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Jake Plummer traveled from Idaho to Rhode Island in 1991 to attend his brother Brett's graduation from Brown.
On the return trip, his family stopped in Canton, Ohio, long enough for the young quarterback to have his picture taken in front of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's familiar football-shaped rotunda.
"At that time, I wanted to be a Hall of Famer," Plummer said. "But I had to win the Super Bowl to get there."
That didn't happen during Plummer's 10-year NFL career — reaching the AFC Championship game with Denver in 2005 — but he did more than enough throughout his football career to be a multi-time Hall of Famer.