Hall of Fame
Major League Baseball and Pro Football select Hall of Fame inductees very differently. Baseball has some 545 selectors, football has 40. The latter has the bad taste of publicizing 17 finalists for 4-7 spots in the Hall of Fame; a player must get 80% of the votes. These players will then be tortured for the following month before the inductees are announced on Super Bowl weekend.
Looking at the list, I'm fairly convinced that at least nine deserve to get in and will get in either this year or eventually:
1. Ray Guy - because he's acknowledged as best punter ever. If he doesn't get in, no punter ever will.
2. Michael Irvin
3. Bruce Matthews
4. Art Monk
5. Paul Tagliabue
6. Derrick Thomas
7. Thurman Thomas
8. Roger Wehrli
9. Gary Zimmerman
posted by Unknown @ 6:09 PM
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Ray Guy's stats, as amazing as they were, were decimated by the Raiders' lack of a decent field goal kicker during his career. He made quite a few punts of 30 yards or less because of having to punt from within the 30.
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