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Level -> RE: NFL Sob (or Brag) Thread (8/4/2007 7:21:33 AM)
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Now, for the rest of the inductees:
By Tom Weir, USA TODAY When Bruce Matthews is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday, most of the talk will revolve around the iron-man aspects of a nearly 20-year career in which he was the NFL equivalent of Cal Ripken Jr. But Matthews, the only first-ballot selection in this year's Hall of Fame class, is the first to laugh at the seeming invincibility he displayed with the Houston/Tennessee Oilers and Tennessee Titans.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2007-08-02-bruce-matthews_N.htm
(AP) Long before entourages became fashionable, Jim Brown had his own personal bodyguard.
Gene Hickerson protected the Hall of Fame running back from harm.
Next time you watch any old black-and-white NFL footage of Brown, Cleveland's great No. 32 weaving his way toward the end zone on a long touchdown run, there's a good chance No. 66 _ Hickerson _ was out front or alongside.
"Gene was the leader of a great line," Brown said, "and the greatest downfield blocker in the history of pro football."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/01/ap/sportsline/main3121810.shtml
By Scott Pitoniak, Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle When the National Football League draft rolled around in the spring of 1988, teams still had serious doubts about Thurman Thomas, and his surgically repaired right knee. They continued to focus more on his X-Rays than his game films. This, despite a senior season at Oklahoma State in which Thomas had rushed for more than 100 yards 10 times, including a school-record 293-yard performance against Iowa State.
This, despite a senior season in which Thomas kept a pretty fair teammate by the name of Barry Sanders stuck at the No. 2 spot on the depth chart.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2007-08-02-thurman-thomas_N.htm
by Bill Coats - St Louis Post-Dispatch
For eight minutes — maybe 10 if he runs long — on Aug. 4, Missouri son Roger Wehrli will visit the center of the NFL universe, with the glare of spotlight and all the attention trained squarely on him.
That's when Wehrli will stand behind a podium in Canton, Ohio, and speak at his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It's a place where Wehrli, a cornerback who spent all 14 of his NFL seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, had assumed he'd never find himself.
"After I retired and I was introduced at banquets, they'd say, 'future Hall of Famer.' And then as the years went on, it got to be 'should-be Hall of Famer,' " Wehrli said in a conference call with reporters. "It had reached a point where I really thought that I probably wouldn't be in. Then all of a sudden, things went right and I got voted in."
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/rams/story/CB698EA209B5D4D58625731D000EDA3F?OpenDocument
Randy Snow February 10, 2007
It’s about time!
The recent selection of former Detroit Lions tight end Charlie Sanders to the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2007 was, in my opinion, long overdue. I have been saying for years that he deserved to be in Canton and many longtime Lions fans have felt the same way.
I saw him play in person a couple of times towards the end of his career when I was a teenager. In fact, it was while attending my third Lions game ever in 1977 that I was fortunate enough to be there when Sanders became the Lions all-time leading receiver.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=20516
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