Here is the latest class to enter the HOF: Tim Brown Jerome Bettis Charles Haley Junior Seau Will Shields Bill Polian (contributor) Ron Wolf (contributor) Mick Tinglehoff (senior nominee) Clearly the voters were impressed by the new GM and coaches added by the Jets this year. Nabbing Brett Favre and Reggie White probably didn't hurt either.
Really not a bad HOF class. I was pretty skeptical when the announced the finalists, but somehow Tim Brown, Will Shields, and Charles Haley made the cut (thankfully), and Bettis is the only guy on the list that I would have left off.
I'll always remember Tim Brown catching his 1000th career pass on MNF against us and they stopped the game and brought his mother out on a golf cart. As if he was the 1st guy to ever catch 1000 balls. Fucking Raiders....
I'm very happy to see local celebrity Ron Wolf make it, but this might be the worst HOF class I've ever seen in my lifetime. Lynch? robbed Harrison? Robbed Pace? Robbed Warner? ROBBED One of the CBS Radio hosts tonight said it was stupid that they have a limit, and I couldn't agree more. Some guys (like Reed from last year) wait way too long, because there is a limit. If you deserve it, you should get in, PERIOD. Fuck waiting 15 years.
Pace and Warner got jobbed they should have gone in together this year bumping Bettis and Brown. If Cris Carter had to wait four or five years to get in Harrison can wait a year or two. Will Shields and Charles Haley should have been in already, clearing the backlog at Lynches expense is something I can live with.
I don't exactly agree, but I respect your opinion. I'm only 26, so naturally I want the guys I've actually seen make it in. I do like that they have the mandatory senior vote, where a guy not well known among modern day public makes it in. It just sucks seeing guys I know deserve it not make it in, over front office guys, and 70 year olds.
Am I the only one that takes pride in the far superior Martin making it in years before Bettis? I got a novel of a text message when this was announced yesterday about how "it should have been the other way around" from a Steelers friend of mine.
Ron Wolf stays one more year, he trades for Brett Favre as a Jet and we win a Super Bowl and compete for many. Fuck Tim Brown, he stole the Heisman from Don McPerson in 1987 and the only reason was because he was a Golden Domer. _
Bettis and Haley seem like a stretch to me. there is too much emphasis on role players who won a super bowl. think Warner and Pace deserve it, Coryell was a significant contributor, and Klecko really should be in with the senior vote at this point.
true, it is a shitload of rings for sure. but he was also bouncing between 2 dynasty teams. if he played comparably for the Browns and Oilers, would he be in the discussion? he was an excellent player, but i liked a couple other candidates more. guess its no harm no foul, as he would get in at some point anyway.
It amazes me that Klecko is not in the Hall of Fame. This man was a difference maker game in and game out. Pro Bowl player at 3 different defensive positions. I can go on and on.... you all know what a player he was. No need to preach to the choir on this topic. The HOF voting committee really ought to change every few years to get some fresh ideas and look at all the stats on both sides of the ball. Unfortunately, even at this level of awarding NFL greats, politics comes into play. I do think Warner was equally screwed. His stats and records speak for themselves. His personal life and struggles along the way to NFL greatness, while not qualifying as reason for his entrance into the HOF, is still a wonderful story. He is one of Life's good guys. In a time of so much negative and embarrassing news around the NFL, Kurt warner would have been a little a ray of sunshine. He would have been a real role model and example for the younger generation. Once again the NFL just does not get it. But then again, with all the money they make, they can easily spit in the wind and laugh it off.
Another guy who goes on to accomplish great things as an ex-Jet One thing I am pretty sure of at least: Idzik won't ever be looked at as "the one that got away."
