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Would be cool to make this the official thread for the NFL Honors tonight so we can post our thoughts on the awards given out and the big HOF announcement at the end.
I think NFL.com has it right. Seau, Pace, Warner, Brown, and Haley are who I got as well.
I think NFL.com has it right. Seau, Pace, Warner, Brown, and Haley are who I got as well.
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View: https://twitter.com/albyox/status/561681515122552833
Jerome Bettis is in, according to this guy.
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yep., Marvin Harrison is out . . .Coryell out Kevin Greene out, Dungy out
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It was shown on NFL Net earlier today. Do a Vulcan mind meld of my mind and you can see it.
Sorry man, no link. I was just reporting on what I saw.. They also showed Bernie stumping for OP about 2 hours later. @LesBaker Les, it was showing him saying that before the committee on Warners behalf. Same with Pace. It was like a highlight. It was on NFL Network, so I can't link to a TV report.
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If you read the whole thread I said that earlier.. However after further review, if we just keep posting it'll stay to the top.
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http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/...ro-Football-Hall-of-Fame/stories/201501310191
Jerome Bettis elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame
January 31, 2015 7:46 PM
Peter Diana/Post-Gazette
Jerome Bettis waves to his family at the end of the Super Bowl XL against the Seahawks at Ford Field Detroit Michigan, 2006.
By Ed Bouchette / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PHOENIX – The Bus is headed to Canton.
Befitting the relentless, bruising, running style that made him the sixth leading rusher in NFL history and helped make the Steelers Super Bowl champs, Jerome Bettis today was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on his fifth try.
It caps a wonderful career that began with the Los Angeles Rams in 1993 but came of age in Pittsburgh. He ended a spectacular 10 years with the Steelers when they won the Super Bowl in his final game in his hometown of Detroit nine years ago.
“I played the game of football with passion, with the desire to be a champion,’’ Bettis said. “And in that drive to become a champion I have now put myself on the most sacred ground that a football player could ever be in and that’s the Hall of Fame.
“I am humbled and grateful to all the voters who saw my career as being worthy of a gold jacket.”
The induction ceremony in Canton, Ohio, takes place Aug. 8 and Bettis may have plenty of Steelers with him. A source told the Post-Gazette that the Steelers likely will play in the Hall of Fame game Aug. 9 to coincide with Bettis’ induction.
The rest of the 2015 Class was not immediately known and won’t be announced until later this evening.
Linebacker Kevin Greene, who played three of his 15 NFL seasons with the Steelers from 1992 through 1995, advanced to the final 10 in the vote of the 46 Hall of Fame selectors here but was then knocked out.
“It’s euphoric,’’ Bettis said, his voice slightly breaking. “My father would be so proud of me.”
Johnnie Bettis, who died along with his wife Glady
“It’s an incredible moment for myself and my family, especially my mother, who went on this journey from the start with me,’’ said Bettis. “I’m even happier for her because I’m going on a journey with her through breast cancer.”
Gladys and the late Johnnie Bettis attended virtually every game their son played at Notre Dame and in the pros. They famously hosted a dinner for all his teammates at their home in Detroit the week of Super Bowl XL. His mother was diagnosed with breast cancer last summer but Bettis said the prognosis for her recovery is good.
“This is especially great because I get to share it with her, I get to share it with my wife and my two children.”
He also offered “a special thank you to the Rooney family and the Pittsburgh Steelers, who have been champions for me through this whole process. I also want to thank coach Bill Cowher, who had the ultimate trust in my as a football player. I could not ever ask a coach to have more faith in a player than coach Cowher had in me.”
And for good reason. Bettis left the game after the franchise won its fifth Vince Lombardi trophy with 13,662 yards rushing, sixth most in NFL history. His 91 touchdowns rank 10th, his 61 100-yard games fifth, his eight 1,000-yard seasons tied for fifth.
Cowher called him the greatest closer of them all and pointed to his record with a lead of more than 10 points in games as the evidence – 108-1-1.
Tom Donahoe, who acquired Bettis for the Steelers in a 1996 trade with the St. Louis Rams, said you could see on tape that defenses did not want to tackle Bettis – who weighed 260 pounds and upward during his Steelers career – in the second half of games because of his bruising style.
