Warren Sapp Warren Carlos Sapp ( born December 19 , 1972 ) is a former American football defensive tackle . A Hall of Famer , Sapp played college football for the University of Miami , where he was recognized as a consensus All - American and won multiple awards . Sapp played in the National Football League ( NFL ) from 1995 to 2007 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oakland Raiders . Sapp was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1995 NFL Draft as the 12th overall pick , and played professionally for the Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders . In his nine seasons with the Buccaneers , he earned seven trips to the Pro Bowl and a Super Bowl ring in 2003 . He moved to the Raiders in 2004 . His 96 . 5 career sacks ( 100 , playoffs included ) are the second - highest career sacks for a defensive tackle and the 28th highest overall for a defensive lineman . His 77 sacks with the Buccaneers is the second most in the team ' s history to Lee Roy Selmon ' s 78 . 5 . His career was checkered by controversy from his hard - hitting style of play and occasional verbal outbursts , both on the field and off . Some of these resulted in fines by the league , and he was once ejected from a game for unsportsmanlike conduct . In his first year of eligibility , on February 2 , 2013 , he was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame . The Buccaneers entered him into their Ring of Honor on November 11 , 2013 and retired his # 99 jersey . Sapp became only the second Buccaneer to have his jersey retired , after Lee Roy Selmon . Early years . Sapp was born in Orlando , Florida and raised in Plymouth , Florida by a single mother . During the late 1980s , he was honored for outstanding football play at Apopka High School in Apopka , Florida at linebacker , tight end , place - kicker and punter . He holds school records for sacks , tackles for a loss , and longest field goal . A two - sport athlete in high school , he also played third base on the baseball team and hit a school record 24 home runs his junior year for the Blue Darters . In high school football , his hard tackle of Johnny Damon in a game against Dr . Phillips High School team gave the future major league baseball star a concussion . In 2007 , Sapp was named to the Florida High School Association All - Century Team comprising the top 33 players in a hundred years of high school baseball in his home state . College career . Many top nationally ranked college football programs recruited Sapp , who chose the University of Miami . Converted to defensive lineman while there , he won the Bronko Nagurski Trophy ( for best defensive player ) , the Rotary Lombardi Award ( for best lineman or linebacker ) and the Bill Willis Award ( for best defensive lineman ) , all in 1994 . Professional career . Tampa Bay Buccaneers . After his illustrious college football career at the University of Miami as a defensive standout , Sapp was drafted into the NFL by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first round of the 1995 draft ( as the 12th pick overall ) . Analysts at the time thought he would be drafted much higher , but partially due to reports of multiple failed cocaine and marijuana tests released the night before the draft many teams passed on him . The NFL released a statement strongly denying the rumors , and Sapp today believes an anonymous snitch had intentionally sabotaged his draft chances . Three years later ( in 1998 ) , he signed a contract extension paying $ 36 million over six years . He ran the fastest time in the 40 - yard dash for a defensive tackle ( 4 . 69 sec ) . He was almost immediately given the starting job as Buccaneer right defensive tackle which he held for his entire nine - year stay in Tampa . He finished his rookie season with 27 tackles and one interception and continued to be a prolific , intimidating tackler for the Buccaneers , ( 51 tackles and nine sacks in 1996 , 58 tackles and 10 . 5 sacks in 1997 ) . His Pro Bowl selection in 1997 was the first of seven straight , and he was honored as NFL Defensive Player of the year in 1999 . He flourished in the Bucs ' aggressive Tampa 2 defense , which allowed him to put his devastating combination of size and speed to good use . He disrupted the opposition ' s offense even when double - or even triple - teamed on the line . Super Bowl XXXVII . In 2002 , Sapp helped lead a powerful Tampa Bay team to victory in Super Bowl XXXVII over the Oakland Raiders . He made five tackles and two sacks during that 2002 - 2003 postseason , and was a key component in the league - leading Buccaneer defense . Oakland Raiders . In 2004 , Sapp was reportedly interested in accepting a contract offer from the Cincinnati Bengals for four years worth US $ 16 million , but on March 20 he announced he had agreed to terms on a seven - year , $ 36 . 6 million contract with the Oakland Raiders , the same team he had routed in the Super Bowl in early 2003 . He started all 16 games in his first season in Oakland , splitting time at defensive end and defensive tackle , recording 30 tackles ( 18 solo ) and 2 . 