John Lynch played 15 seasons in the National Football League, and nine of them ended with a trip to the Pro Bowl. Lynch's career as a whole should be capped by one more trip, to Canton to pose with a bronze bust.
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Lynch's nearly-annual visits to Hawaii represent one of his best argument for inclusion in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, for which he has been a finalist each of the last two years. They are an indication that his peers viewed him as one of the best of his generation at the safety position, and that NFL fans believed his hard-hitting style and clutch plays were critical to his teams' success.