Comments on: Only two classes before 1991 have no Hall of Famers

By: jjared1101

jjared1101 — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:47:54 +0000

Big Tex:
Great of you to not mention that Bo holds the record for yards per carry. No, not you. You only mention total yards even though he only played part time.
He would have been the best, deal with it.
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You take his avg yds per carry from his only 4 years which were prime years and call him the best? Felix Jones has an avg of 7.4 yds per carry his first two years in the league. Are you going to call him one of the greatest too? Funny stuff.

By: comment_submission_error

comment_submission_error — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:29:15 +0000

First overall pick in 1986 Bo Jackson saw his brief but promising career derailed via a routine tackle that required a hip replacement.
It’s the Hall of Fame. Bo was famous. He was so good Marcus Allen had to block for him. If it was really about fame, Bo would be in. The NFL should start the Hall of Longevity, move guys like Warren Moon over there, and replace them with guys like Jackson.

By: joetoronto

joetoronto — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:28:51 +0000

By: Big Tex

Big Tex — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:51:05 +0000

Can we lose the “Bo Jackson was the greatest” talk? Yes he was big and fast. So what? Total number of 1,000 yard seasons? Zero! Career rushing total? 2,752 yards or to put it differently only a few hundred yards more in his career than Eric Dickerson had in ONE season and an average below 700 yards a season. High water mark for TDs in a season? 5 with a career total of 16. There’s a handful of RBs who bested 16 TDs in one season. It’s a shame he got hurt, but a handful of highlight reel runs doesn’t make you one of the greatest ever.

By: cowboyjesc

cowboyjesc — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:30:41 +0000

doesnt Haley have the most super bowl rings .. or 5 in a ow or something ?? as a Cowboy fan .. the man is the #1 reason that pushed us to get those rings in the 90′s..

By: bobbinski1229

bobbinski1229 — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:07:59 +0000

Yea GBfanforever… You shut your whorish mouth… Doubting Monk like that….

By: TheSleepness

TheSleepness — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:04:04 +0000

i’m with GB fan…the nfl hall is quickly becoming a joke….art monk? Michael Irvin? great players but not HALL OF FAMERS!

By: efangule

efangule — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:03:37 +0000

Complaining about Art Monk getting into the HoF is like complaining that Walter Payton got in.
If you do either, then you simply don’t know anything about football.

By: We need linemen

We need linemen — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:26:22 +0000

Bo Jackson was amazing, and he did what he did playing football part-time. It would have been great to see what he could have done if he had dedicated himself football.
Otherwise, a lot of good players joined the league in ’86, but none of them quite good enough for the Hall of Fame. The surprising thing for me is there aren’t more years like that.

By: PantherfanWV

PantherfanWV — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:09:31 +0000

Art Monk?!?!?!
Of all people in the hall you could question you choose Art Monk?!?! This proves you either know nothing about football or you are a kid that never watched Monk play.
15 seasons which include Three Super Bowl wins and only three losing seasons. When he retired in 1992 he held every record available for a reciever! He was the first reciever ever to log 900 catches. Over his career he converted 2/3 of his catches into first downs. According to NFL films his induction to the hall of fame got the longest standing ovation of anyone in history at over 4 min.

By: QotSA

QotSA — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:02:23 +0000

Charles Haley’s dong is in the Hall of Fame.

By: TimTheEnchanter

TimTheEnchanter — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:00:07 +0000

FWIW, the 1984 players you listed were all part of the USFL supplemental draft, not the standard NFL draft.

By: joetoronto

joetoronto — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:50:35 +0000

Bo would have been the best ever hands down, he was THAT talented.
What a damn shame.

By: FOOSBALL

FOOSBALL — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:27:17 +0000

Offerdahl is always overlooked, I think he went to five probowls in his first 6 years before he had some sort of injury. I think he tore his abdomen muscles of something weird like that….imagine if say he put in 9-10 years in the league? He would have had 7-8 probowls and been a lock in my mind. Classic middle linebacker.

By: mpoles

mpoles — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:27:39 +0000

Of the players you list from that draft, the one who stands out for me as Hall of Fame material is Tom Rathman. Arguably the best at his position for many years, multiple Super Bowl rings etc. He probably won’t get considered because they didn’t have Pro Bowl blocking fullbacks back then and because blocking fullback isn’t considered an important position.