5 sacks and recovering two fumbles after having lost an estimated 20 pounds before joining the Raiders for the 2004 season . His 2005 season got off to a great beginning back in his familiar DT position . He started the first ten games of the season with 29 tackles ( 26 of them solo ) , and finished second on the team to Derrick Burgess with five sacks before being sidelined for the last six games of 2005 with a shoulder injury . He returned to his All - Pro form in 2006 . Sapp and the defense were one of very few bright spots for the 2006 Raiders . He had 10 sacks to go along with 32 tackles ( 16 solo ) and one forced fumble . He lost 49 lb before the 2007 season , and recorded 37 tackles ( 24 solo ) , 2 sacks and 2 forced fumbles . On January 3 , 2008 , Sapp told Raider owner Al Davis over the phone that he would retire and confirmed this on his website qbkilla . com in just two words : " I ' M DONE ! " The retirement became official on March 4 , 2008 . Legacy . At the time of his retirement , Sapp was one of only six defensive players in NFL history to make the Pro Bowl , be named Defensive Player of the Year and win a Super Bowl ( or pre - Super - Bowl NFL title ) . The others are Mean Joe Greene , Jack Lambert , Lawrence Taylor , Reggie White and Sapp ' s former teammate , Derrick Brooks . Michael Strahan and Ray Lewis have since joined the list . He is now reckoned as the prototype three - technique defensive tackle , and ever since his retirement NFL teams scouting defensive tackles have reportedly been looking for a " Baby Sapp . " He was selected to seven Pro Bowls , was named a First - Team All - Pro four times and a Second - Team All - Pro twice , voted to the 1990s and 2000s All - Decade Teams and , most impressively , earned Defensive Player of the Year honors after an amazing 16 . 5 - sack season in 2000 . Although he left the Bucs as a free agent after the 2003 season to finish his career with the Raiders , he ' ll be most remembered as one of the leaders of the imposing Buc defenses of the late 1990s and early 2000s . Controversies . Mike Sherman confrontation . On November 24 , 2002 , at Raymond James Stadium , Sapp was strongly criticized for a blindsided hit on the Green Bay Packers ' Chad Clifton during a Buccaneer interception return , when he hit Clifton as the latter was jogging downfield , away from the main action , inflicting a severe pelvic injury and hospitalizing Clifton for almost a week , after which he couldn ' t walk unaided for the next five weeks . In 2005 , the NFL Competition Committee agreed on new guidelines for " unnecessary roughness " , making hits such as Sapp ' s on Clifton illegal . In an exchange caught by television cameras following the game , Packer coach Mike Sherman approached Sapp and said to him , " That was a chickenshit play . " In response , Sapp screamed repeatedly at Sherman : " You ' re so tough ? Put on a fucking jersey ! " Sapp later called Sherman " a lying , shit - eating hound . . . . If I was 25 years old and didn ' t have a kid and a conscience , I would have given him an ass - kicking right there at the 30 - yard line . " Sherman later added , " The joviality that existed after [ the hit ] when a guy ' s lying on the ground , with numbness in his legs and fingers , I just thought that wasn ' t appropriate for any NFL player . " The skipping incidents . During pregame warmups for the December 23 , 2002 Monday Night Football game at Raymond James Stadium , Warren skipped among the Pittsburgh Steelers as they warmed up . Steeler running back Jerome Bettis shoved him , touching off a heated argument between the two teams . Sapp was not fined for the incident , but it added to his controversial image and he felt he had been made an example by the NFL by being fined for a second Monday night skipping incident ( described below ) . " That ' s all this is about , " said Sapp . " In my nine years in this league , no one ' s been fined for verbally abusing officials . It ' s unprecedented . " The Buccaneers had been earlier ridiculed by Steelers ' Lee Flowers as being " paper champions . " Despite losing to the Steelers in that nationally televised contest , Sapp and the Buccaneers went on to win Super Bowl XXXVII five weeks later . In 2003 , during an October 6 Monday Night Football game against the Indianapolis Colts , Sapp was scolded for skipping through and disrupting the Colts , who were spread out on the field stretching during pregame warmups . Much anticipation and national interest going into the game had been generated by the return of former head coach Tony Dungy to Tampa . The Colts wound up erasing a 21 - point deficit in the final four minutes and defeating the Buccaneers 38 - 35 in overtime , sending the defending champions into a downslide . The next Sunday , October 12 , 2003 , before the Bucs took on the Washington Redskins , Sapp , while running onto the field , bumped into an NFL referee and drew a $ 50 , 000 fine . His response : " It ' s a slave system . Make no mistake about it . Slavemaster say you can ' t do it , don ' t do it . They ' ll make an example out of you . " Ejection for unsportsmanlike conduct . On December 23 , 2007 , Sapp got ejected after an altercation with the officials near the end of the second quarter of the Raiders ' game at Jacksonville . The incident began when linesman Jerry Bergman mistakenly assumed that the Raiders would decline a ten - yard Jaguar penalty . Sapp , the defensive captain , shot back at referee Jerome Boger , that the Raiders wanted to accept the penalty . The conversation became heated , with Sapp gesturing and swearing , provoking Boger to flag him for unsportsmanlike conduct . But Sapp and the rest of the Raider defense continued to mouth off at the officials , resulting in a second unsportsmanlike against Sapp and a third unsportsmanlike against teammate Derrick Burgess . Finally , the coaches ran onto the field and , along with the officials , began physically separating the disgruntled players . Boger claimed that Sapp had " bumped " him in the process , while Sapp denied any physical contact . In any event , Boger then levied a third unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against Sapp ( fourth against the team ) and ejected him . The league eventually fined him $ 75 , 000 , and Burgess $ 25 , 000 ( i . e . , $ 25 , 000 for each unsportsmanlike penalty ) . Personal life . In January 1998 , Sapp married Jamiko Vaughn . The couple had two children , daughter Mercedes in 1998 and Warren Carlos II in 2000 . Activities . Sapp , Devin Bush and a developer created an " Urban Solutions Group " in 2006 to construct low - income housing in Fort Pierce , Florida . The PNC Bank loaned the group money , but by 2008 the real estate market tanked and the project ended in failure . On August 19 , 2008 , Sapp was hired as a studio analyst for " Inside the NFL " on Showtime . In the fall of 2008 , paired with professional dancer Kym Johnson , he was runner - up on " Season 7 " of " Dancing With The Stars " . He is currently working for NFL Network as an analyst featured on NFL Total Access and " NFL GameDay Morning " . In the summer of 2012 he released a book titled " Sapp Attack " through St . Martins Publishing . In June 2012 , Sapp teamed up with the NOC ( Network Of Champions ) , a YouTube premium content channel , to produce a TV show series called " Judge Sapp " . In Warren Sapp ' s court , real people resolve real issues before one of sports ' most outspoken personalities . Unlike the People ' s Court , Judge Sapp features DJ - Olympic snowboarder Louie Vito and determines settlements with a casino - style wheel . He also participated in Fox ' s dating game show " The Choice " . In January 2013 , Sapp joined forces with bioengineer and sleep apnea expert Dr . Jonathan Greenburg to raise global awareness about the importance of getting tested and treated for snoring and obstructive sleep apnea . The global awareness health initiative , Sleep Apnea Prevention Project ( S . A . P . P . ) has since released a series of awareness videos documenting Sapp undergoing sleep apnea testing and treatment . Sapp continues to be at the forefront of sleep apnea awareness today . In December 2013 , Sapp teamed up Code . org along with thought leaders Mark Zuckerberg , President Obama and Bill Gates to bring about Computer Science Education awareness with the launch of the " Hour of Code " initiative . Domestic battery charges . On February 7 , 2010 , Sapp was arrested in South Florida and charged with domestic battery while in Florida as an analyst for the NFL Network ' s coverage of Super Bowl XLIV , but following the arrest the NFL Network cancelled his appearance . On March 24 , however , the charges against Sapp were dropped . Bankruptcy . In 2010 , PNC bank was awarded a judgment of $ 988 , 691 . 99 , and in December 2011 filed a monthly lien of $ 33 , 333 against Sapp ' s $ 45 , 000 NFL Network paycheck . He also owed the Internal Revenue Service $ 853 , 003 from income in 2006 and $ 89 , 775 for 2010 . He was $ 876 , 000 behind on alimony and child support for his former spouse , owed $ 68 , 738 for unpaid property taxes in Windermere and owed money to attorneys , friends and a speech therapist as well . On April 7 , 2012 , the Associated Press reported that Sapp had filed for bankruptcy in an effort to discharge debt from failed businesses . In these Chapter 7 filings , he claimed to have lost his University of Miami championship rings and his Buccaneer Super Bowl ring . The balance in his checking and savings accounts was said to be less than $ 1 , 000 . He claimed no credit card debt and owns no automobiles , but owes National Car Rental $ 90 , 685 through his business , Nine - Nine LLC . Court filings indicated Sapp ' s assets totaled $ 6 . 45 million against a debt of $ 6 . 7 million . His monthly income was reported as $ 115 , 861 . On November 1 , 2012 , Sapp ' s 10 , 000 - square - foot house in Windermere was auctioned off .