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Dumb question but, has it always been only 5 inductees per year? Reason I ask is that the league has obviously expanded by what - 8 teams since the 60s? Shouldn't there be an increase with the number of teams in the era to the number of inductees?
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a neat cape posted:From the HOF website: Cheers.
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Dec 31, 2023 00:59
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Luke had a shorter career but he was the best linebacker of his generation and I don't think it's particularly close tbh. When he was in his prime he was a force of nature.
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Feb 9, 2024 07:39
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I've always been of the opinion that if you have the accumulative stats over a long period the no ability like availability vibes kind of kick in, similarly I think you should go in if you can't tell the story of the NFL without that person for more than a year. Eli fits that latter bill pretty readily. Then you have the third - guys like Luke were just so good for their relatively short careers I think they deserve to be there too. Then you get guys like Steve Smith / Holt / Johnson etc who have good but not great counting numbers and had a good but not great impact on the game that people will debate. I think if you're putting guys Hester and Davis in Eli, Luke, Smith Snr etc all deserve to go in but I don't mind a big hall. I think the Eli might not have had enough of an impact with the whole 'story of the league" concept but his good counting stats make up the difference if that makes some kind of sense? TBH I don't like the idea of not putting a player in because a few fans might get mad, when their peers agree with them being in and it means so much to the player to be recognized.
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Just make a special teams wing and put one guy in a year. Returner, punter, kicker. Dudes that deserve it get in. Don't have to listen to bitching about a specialist over others.
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