Saturday’s Pro Football Hall of Fame deliberations really ought to be part of the NFL Network’s “Look Inside The Charnel House” series, because there will be more to chew on in that room for those 46 electors than you’ll see in the actual Superb Owl.
What is more, it got more interesting with the development that former Raider quarterback Ken Stabler’s autopsy showed a massive presence of CTE, the protein in the brain that has been linked to the kinds of repetitive cranial trauma often found in football players.
The class of finalists is not an overwhelming one after you accept Brett Favre as the no-brainer inductee, and by overwhelming, we mean “no debate needed” candidates.