He was good enough. I believe he was better than Jim Kelly and Warren Moon. If they are in, then Aikman has to be in.
Madden with the highest winning % all time and helped transform brodcasting . ok Moon transformed the QB position . Aikman was a born winner in Dallas !
If Madden were being inducted as a broadcaster, I wouldn't have an issue with it. Warren Moon transformed nothing. In fact, he may be best known for being at the wheel of one of the biggest chokes in NFL history. Moon may have thrown for an insane number of yards, but he never won a thing and he also beat the hell out of his wife. If I had a vote, I'd have never given it to Moon. Aikman is deserving. Reggie White is certainly deserving. Harry Carson unspectacular, but a solid, perennial probowler, so I think he has to make it. A yawner of a HOF class.
Ah, there's that cute little message board line again. You don't have to like him, and you don't have to understand it, but Madden DID change the way color analysts work. He was the first to use a telestrator. He also became a second source of entertainment within the game. There are only a small handful of notable NFL broadcasters in the entire history of the game. Like him or hate him, he's certainly one.
Because the CFL is an inferior league and very few players are able to make the jump from it into the NFL like Moon did. As Sundayjack pointed out, this is a pretty weak induction class but that's exactly why people like Moon and Madden make it in. I may be wrong on this but it seems to me that the NFL hall of fame is more reluctant than Cooperstown to have very small induction classes. Maybe it's because of the Hall of Fame preseason game. In any case a guy like Warren Moon definately benefitted from not having much competition.
I don't have historical proof to back this one up, but probably because most of the great players who could've played in the CFL instead played in the NFL, a much superior league, and if you're going to judge a player, you're best off doing it against the superior competition. With that being said, the grey cups can be used as a supporting arguement for a player, much like Flutie's 3 Cups are used, although not in this Hall of Fame context.
I asked a rhetorical question in post #16. The CFL has its own Hall of Fame. http://www.footballhof.com/index.htm Canadian football, with its huge end zones, different size field, and no fourth downs, is a very different game than what we have in the United States. It garners as much respect with the Hall of Fame Selection Committee as NFL Europe and the Arena Football League.
