It sounds as if Shannon Sharpe should have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.
The Pro Football Hall of Famer revealed during a recent appearance on the “Funky Friday” podcast hosted by Cam Newton why he doesn’t sleep at women’s homes anymore.
It was two separate occasions that eventually led the Hall of Fame tight end to change his ways, both of which he explained led to unwanted drama with women.
Sharpe first mentioned the night that he was drafted by the Broncos and he was returning to Georgia after the draft.
He was getting back into town late and didn’t want to startle his grandmother by walking into the home late at night, which prompted Sharpe to call a woman to see if she was single and if it would be OK for him to crash at her place.
“Cam, something told, ‘Boy, keep your clothes on.’ So, I got on shorts and I got on a T-shirt,” Sharpe explained on the episode, according to Fox News. “Man, have you ever had sleep paralysis? You can hear things, but you can’t move … . I can hear, and it’s getting louder, it’s getting louder, and they’re arguing. So, by this time – boom! The door flies off the hinges. … So, I’m jumping up like, ‘Hey what’s up, boy, what’s it about to be?’ I said, ‘Oh lord, he’s got some bodies on his resume.’ Yeah, I’m talking about those kind of bodies.’”
While the man didn’t seem to be angry with Sharpe – he said that the man had actually been a fan – the man had been “tired of this ‘B’ lying,” referring to the woman.
“I’m saying to myself, ‘Me, too.’ Cam, man, I put my shoes on and booked it out of there,” Sharpe continued.
Sharpe had been drafted in the seventh round of the 1990 NFL Draft after playing all four years at Savannah State University.
Despite the rocky experience that particular time, it wasn’t enough to keep Sharpe from making the same mistake a second time three years later.
Sharpe had been back at Savannah State for homecoming when the Broncos had a bye week during the 1993 NFL season and he met up with a woman while there.
Once again, the situation was flipped upside down.
“I set my stuff down. And I’m looking at the door handle, it’s turning. … Dude come in. He got that [AK-47]. Oh lord, have mercy. I said, ‘Lord.’ And he look at me, and he said, ‘My man.’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ He’s about to ask me if I’m Sharpe. I said, ‘Yeah.’ He said, ‘I thought so.’ I said, ‘My man, is this your people?’ He said, ‘Yeah. Two years,’” Sharpe said.
“I said, ‘My man, I ain’t know.’ I said, ‘You know who I am now.’ I said, ‘Man, my bad. You saved me.’ Because if I had not been [interrupted], I ain’t telling this story right now.”
That was the last time Sharpe attempted to stay at a woman’s house, he claimed.
“I have not closed my eyes at another woman’s house in 31 years,” Sharpe said.
Sharpe played 12 seasons with the Broncos and two with the Ravens during his NFL career.
Sharpe, who won three Super Bowl titles, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.