dogwelder Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Full list according to PFT is Favre, DeBartolo, Stabler, Greene, Dungy, Harrison, Pace and Dick Stanfel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Two guys representing the team I cheer for made it, so yay for that. Good on them to vote in Stabler when he's no longer around to care. And even if he was still with us, he may be too far gone to understand what was happening. No TO is a total joke. What's the holdup--that he's an asshole? If that's a problem, 90% of the guy in the Hall shouldn't be enshrined. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 No TO is a total joke. What's the holdup--that he's an asshole? If that's a problem, 90% of the guy in the Hall shouldn't be enshrined. Well if the hold up is that he was an asshole then it makes the Harrison nomination even more confusing. I mean TO was a jerk at times but at least people don't think he shot anyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Maybe this can lead to kevin greene being put in the wwf hof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 The more I think about it the more I'm OK with Dungy going in. He only had one losing season as a coach, and pretty much did the impossible by making Tampa a perennial contender. Additionally, he gave more black coaches opportunities than anyone else. The Rooney Rule becomes more of a mockery every season, because most of the NFL pretends that they can only find the same two or three black people. Dungy's coaching tree was basically a one stop shop for black coaching candidates. Every black head coach that made it to the Super Bowl is either Tony Dungy or someone who coached under Tony Dungy. Putting black coaches in a position to prove their worth is probably his biggest contribution to football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 No TO is a total joke. What's the holdup--that he's an asshole? If that's a problem, 90% of the guy in the Hall shouldn't be enshrined. Well if the hold up is that he was an asshole then it makes the Harrison nomination even more confusing. I mean TO was a jerk at times but at least people don't think he shot anyone Dont be a jerk but its okay to be ...Possibly a murderer Homophobic Bribe a governor and los your team Send dick pics to female 'reporter' Etc All from the same football industrial complex that continues to deny and obfuscate CTE research ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 I was surprised that Orlando Pace was picked for the HOF because I thought he had been there for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 As much as I hate his Buckeye guts, Pace was a fucking BEAST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Harrison in but not Owens? Get the fuck out of here. Owens is the 2nd greatest wide receiver all of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 "You can be black and good but you better not celebrate about it" TO didn't get in for the same reason people dislike Cam Newton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Honestly Owens was the best player in the whole potential class. Top 2 at his position. Favre isn't even a top 10 QB. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 The more I think about it the more I'm OK with Dungy going in. He only had one losing season as a coach, and pretty much did the impossible by making Tampa a perennial contender. Additionally, he gave more black coaches opportunities than anyone else. The Rooney Rule becomes more of a mockery every season, because most of the NFL pretends that they can only find the same two or three black people. Dungy's coaching tree was basically a one stop shop for black coaching candidates. Every black head coach that made it to the Super Bowl is either Tony Dungy or someone who coached under Tony Dungy. Putting black coaches in a position to prove their worth is probably his biggest contribution to football.You've done a great job of selling me on a guy I've never considered deserving. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincey Greene Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 TO didn't play the game the right way. He should have been a class guy like Harrison. There's a stand up dude in every sense of the word. Went in, did his job, didn't draw attention to himself. That's such a part of his DNA that he didn't even come to the ceremony! That's the sort of guy I want my kids looking up to, not a boisterous, self assured and self centered braggart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Now that character clearly isn't a mitigating factor any longer, I'm sure that Randy Moss will breeze in with no problem when he comes up in a year or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Moss will probably pretend to moon someone and Joe Buck will go on about it being the most classless act in NFL history for 15 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 TO didn't play the game the right way. He should have been a class guy like [redacted]. There's a stand up dude in every sense of the word. Went in, did his job, didn't draw attention to himself. That's such a part of his DNA that he didn't even come to the ceremony! That's the sort of guy I want my kids looking up to, not a boisterous, self assured and self centered braggart. It is funny how not calling attention to yourself works in so many walks of life. I wonder where that guy I never heard of learned the value of being lethal, but quiet? T.O. not getting in is ridiculous. I don't think anyone could credibly argue that he isn't top 5 all time at his position. The only person I can say for sure was