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sluggermatt15 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 20, 2025 8:27 pm

SeahawkFever wrote: ↑Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:46 pm

sluggermatt15 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 5:42 pm If you base induction on talent alone, Brown is a slam dunk. However, with all his off-the-field, and personality issues, I can see him not being inducted. There are definitely guys who aren't in based on what they did off-the-field who were really good.

As I understand it that would be Jim Tyrer, Darren Sharper, and Antonio Brown. Anyone else that was good enough by consensus and is out solely due to off field actions?

Ray Lewis is in the HOF. They clearly did not take into account his off-the-field history.

It's been clearly established that Ray Lewis never held a knife on the night those two men were stabbed. Any crime committed by Ray occurred only after the stabbings occurred. That's not akin to a murder/suicide, or multiple rapes.

sluggermatt15 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 20, 2025 8:27 pm Ray Lewis is in the HOF. They clearly did not take into account his off-the-field history.

And raises the question of OJ Simpson never being kicked out. But, OJ, never convicted of course, liable, not not guilty. However, Lewis, IMO, didn't do the murder but if I understand right, he was there and then helped cover up.

Brown will likely be like Sharper. Just ignored.