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Here's the 20 who will be on the ballot for the HOVG Class of 2017 (listed in alphabetical order):

Houston Antwine
Matt Blair
Bobby Boyd
Joey Browner
Deron Cherry
George Christensen
Todd Christensen
Dwight Clark
Earl Faison
Joe Fortunato
Ken Gray
Dave Grayson
Cornell Green
Ace Gutowsky
Warren Lahr
Tony Latone
Stanley Morgan
Dan Reeves
Bob Skoronski
Bill Stanfill

Is it permissible to ask (and just out of curiosity) how many people were nominated?

That is a great list of nominees.
It is going to be very difficult to pare down.

JuggernautJ wrote:Is it permissible to ask (and just out of curiosity) how many people were nominated?

55

It is going to be very difficult to pare down.

I think I've got 8 of my votes figured out already. I'll mull over my decision on the other 2 for the next few months until I actually have to send in a ballot!

Here's the full list of nominees that the membership sent in this year (in alphabetical order):

Grady Alderman
Doc Alexander
Houston Antwine
Matt Blair
Forrest Blue
Bobby Boyd
Benny Boynton
Ray Bray
Bill Brown
Joey Browner
Howard Buck
Ernie Caddel
Wes Chandler
Deron Cherry
George Christensen
Todd Christensen
Dwight Clark
Frank Cope
Ward Cuff
Red Dunn
Jug Earp
Earl Faison
Joe Fortunato
Ken Gray
Dave Grayson
Cornell Green
Ace Gutowsky
Dennis Harrah
Roy Jefferson
Homer Jones
Ernie Ladd
Warren Lahr
Tony Latone
Father Lumpkin
Lydell Mitchell
Stanley Morgan
Bo Molenda
Chet Mutryn
John Niland
Riley Odoms
Jimmy Orr
Peggy Parratt
Eddie Price
Jethro Pugh
Mike Quick
Ahmad Rashad
Dan Reeves
Frank Ryan
Bob Skoronski
Bill Stanfill
Mike Stratton
Jack Stroud
Bob Vogel
Alex Webster
Jerrell Wilson

Only 11 of us submitted nominations?

Interesting group of nominees. Nice job by the selection committee.

My first reaction on seeing the list of this year's nominees was -
What - no ex-Giants, Jets or Bills? I then looked up each player's career and
found that Todd Christensen did play in 1 game for the Giants in his first season.

19 of the 20 (not Dave Grayson who played 6 years with Oakland and 4 for the Chiefs/Dallas Texans) played their entire career with just one team although 8 of the 19 also played one season with another team.

Of the players' primary teams there is a good distribution among the other teams with
Dallas, Detroit, Minnesota, New England, Oakland each having 2 players
and Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Cardinals, Green Bay, Kansas City, Miami,
Pottsville, San Diego, San Francisco each having one.

There were 3 players from the two-way era (G. Christensen, Gutowsky, Latone).
Of the other 17 only 6 were primarily offensive players - T. Christensen, Clark,
Gray, Morgan, Reeves, Skoronski).

ChrisBabcock wrote:Only 11 of us submitted nominations?

it is unlikely that 11 people nominated five completely different players



I hope to nominate players next year. I didn't have the time to consider it this year.

ChrisBabcock wrote:Only 11 of us submitted nominations?

Would have to check with Andy.

As you know, in the past if people nominate a player already nominated he'll ask you to send in another name. Don't know if that happened this time around or not. Though 55 / 5 = 11 so "11" would make sense.

For comparison sake, there was 68 names nominated last cycle (2016). It fluctuates +/- a couple people per year and obviously, lets say two people, that makes a 10 nominee difference so it just depends on the year. E.g. year A 11 PFRA members nominate, year B 15 PFRA members, year C 13 PFRA members, etc ...

JWL wrote: I hope to nominate players next year. I didn't have the time to consider it this year.

I keep a 3 x 5" index card under my keyboard.
When I am reading and come across someone who is perhaps worthy I note him on the card.
Makes it easy come nomination time.
I already have a few possibilities for next year.