When one gets inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, it’s a life-changing event.
It’s the culmination for a life of work that is remembered forever. When people visit the museum in Canton, Ohio, they will see the busts of all who have been enshrined. It’s their path to immortality.
The process to make that happen, unless you’re a sure-fire, first-ballot hall of famer, is stressful, exciting, nerve-wracking and tense. When you become one of the 15 finalists, as Denver Broncos legends Steve Atwater, Champ Bailey and Pat Bowlen are for the class of 2019, all of that amps up tenfold.