2013 Pro Football Hall of Fame Finalists

Interesting to see that the AP preview of the announcement is all about Cleveland hating on Modell.

 

To clevanders boycott canton this summer if he gets in?

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20130202/pro-football-hall-of-fame-process/?sct=hp_t11_a3&eref=sihp

 

very true.

 

... it wants fans to Tweet their thoughts about the selection process, with the hashtag #PFHOF13. Let me join the chorus who believes the process is broken.

If you were joining the chorus, it would be through tweeting, not writing a column.

When the class is announced there will be as much grousing about who didn't get in as who did get in ...

There will be far more grousing about who didn't get in. There always is.

Joe Horrigan, a VP with the Hall, expressed concern that if a non-player category were created and the candidate failed to receive an 80 percent vote, he or she might have a hard time being considered again. To which I say, Oh well.

Why not bring up the logical fallacy of Horrigan's point? The same exact thing remains true in the current setup. They still need 80 percent. They still risk being run off if they don't get it quickly.

My issues with the selection process don't end there. I'm incredulous that there are no punters and only one kicker in the Hall of Fame; that the last true safety to be inducted was Ken Houston in 1986; that Don Coryell, the forefather of many of today's concepts, is not in the Hall and has only been a finalist once; that Charles Haley, the only player to win five Super Bowls and a two-time NFC Defensive Player of the Year with 100.5 sacks, has been passed over the last eight years; that Terrell Davis, one of only seven 2,000 yard rushers and a winner of two Super Bowls and a Super Bowl MVP, is not a finalist despite owning three of the top 18 rushing performances in playoff history while no other player appears more than once on that list.

These aren't separate problems, they are part of the same issue of small class size.

Basically, he took one good idea, to cut one seniors spot and add a new one for non-players, and fluffed it out with a bunch of bullshit including a rambling lecture on why Terrell Davis should be a finalist, without even saying if he should be in the Hall.

 

Apparently the voting went up till minutes before the announcement is about to be made.

 

The final 10 apparently were: Allen, Bettis, Carter, Haley, Ogden, Parcells, Reed, Sapp, Strahan and Williams.

 

They debated the longest on Parcells. An hour. Amazing.

 

Word leaking out now is the 5 finalists are — Allen, Carter, Ogden, Parcells and Sapp, along with the two senior finalists.

 

if this proves to be accurate only surprise to me is sapp over strahan. relieved carter has been put out of his misery.

 

Sapp is not even a Hall of Fame asshole.

 

Wrong on both counts, assuming you think he is not worthy of the actually Hall. He deserves to get in, maybe not on first ballot ahead of Strahan, but he belongs.