TAMPA, Fla. -- Long before he was known as one of the NFL's most feared tacklers, a Super Bowl champion, a Pro Football Hall of Fame finalist or general manager of the San Francisco 49ers, former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Denver Broncos safety John Lynch didn’t really know if football would be part of his future.
He saw far more success on the baseball field when he was a dual-sport athlete at Stanford.
"My very first at-bat, I hit a home run and I was just kind of like, 'This is gonna work out,'" said Lynch, who fell below the 80 percent requirement and was not voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday.