Could you tell the story of the NFL without mentioning the player’s impact on the game?
This seems to be the rule-of-thumb that everybody who debates Pro Football Hall of Fame eligibility urns to when it comes to players. Has it always been this way? I had a conversation with MHR staffer Jeffrey Essery the other day and posited that it hasn’t.
If you look at the history of the hall of fame, you’ll notice a bunch of names among the shining stars that you’ve most likely never heard of. In 1963, the hall of fame’s inaugural class consisted of 17 enshrinees.