Strahan entered Week 17 of the 2001 season needing one sack against the Packers to eclipse the mark set by former Jets QB menace/incorrigible head case Mark Gastineau. Strahan got the record ... with considerable help from Brett Favre, who audibled out of a run play, rolled to his right and awkwardly slid right into Strahan's feet.
It was generally agreed by most to be weak sauce. Strahan has said the ensuing controversy adversely affected his enjoyment of the record, but he has no regrets. This is an opinion Vikings star Jared Allen can get behind.
Allen, of course, came within half a sack of breaking Strahan's record this season. He had 3.5 sacks in Week 17 against the Bears and he would've had no issue if Josh McCown did him a solid.ˇ°Absolutely. A sack is a sack is a sack," Allen said Tuesday on WHB in Kansas City (via SportsRadioInterview.com). "There was about three times when I hit him when he just got rid of the ball. I tell you what, all he had to do was hook slide for me on one of them."
Let's hope Allen -- or anyone, really -- breaks Strahan's mark without any strings attached. The sack record needs its dignity back.
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