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I get attacked on Facebook football groups for this opinion but I'm not a fan of the double standard and bias towards Cleveland Browns players who's career's overlapped in the AAFC and only had 3-5 good years in the NFL getting in the Hall Of Fame compared to all the AFL legends who get snubbed bec...

The common story is Paul Brown used 40 yards because of special teams, how long/far you go on coverage. I cannot remember the reference, mayb John Madden, on air or in books, or Paul Zimmerman, or elsewhere. Jack Faulkner had a similar view, that football is a '40 yard game' but didn't seem to limit...

The year after SBX, the year before Dorsett/Big D's second and last World Championship under Tom Landry. They didn't make it to the conference championship game. They barely lost to the Rams at home in a defensive struggle, 14-12, in the divisional round. I either forgot about it or never knew it t...

PFHOFlover wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 6:44 pm John what do you think of the list how did I do

I agree with them. I would add Earl Campel for 1970s...seems like two years is too few.

John Turney knows about all these questionable choices. He helped create the All-Mid Decade teams on Pro Football Journal. The HOF should acknowledge or honor/accept these teams. Thoroughly thought out and sensible ... Thanks for the compliment, but I wouldn't want Hall to acknowledge but was hopin...

Just did a quick search for that; apparently it’s from one year ending in five to the next. (ex: 1995-2005) It's just a loose definition, so if a guy's best ten were 1985-94 or 1986-95, it didn't matter to me; I would accept one guy's 85-94 and another's 86-85. The idea was to be reasonable...and n...

Manning missed all of the 1976 season. He played in 1975, all but the last game. He and the Saints were terrible, but he played. Did they ask Steve Bartkowski? He was better than Boryla. There weren't a lot of good NFC QBs. Good call, my memory got it wrong. Thanks. Manning was asked but his arm wa...

rewing84 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 03, 2026 9:28 pm I'm guessing it's either anderson or Greenwood

I'd guess Craig

Think he had most buzz. Not sure he got 40, but most have talked to so far think he was probably top 2-3 on many ballots. As you've pointed out the zero sum of votes and likely top heavy voting--Kraft, BB and RC woue guess one-man class og RC. But just a guess. If no one gets to 40, they run tiebre...

As PFHOF analyst / advocate Ron Katz pointed out last week, voters could give Roger Craig the hometown bump. The last time the Super Bowl was in Santa Clara, Eddie Bartolo was elected. Tampa 2021: John Lynch. LA 2022: Cliff Branch (and Vermeil, if you want the Rams angle). https://www.youtube.com/w...