Yet he rarely missed games, playing in 192, third most of any running back in NFL history. His 3,479 carries rank fourth among all backs.
“One of the biggest qualities of Jerome was his durability,’’ Cowher said. “He didn’t miss many games. His productivity speaks for itself, what he did over a period of time was sort of amazing, amazing for the type of back that he was.
“When you look at power running backs and his running style and his ability week-in and week-out, year-in and year-out, it made him very special. To me, he had the best feet for any big running back I have ever seen.”
Bettis was known for getting the tough yards, especially later in his career. Of his 91 rushing touchdowns, 77 came inside the 10 yardline, the toughest real estate for a running back. And for all those games and all those carries, he rarely fumbled. He fumbled 1.2 percent of the time, which ranks him third of all Hall of Fame backs behind only Curtis Martin and Larry Csonka.
Bettis made six Pro Bowls and two All-Pro teams during his 13-year career. He was the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 1993, when he led the NFC with 1,429 yards rushing. He also won the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year in 2001 for his charity work combined with his excellence on the field.
“I want to thank Steelers fans who have been amazing throughout this whole process,’’ Bettis said, “and the love I was shown from the first day I was traded to Pittsburgh until the day I retired with a championship in Detroit. Steelers fans have been the best fans in the world to me.”
Jerome Bettis elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame
January 31, 2015 7:46 PM
Peter Diana/Post-Gazette
Jerome Bettis waves to his family at the end of the Super Bowl XL against the Seahawks at Ford Field Detroit Michigan, 2006.
By Ed Bouchette / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PHOENIX – The Bus is headed to Canton.
Befitting the relentless, bruising, running style that made him the sixth leading rusher in NFL history and helped make the Steelers Super Bowl champs, Jerome Bettis today was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on his fifth try.
It caps a wonderful career that began with the Los Angeles Rams in 1993 but came of age in Pittsburgh. He ended a spectacular 10 years with the Steelers when they won the Super Bowl in his final game in his hometown of Detroit nine years ago.
“I played the game of football with passion, with the desire to be a champion,’’ Bettis said. “And in that drive to become a champion I have now put myself on the most sacred ground that a football player could ever be in and that’s the Hall of Fame.
“I am humbled and grateful to all the voters who saw my career as being worthy of a gold jacket.”
The induction ceremony in Canton, Ohio, takes place Aug. 8 and Bettis may have plenty of Steelers with him. A source told the Post-Gazette that the Steelers likely will play in the Hall of Fame game Aug. 9 to coincide with Bettis’ induction.
The rest of the 2015 Class was not immediately known and won’t be announced until later this evening.
Linebacker Kevin Greene, who played three of his 15 NFL seasons with the Steelers from 1992 through 1995, advanced to the final 10 in the vote of the 46 Hall of Fame selectors here but was then knocked out.
“It’s euphoric,’’ Bettis said, his voice slightly breaking. “My father would be so proud of me.”
Johnnie Bettis, who died along with his wife Glady
“It’s an incredible moment for myself and my family, especially my mother, who went on this journey from the start with me,’’ said Bettis. “I’m even happier for her because I’m going on a journey with her through breast cancer.”
Gladys and the late Johnnie Bettis attended virtually every game their son played at Notre Dame and in the pros. They famously hosted a dinner for all his teammates at their home in Detroit the week of Super Bowl XL. His mother was diagnosed with breast cancer last summer but Bettis said the prognosis for her recovery is good.
“This is especially great because I get to share it with her, I get to share it with my wife and my two children.”
He also offered “a special thank you to the Rooney family and the Pittsburgh Steelers, who have been champions for me through this whole process. I also want to thank coach Bill Cowher, who had the ultimate trust in my as a football player. I could not ever ask a coach to have more faith in a player than coach Cowher had in me.”
And for good reason. Bettis left the game after the franchise won its fifth Vince Lombardi trophy with 13,662 yards rushing, sixth most in NFL history. His 91 touchdowns rank 10th, his 61 100-yard games fifth, his eight 1,000-yard seasons tied for fifth.
