2024 Pro Football Hall of Fame Class

As you're doubtless aware, I was joking. The truth is, the NFL has never much cared about its institutional memory. so we get these awkward attempts at decades-late make-up calls

 

The final 12 Seniors Committee from which they likely pick three;

Ken Anderson
Maxie Baughan
Roger Craig
Randy Gradishar
Joe Jacoby
Albert Lewis
Steve McMichael
Eddie Meador
Art Powell
Sterling Sharpe
Otis Taylor
Al Wistert

The final 12 Coach/Contributors from which they pick one:

Tom Coughlin
Mike Holmgren
Frank “Bucko” Kilroy
Robert Kraft
Buddy Parker
Dan Reeves
Art Rooney Jr.
Marty Schottenheimer
Mike Shanahan
Clark Shaughnessy
Lloyd Wells
John Wooten

 

New to final 12 this year:

Craig
Jacoby
Lewis
McMichael
Powell
Taylor
Wisert


Guys dropped from last year:

Cecil Isbell
Bob Kuechenberg
Tommy Nobis
Everson Walls

If I'm Craig and Jacoby I feel very good about my chances.

 

Contributor / Coach newcomers are

Coughlin
Schottenheimer
Wells

Roone Arledge and Art Modell were dropped and Coryell went in


I'd wager Coughlin or Kraft are the pick this year.

 

GIVE ME BUDDY PARKER OR GIVE ME DEATH!

 

He should have gone in as part of the Centennial Class. There's no way they put in a dead contributor two years in a row. Coughlin turns 77 the end of next month. Kraft just turned 82.

If it's not one of those two, it'll be from Holmgren, Shanahan, Rooney Jr. and Wooten

 

No chance the coach/contributor is anyone other than Kraft, who has his hands in everything. They'll ensure an owner is taken care of before a coach.

 

I almost think Kraft didn't go in on the first year of eligibility because he already had a villa on the Mediterranian booked through August.
Or - maybe it was the massage parlor thing.

 

Coughlin took an expansion team to the AFC championship game in its second year, then won two Super Bowls with the Jints. But he won’t get in this time, due to a lifetime well spent in being a world-class prick.

 

A old white guy getting a handie from a sex worker? If anything, that would get him retroactively inducted.

 

You get to live




As always with these committees, you can make the case for just about all the finalists. He is very deserving. I am surprised they went with two posthumous selections in a row considering the ages of the others.