Who should be in the Hall of Fame who isn't.

[Bronco Billy]

Randy Gradishar

 

No-brainer here and a much greater travesty than Monk not being in. Gradishar was a 10 year starter who compiled better per-game numbers than Ray Lewis has in his career in most relevant LB statistical categories and one of the greatest goal-line LBs who ever played the game.

 

That sports writers take great glee in keeping Gradishar out shows: 1) That the HoF has no credibility, and 2) There are a bunch of idiots doing the voting. That's not to say that those who are in the HoF are not deserving, but keeping Gradishar out is shame of gargantuan proportions.

 

I'd throw Jerry Kramer in as another deserving player on the outside looking in.

[Azazello1313]

randy gradishar

[Ditkaless Wonders]

No-brainer here and a much greater travesty than Monk not being in. Gradishar was a 10 year starter who compiled better per-game numbers than Ray Lewis has in his career in most relevant LB statistical categories and one of the greatest goal-line LBs who ever played the game.

 

That sports writers take great glee in keeping Gradishar out shows: 1) That the HoF has no credibility, and 2) There are a bunch of idiots doing the voting. That's not to say that those who are in the HoF are not deserving, but keeping Gradishar out is shame of gargantuan proportions.

 

I'd throw Jerry Kramer in as another deserving player on the outside looking in.

 

 

Jerry Kramer for Hall of fame

 

To make the Hall of Fame a ball player must have stats, the respect of his contemporaries, and most importantly be so intregral to the story of the league such that the league's history would be incomplete without mention of that player.

 

Jerry Kramer was the keystone player in the signature play of one of the most dominating franchises ever. He made the Packer sweep go to the tune of 5 championships during his time there. He was the heart and sole of perhaps the most famous offensive line in football. His kicking carried the Packers to one championship, and his blocking in one of the most definitive games in football (the ice Bowl for those to young to remember), along with the block of Ken Bowman, sprung Bart Starr for the winning score in a game where the aging Packers played on nothing but guts against a young and dominent Dallas team. In that game and that play he proved that guts and heart are more important than size and talent and he had guts and heart to spare. He went through his carrier with scars and wounds that would put most men in a wheelchair and he dominated the grets of his day, men like merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones, Bubba Smith, and he did it with a chunk of his side torn out from a lathe accident, with his arm permanently disfigured and injured from a shot gun blast, with a seven inch shard of wood impailed in his groin and eventually, because of that with a colostemy.

 

Kramer carried Lombardi, in respect, on his shoulders from the field of glory after the superbowl, and he carried Lombardi's casket to it's final resting place. These were all iconic moments in the league's history captured in photos and have made the league what it is today.

 

During football he chronicaled the game honorably in a best selling book with Dick Schape. After he retired he chronicaled the game again in another best selling book.

 

Years after the new generation had forgotten about honor and service to the game Kramer stepped forward to sell his superbowl ring to help fund the medical retirement benefits for players the league had forgotten about. He did this without seeking the fanfare others have sought in that cause.

 

If you want post season honors he has them. All pro selections, no problem. All time teams, he's voted onto them.

 

Me, I love Line Backers and Gradishar was a dominant beast who is massively under appreciated because of the team he played on. Gradishar's ommission is a disgrace to the voters and the game, yet Kramer's exclusion still is the greatest ommission of the Hall, and the Hall of Fame is a joke without his inclusion.

[Azazello1313]

it was somewhat painful this weekend to watch someone who was the epitome of class, humility, and professionalism (art monk) get passed over for a cokehead with inferior credentials who was the epitome of trash-talk, narcissism, and offensive-PI.

[Hat Trick]

it was somewhat painful this weekend to watch someone who was the epitome of class, humility, and professionalism (art monk) get passed over for a cokehead with inferior credentials who was the epitome of trash-talk, narcissism, and offensive-PI.

 

That's pretty much the way I saw it too.

[peteteacher2001]

 

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