Cowher called him the greatest closer of them all and pointed to his record with a lead of more than 10 points in games as the evidence – 108-1-1.
Tom Donahoe, who acquired Bettis for the Steelers in a 1996 trade with the St. Louis Rams, said you could see on tape that defenses did not want to tackle Bettis – who weighed 260 pounds and upward during his Steelers career – in the second half of games because of his bruising style.
Yet he rarely missed games, playing in 192, third most of any running back in NFL history. His 3,479 carries rank fourth among all backs.
“One of the biggest qualities of Jerome was his durability,’’ Cowher said. “He didn’t miss many games. His productivity speaks for itself, what he did over a period of time was sort of amazing, amazing for the type of back that he was.
“When you look at power running backs and his running style and his ability week-in and week-out, year-in and year-out, it made him very special. To me, he had the best feet for any big running back I have ever seen.”
Bettis was known for getting the tough yards, especially later in his career. Of his 91 rushing touchdowns, 77 came inside the 10 yardline, the toughest real estate for a running back. And for all those games and all those carries, he rarely fumbled. He fumbled 1.2 percent of the time, which ranks him third of all Hall of Fame backs behind only Curtis Martin and Larry Csonka.
Bettis made six Pro Bowls and two All-Pro teams during his 13-year career. He was the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 1993, when he led the NFC with 1,429 yards rushing. He also won the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year in 2001 for his charity work combined with his excellence on the field.
“I want to thank Steelers fans who have been amazing throughout this whole process,’’ Bettis said, “and the love I was shown from the first day I was traded to Pittsburgh until the day I retired with a championship in Detroit. Steelers fans have been the best fans in the world to me.”
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Haley will probably be in, it's just that the Pittsburgh voter broke the news embargo
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Former Packers general manager Ron Wolf voted into Hall of Fame
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Former Green Bay Packers general manager Ron Wolf, the hard-driving general manager who brought the Green Bay Packers back from football oblivion, was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday.
By Bob McGinn of the Journal Sentinel
Jan. 31, 2015 6:54 p.m.
Phoenix — Ron Wolf, the hard-driving general manager who brought the Green Bay Packers back from football oblivion, was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday.
A source close to the selection process told the Journal Sentinel that Wolf gained entrance in the "contributor" category by the required 80% approval of the selection committee consisting of 44 sportswriters and two broadcasters.
Wolf and the remainder of the 2015 Hall of Fame Class were to be announced later Saturday night at the Super Bowl.
The only other purely football personnel man already in the Hall of Fame was Jim Finks.
Interestingly, strong recommendations from Finks, then general manager of the New Orleans Saints, and New York Giants GM George Young helped convince Packers President Bob Harlan in 1991 to all but turn over the keys to the moribund franchise to Wolf.
In 2006, when Wolf's name was added to the façade of Lambeau Field with all the other Hall of Fame Packers, Harlan gave the former GM the ultimate tribute.
"Ron Wolf is a person that is vitally important in the history of this franchise, a select few that includes Curly Lambeau and Vince Lombardi," said Harlan. "His name forever will be included with the all-time greats."
Lambeau was founder, player and coach of the Packers from 1919-'49.
After an awful dry spell of 14 years, Lombardi won five NFL championships in the span of seven years during the 1960s.
Hired to replace vice president Tom Braatz in late November 1991, Wolf inherited a team that had one division championship, two playoff berths and five winning seasons in the previous 24 years.
Wolf fired coach Lindy Infante a month later, hired Mike Holmgren to replace him a month after that and then traded for third-string quarterback Brett Favre of Atlanta a few weeks later.
If the Favre trade was among the top five in NFL history, Wolf's recruitment of defensive end Reggie White in April 1993 probably stands as the most significant signing in the era of unfettered free agency.
Under Wolf, the Packers never had a losing season in his nine years (1992-'00) and their regular-season of 92-52 (.639) was the NFL's second best in that span.
In all, the Packers under Wolf finished with a 101-57 (.639) record that included eight winning seasons, six playoff berths, three NFC Central Division titles and one Super Bowl crown.
