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I suspect at the end of the day Porter is thinking more like a CFO and less as a history museum President…as the Hall apparently now increasingly looks at the annual enshrinement as a cash cow that needs to be maximized and getting a process and voters who will simply elect the most popular, well li...

Cooney posted another very good and well pointed story regarding changes to Hall on his Substack page today And for me at this point it would take the NFL powers to remove Hall board members and/or Porter to reset how the Hall operates in terms of elections-but would take another problem to emerge (...

Like BillB, I can see a path for Kraft as the contributor finalist to eventual election competing for 4-6 elections slots against players, doubt very much any seniors have that chance and can't think of a single other contributor that voters would give more votes to than players. Its like the electi...

No idea why those two players were chosen, they are among recent PFHOFers would have made recent appearances at Hall sponsored events, perhaps because they are more known to the Hall and aware of the election process? Off the top of my head I can't think of any recent KC player who is a strong PFHOF...

note by new election rules there are 25 voters plus 3 alternate non-voters (hall list doesn't indicate who each are in terms of those two roles)

Hall has posted new 28 voters = 25 returning voters+1 new PFWA rep + 2 PFHOFers (WShields, JAllen)

https://www.profootballhof.com/hall-of- ... l-of-famer

updated list from Frank Cooney story in SubStack today

update...23 voters removed..still waiting on Hall to post new list

update: Hall of Fame Cuts 19 Selectors With 280 Years of Combined Experience by PAUL KUHARSKY https://www.paulkuharsky.com/news/hall-of-fame-cuts-19-selectors-with-280-years-of-combined-experience “NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Pro Football Hall of Fame’s dramatic reduction of its Selection Committee is el...

In my view, we can and should do both...there is no need to accept the premise that by reducing voters and removing those with decades of experience as voters and members of the NFL media, when we all know the significant impact these changes will have on "senior" candidates as the Hall sh...