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| 5th October, 2008 - 7:21 pm |  ESPN - Kansas City tight end Tony Gonzalez broke the NFL's career mark for yards receiving by a tight end Sunday, catching three passes for 17 yards.
The Chiefs lost to the Panthers, 34-0, and afterward the record appeared to mean little to Gonzalez.
"This is a game that a lot of us probably [would] just as soon forget," he said.
Former tight end Shannon Sharpe's 5-year-old record of 10,060 yards was broken when Gonzalez caught a 6-yard pass from Damon Huard late in the first quarter.
"It's bittersweet -- I'm happy for it, don't get me wrong," Gonzalez said. "It took a long time to get [the record], and I've been very fortunate to be around some good offensive coordinators ... great quarterbacks. It's just been a long time, and I'm very fortunate to be able to last that long. So I'm going to take it, take it in stride -- I'm happy for it. But I wish, obviously, if it could have come in a different circumstance, it probably would have been a lot better." [READ] |
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