"We took this franchise and turned the darn thing around," Wolf said in February 2001 after his abrupt retirement. "That's something no one can ever take away from me. Never."
Safety LeRoy Butler, who played almost his entire career under Wolf and was still playing then, said that Wolf's sudden retirement was as devastating to him as the death of his own father.
"He always, always really appreciated what the players did for the organization," Butler said at the time. "The blood, the sweat, the tears. That's what the players really like."
Wolf spent about four decades in the NFL beginning as a scout for Al Davis and the Raiders in 1963. He spent three years as GM of the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers, returned to Oakland in '78 and then worked there until his brief stint as personnel director for the New York Jets under GM Dick Steinberg.
"The best thing that happened to me was when I went to work for Dick for a year and a half," Wolf said in a 2007 interview. "I learned more from him about how to do certain things than I learned all my years in Oakland.
"Al Davis taught me everything I know and I'm deeply indebted to him. But under Dick Steinberg I saw an entirely different way to do things."
Young, one of Wolf's contemporaries, once told an interviewer that Wolf was the only man who worked for Davis that was completely honorable and wouldn't lie.
The late Dick Corrick, the Packers' personnel director from 1977-'86 whose NFL career spanned three decades, called Wolf "probably the most intelligent guy in the business."
Although Wolf, 76, has been just a casual observer of the game for the past 15 years, his straight-talking approach and timeless football acumen still keep him on speed dial for football decision-makers across the league.
On Wednesday, Patriots coach Bill Belichick said of Wolf, "We talk frequently. Tremendous respect for Ron and Ron's philosophy."
Acting as a consultant, Wolf helped the Chargers in 2013 and the Jets just last month sift through and interview candidates before each club hired both a new coach and new GM.
Wolf did go back to work as a personnel specialist in January 2004 for the Cleveland Browns under coach Butch Davis and president Carmen Policy. After Wolf quit three months later, Davis all but apologized for not utilizing him more.
In 2000, Wolf was one of seven legendary scouts chosen to work under former Dallas Cowboys GM Tex Schramm on an All-NFL Dream team selected by Pro Football Weekly.
One day in 2007, during an interview at Lambeau Field, Wolf reflected upon what the Packers franchise was like in 1991.
"I think about the way Green Bay, Wisconsin, was when I came here," said Wolf. "Look at this stadium. It's unbelievable.
"When I got here in '91 I went to Montgomery Ward downtown. You could get Wisconsin and Notre Dame (clothing) but you couldn't get Green Bay Packers."
From the 4-12 pits in 1991 the Packers vaulted to 9-7 in the first season with Wolf finding the players, Holmgren coaching them and Favre quarterbacking. They improved each year until 1996, the championship season, when Green Bay became the last team to lead the NFL not only in most points scored but also fewest points allowed.
Wolf proved to be a master of free agency and trades, making a league-high 87 of them. He drafted well in the mid-to-later rounds but his legacy also included first-round mistakes such as cornerback Terrell Buckley and tackle John Michels.
"People have said none of my draft choices were any good," Wolf said in that 2007 interview. "I say, 'That's not the idea. The idea is to win football games.'
"There's a lot of guys who had good No. 1 draft records that never win any games."
Five current NFL GMs worked for Wolf: Ted Thompson (Packers), John Dorsey (Chiefs), John Schneider (Seahawks), Scot McCloughan (Redskins) and Reggie McKenzie (Raiders).
Wolf will receive his yellow jacket during enshrinement weekend Aug. 7-9 in Canton, Ohio.
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It was shown on NFL Net earlier today. Do a Vulcan mind meld of my mind and you can see it.
@LesBaker Les, it was showing him saying that before the committee on Warners behalf. Same with Pace. It was like a highlight. It was on NFL Network, so I can't link to a TV report.
@Dagonet I don't trust the fecker Bernie, he's a slippery mofo.
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I don't trust you, so here I go!Do a Vulcan mind meld of my mind and you can see it.
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Where are these posts coming from!!?!! I've heard nothing Official!!
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Nothing is official . .. won't be until the NFL Awards show, the info is coming from twitter, etc.
Also, Haley is in