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by Bob Wolfley on Saturday, July 28th 2012
Guess he changed his mind
I don't want to copy the whole article. There's a lot more after the click. Jerry Rice was also pissed he didn't call him after this hit(3m40s in):quote:The hit occurred after Favre threw an interception, which cornerback Brian Kelly of Tampa Bay began to return.
Sapp went in search of someone to block.
"On television it appeared like I came across the field and blindsided Clifton, who didn't even look like he was in the play," Sapp writes. "And then I did a little dance to celebrate that hit. That's what it looked like. . . Basically, the impression was that I had mugged an innocent bystander."
But those television images are misleading, Sapp contends.
When a defense intercepts, "instinctively the first thing you do is look for someone to block," Sapp says. "When the team is looking at the game films the next morning, trust me, everybody is going to be watching to see who got the biggest hit on the interception. If you don't hit someone after an interception you are going to be called out in that room."
Sapp says the first player he looks to hit on an interception return is the quarterback because "the protection he is granted by the rules is gone" and "it's like Superman meeting kryptonite."
Sapp says "Favre took one look at me and started running straight for the sideline" because "he knew that the safest place for him was out of bounds, where he wasn't going to get hit, and would survive to pass again."
Sapp says since he couldn't block Favre he went looking for "the left tackle and then the center, in that order."
It is common among offensive lineman in the NFL to have self-imposed fines "for not being in the frame," according to Sapp...continue