By: Blazer

Blazer — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:17:31 +0000

That was one (like JT from Washington) you turn away from the TV…
OUCH! I remember that one you could hear the bone snap over the crowd noise! No Joke

By: Dont Taze Me Bro

Dont Taze Me Bro — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:18:55 +0000

According to ESPN, Tim Tebow already has 2009 on the board.

By: TheOne

TheOne — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:16:13 +0000

I am lost on this. Didn’t the 1989 class have like 3 big names? QB Troy Aikman, RB Barry Sanders and LB Derrick Thomas? I’m pretty sure those guys are before the 1991 draft. Well unless 3 different guys came from the 89 draft just had the same superstar names lol.

By: steelerhypocrite

steelerhypocrite — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:16:29 +0000

Without a doubt, the greatest RB ever was Bo Jackson…too bad he got injured. Besides, did you ever try tackling him in Super Tecmo Bowl? Good Luck…but then again, Marion Butts was good in that game.

By: AutumnWind999

AutumnWind999 — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:47:24 +0000

Some of you seriously think Vai Sikahema is a Hall of Famer? Come on. Nothing against the guy. An exciting special teams player. An excellent return man. But you need to re-check what it takes to get into the Hall of Fame. Look at Charles Haley there for one. An elite pass-rusher of his era with 5 SB rings and he’s not in yet. Cris Carter, Ken Stabler, Lester Hayes, Ray Guy, Ricky Watters, Roger Craig and many others who dominated the game have not yet been inducted and may never be.

By: bwisnasky

bwisnasky — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:44:03 +0000

steely devil hab says:
July 10, 2010 9:57 PM
Napoleon McCallum
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Wasn’t he the RB who had that terrible injury, hyper-extending his knee THE OTHER WAY…when he got stood up in a tackle?
That was one (like JT from Washington) you turn away from the TV…
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Yes.. and if you really want to relive it, you can find the video out there.. was against the 49ers… Ken Norton tackled him and then I saw the most disturbing injury I’ve ever witnessed live on television….. Hell of a running back though.. damned shame after serving the country… he was a Navy guy, that his career finally had a chance to blossom…. Not HOF worthy by any stretch in my opinion… but I don’t agree with most of who goes in the Hall anymore….

By: steely devil hab

steely devil hab — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:57:17 +0000

Napoleon McCallum
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Wasn’t he the RB who had that terrible injury, hyper-extending his knee THE OTHER WAY…when he got stood up in a tackle?
That was one (like JT from Washington) you turn away from the TV…

By: bake

bake — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:51:54 +0000

Slow news day, huh?

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:50:45 +0000

nothumbs: “1958 doesn’t seem to have one either according to the HOF’s site.”
Thats wrong 1958 has Jim Taylor, Ray Nitschke, Bobby Mitchell, and John Madden (as a coach).

By: GBfanForever

GBfanForever — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:43:24 +0000

“The three in the HOF from that draft – Young, Zimmerman and White – were actually taken in the supplemental draft and not the “regular draft”.”
I think those three all played in the USFL too making it even more complicated.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:38:09 +0000

Haley should be in(already) soon…

By: nothumbs

nothumbs — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:33:27 +0000

1958 doesn’t seem to have one either according to the HOF’s site.

By: DirtDawg55

DirtDawg55 — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:32:28 +0000

The three in the HOF from that draft – Young, Zimmerman and White – were actually taken in the supplemental draft and not the “regular draft”.

By: SkolVikings

SkolVikings — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:18:11 +0000

If Vai Sikahema is not elected, no one should be. That guy was pure adrenaline.

By: GBfanForever

GBfanForever — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:16:16 +0000

I think the bar to get into the NFL HOF has been set too low. There are so many really good but not great players who have gotten in recently. Maybe I’m being harsh but Art Monk epitomizes this. Nothing against him but I think the Hall should be for the truly superb players. Suddenly having many many solid seasons instead of ever achieving true dominance for a few becomes the criteria. I know I’m biased toward my team but I think Sterling Sharpe should get more consideration in this respect because he had 3 or 4 very good seasons and two other seasons where he was truly the most dominating receiver in the game. So he missed out on racking up a few 60-70 catch/ 1000 yards ho-hum seasons that could have padded his resume, big deal. You know what we’ll get instead? We’ll get freaking TO in the hall who had a couple great seasons and then piled up the slightly above average seasons so his career stats suddenly look really impressive. What do you think is more Hall worthy, quantity or quality?