ALL HE EVER DOES IS NOT GET INDUCTED: The fifteen finalists for induction for the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year, up to five of whom will be selected, are RB Jerome Bettis; WRs Tim Brown, Cris Carter and Andre Reed; OLs Larry Allen (1st-time eligible), Jonathan Ogden (ditto), and Will Shields; DEs Charles Haley and Michael Strahan (first-timer); DT Warren Sapp (ditto); LB Kevin Greene; CB Aeneas Williams; and Bill Parcells, Ed DeBartolo, Jr., and Art Modell. Semifinalists missing the cut include Morten Andersen, Terrell Davis, Steve Tasker, and Paul Tagliabue.
[My ballot, I guess: Brown, Carter, Allen, Williams, Parcells. But there's a lot of good choices.]
Outraged on behalf of Morten Andersen.
ReplyDeleteI expect to be outraged when Sapp makes it in. Man, I do not like that guy.
And if Strahan gets in, does Brett Favre have to lay down in front of him as he steps to the podium?
ReplyDeleteAnd Ray Guy continues to be ignored.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the one way the Football Hall of Fame is superior, and this is worth noting every year? Players go in as themselves. None of this going in as a team member BS that looks dumber and dumber every year at the Baseball HOF.
ReplyDeleteWow, that is a lot of worthy candidates. Without a five-vote limit, I'd probably say Brown, Carter, Reed, Allen, Ogden, Sapp, Greene, Williams, Parcells, DeBartolo, Andersen (ineligible), and Guy (ineligible). But I don't understand why anybody outside the state of Maryland would vote in favor of Modell. If he's inducted, it will only show that voters are insiders who care more about currying favor with NFL ownership than about fans of football.
ReplyDeleteI almost referred to him as "frequent litigant."
ReplyDeleteI understand the impact owners -- and even commissioners -- can have on a sport and I understand that it's not the Football Players Hall of Fame, but the Football Hall of Fame. Yet every time I see owners and commissioners in the mix for Halls of Fame, I help but think it'd be like Sam Walton putting himself up for the Fort Smith, AR Wal Mart Employee of the Week.
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