better than him was Jerry Rice, everyone else is up for debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincey Greene Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 TO didn't play the game the right way. He should have been a class guy like [redacted]. There's a stand up dude in every sense of the word. Went in, did his job, didn't draw attention to himself. That's such a part of his DNA that he didn't even come to the ceremony! That's the sort of guy I want my kids looking up to, not a boisterous, self assured and self centered braggart.It is funny how not calling attention to yourself works in so many walks of life. I wonder where that guy I never heard of learned the value of being lethal, but quiet? T.O. not getting in is ridiculous. I don't think anyone could credibly argue that he isn't top 5 all time at his position. The only person I can say for sure was better than him was Jerry Rice, everyone else is up for debate. Well done on the [redacted]. Look, if TO had been a little nicer to (questionable) quarterbacks and didn't celebrate so much (after scoring touchdowns) and had Played The Game The Right Way he could be great like Brett Favre who showed no emotion whatsoever and never had any off the field stuff. It's not the Hall of Ego, it's the hall of fame. (TO is second only to Steve Smith as my favorite player of all time.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 In a vacuum, TO gets in before Harrison does. Really, Drew Rosenhaus tainted his career in the name of his own greed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMN Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Not sure if I said this here, but, now that Snake is most deservedly in (although he deserved it in his lifetime), I'm selling tickets for the Jim Plunkett to Canton train, he's the only guy to start, and win, two Super Bowls and not be in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 I know he choked like a dog on a chicken bone in the playoffs, but Marty Schottenheimer has 200 wins, and isn't in? But Tony Dungee is Peter King's buddy, so that makes him better. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 I know he choked like a dog on a chicken bone in the playoffs, but Marty Schottenheimer has 200 wins, and isn't in? But Tony Dungee is Peter King's buddy, so that makes him better. . . . I'm a Marty guy. I also think that Marty is the coach you get when you have a young team that needs to learn how to win, and you need to get him the hell away from your team once they figure it out. If you could get him to coach your team Monday through Saturday and bring in a substitute on Sundays he'd have multiple Super Bowls, but you can't do that. He just never made the right in game adjustments in the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 I know he choked like a dog on a chicken bone in the playoffs, but Marty Schottenheimer has 200 wins, and isn't in? But Tony Dungee is Peter King's buddy, so that makes him better. . . .I'm a Marty guy. I also think that Marty is the coach you get when you have a young team that needs to learn how to win, and you need to get him the hell away from your team once they figure it out. If you could get him to coach your team Monday through Saturday and bring in a substitute on Sundays he'd have multiple Super Bowls, but you can't do that. He just never made the right in game adjustments in the playoffs. Andy Reid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 I know he choked like a dog on a chicken bone in the playoffs, but Marty Schottenheimer has 200 wins, and isn't in? But Tony Dungee is Peter King's buddy, so that makes him better. . . .I'm a Marty guy. I also think that Marty is the coach you get when you have a young team that needs to learn how to win, and you need to get him the hell away from your team once they figure it out. If you could get him to coach your team Monday through Saturday and bring in a substitute on Sundays he'd have multiple Super Bowls, but you can't do that. He just never made the right in game adjustments in the playoffs. Andy Reid? I think I'd rather have Marty, frankly. I know he played really tight, but Andy can't manage timeouts or the two minute drill either. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogwelder Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Hell, how is Tom Flores still not in the Hall? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 If you wanted more confirmation that football folks - like baseball writers - make it all about themselves TO kept out because "he was disruptive in the locker room" “I’ll take you inside the room on this, and it was the second longest discussion we had in the room other that Eddie DeBartolo,” Gary Myers of the New York Daily News told The Dan Patrick Show. “The bottom line on T.O. is he was so disruptive. Now with L.T., you don’t count the off-the-field stuff. That’s a mandate from the Hall of Fame. It’s only what you’ve done on the field. The argument that was made in the room, and I agree with this, is what T.O. did in the locker room is part of –” “That counts?” asked guest host Ross Tucker. “Why don’t you just evaluate what’s inside the white lines?” “Because I think that the locker room is an extension of that,” Myers said. “But how do you really know what happened in the locker room?” Tucker said. “But he tore teams apart.” “But how do you really know that?” “He’s a Hall of Fame player that five teams couldn’t wait to get rid of,” Myers said. “So what does that tell you about how disruptive he was?” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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