When Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt, Orlando Pace and Kurt Warner all retired after the 2009 NFL season, it meant they would compete against each other five years later when they became eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
It created a “Greatest Show on Turf” logjam, if you will, starting in 2015. At least Marshall Faulk was out of the way because he retired four years earlier and was a first-ballot inductee — selected in 2011.
Well, Pace made it in 2016, in his second year of eligibility. And Warner is freshly minted, voted into the Class of 2017 on Feb.