Former NFL player and television analyst Warren Sapp has been taking it easy and fishing in the Florida Keys like most retired folks do. However, the one-time bruising defensive star, who knows a little bit about this kind of thing, suffered an injury after a shark took a bite out of his arm while on a recent lobster haul.
TampaBay.com writes:
“It’s simple,” charter captain Jack Carlson wrote via text message while still cleaning up Wednesday afternoon. “He was lobstering with me and a shark bit Sapp while he was grabbing the lobster. He’s OK.”
Carlson’s charter, Two Conchs, posted a photo to Instagram with a photo of a deep, bloody gash to Sapp’s arm. “Warren Sapp attacked by a shark while lobstering,” he wrote, adding the hashtag #epicbattle. “The shark wanted the lobster just as bad as Sapp,” he later wrote on Instagram. “Sapp got the lobster and the Shark got his lick in too.”
Carlson said by phone he was fishing on Florida Bay on Wednesday, about seven miles out from Marathon in 9 feet of water. Sapp was reached for a lobster that a shark — one witness thought it was a small nurse shark, perhaps four feet long — also wanted.
“The sharks hang around those lobster holes, because they feed on the lobster as well,” Carlson said.
No shots at Warren Sapp but say bruh, Red Lobster or Pappadeaux’s got you covered if you’re fiending for some shellfish these days. Get better soon!
We apologize for the graphic nature of the photo, which appears on the following page. Peep the shirt rips too.
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Photo: Instagram
