I’m glad Randall McDaniel was elected, even though it surprised many. He was the best at his position for a decade, and never got the credit he deserved.

Also Chris Carter not even making the final five…wow.

I will leave the Sharpe rants for everyone else, he will get in eventually.

I’m glad that DT finally got the recognition he deserved, but I was surprised to not see Sharpe’s name. We can all probably agree that he was, at the least, one of the top 2 TEs. He’ll definitely get in, but the queue of players waiting to be voted in is getting fairly large and talent-filled at this point.

Also, NFL.com’s live broadcast of this featured comments from the NFL.com writers, who said that Carter did make the top 10 – no mention of anyone else though.

And Rod Woodson is more of an eventual HOFer in a lean year, than a first-ballot guy, to me. He was very good, and durable over a long period of time, but not elite. He’s sort of like Jerome Bettis in that way, although he was a better player than the Bus. Both definitely get helped a lot by the Stiller hype machine. Playing for Pittburgh or any team in the NFC East is sort of like playing basketball for Duke or North Carolina. It’s really hard to tell what is true, and what is all just a bunch of hype.

Beyond that, I can’t quibble wirth Smith, McDaniel, Hayes, or Thomas. All deserved it. But Sharpe definitely deserved it, and so did Cris Carter.

The guys that i see in definitely deserve it , minus Ralph Wilson maybe, but Shannon helped revolutionize the position of TE and was on 3 Superbowl winning teams and was just overall worthy.

This is a slap in the face to every Bronco and Bronco fan ever. I will be out in full force emailing every last one of the “election committee” with my entire fleet of available Yahoo email accounts. I’ll be polite, don’t worry, but trust me, they will know how I feel about this. It’s going down. Every one of these aloof apes that vote for this is held accountable, and the Broncos need to speak out about it. John Elway, please come out from wherever you are and tell the world how much Shannon and Terrell Davis helped you win your two Super Bowls. Pat Bowlen, please do the same. And any and every Bronco fan out there, please let the world know how you think about this. As it is, the hall of fame is a joke. An absolute joke, and a travesty.

OK, here’s the list of tight ends in the hall:
-Dave Casper
-Mike Ditka
-John Mackey
-Ozzie Newsome
-Charlie Sanders
-Jackie Smith
-Kellen Winslow

You know how many of those guys have better stats than Shannon? NONE.
You know how many have more rings? I don’t, and I’m too pissed off to look it up. I will when I start my email army. But in all likelihood not many have more than 3.

This is BS. Absolute BS and a complete joke. My list of alternative names for the hall of fame (which should NEVER deserve to be capitalized):
-hall of shame
-hall of fail
-hall of s—t
-bowl of s—t
-hall of San Fransisco, Dallas, Oakland, and New York

The best (eligible, at least) TE in the game, ever, doesn’t get in? The guy wen’t from playing for Savannah State to winning three rings – a pad on the back seems fair…

Is this even a surprice? I don’t know, but having P. King deciding on things like players’ legacy makes me want to go back to watching soccer…

Must… resist… playing… east-coast-bias-card…

thats why i will never go there. Its called the hall of shame for reason (well to me anyways)

That John Elway was inducted his first year. I guess that’s what you have to be to be elected in as Denver Bronco: Only one of the best players to ever play the position. Wait … No… Shannon was that. I am stumped!

Couldn’t be a bias because no mediocre players from Dallas, Pittsgurgh or Oakland get in. Only the crem del la crem! Michael Irvin definitely would be a HOFer if he were a Bronco. Right?

I guess this also means Rod Smith and TD have no chance in hell!

Bull. Shit.

OK, that’s one word split. But you get where I’m coming from.

I WILL admit that this is a solid induction class (i.e. Derrick Thomas should’ve been in several years back). But to have the best pass-catching tight end of his era NOT get in on the first ballot (and just because he didn’t block well doesn’t mean he wasn’t a tight end) is just incorrigible to standards I’m not sure I want to go down to.

Alright. That’s all from me.

there was still one available spot for a player to make the maximum of 7 players to be enshrined.

Meaning… there were enough naysayers in the room to make Shannon get less than the 80% required for his enshrinement. I really have to question our Denver media representatives. Are they representing our players adequately??

Also, I’ve read elsewhere more conspiracy theories, dun dun dun… saying that the voters are viewing Sharpe as a receiving TE and they want Jerry to be the first first-ballot receiver to make it into the hall.

Lastly, looking at the lineup for next year… it looks even harder for Shannon to make it in! =/

Wow, a Bronco gets denied once again. I know Shannon Sharpe will get in eventually, however there is no excuse. The only thing I don’t understand is how can a player not get in the HOF one year and then make it the next year or so? A player is either HOF material or he isn’t. One morre thing I’ve got to say is that Tony Gonzalez better not get in the first year either.

Once again proves the HOF voters care not about the merit of the person, only their own political agenda. HOF voters are jokes, freaking jokes, as angry as the MHR report was against these clowns, it’s now time to start kicking these doors down, the stupid arguement, oh he will get in don’t worry about it, just assures that deserving guys such as Gradishar, Little, Wright, Mecklenberg, Davis, Atwater, and the rest will not get in because there is no way in hell that the HOF would every vote two Broncos in at the same time, and Sharpe will take away from any votes any of the other guys will have. I know the voters will not tell their reasoning and hide behind the veil of confidentiality, but face it, very few of them if any are qualified to be voting, this proves it. I suggest a protest at the HOF induction ceremony may be something worth considering, might be nice to have people yelling BS at the top of their lungs on national TV, especially when they indcut Ralph Wilson, his claim to fame, being old and owning the team for a long time, what did he do to advance the game? In all honesty, Pat Bowlen has done more for the NFL in the last ten years than Wilson has done his entire life.

Total career recieving yards 4,817, 31 TD, blocked for one 1,000 yd back, team winning percentage during your time there 0.500, no championships, noSB appearances, no
championship appearance – welcome to the Hall of Fame

Total career recieving yards 10,060, 61 D, blocked for thirteen 1,000 yd backs, one 2,000 yd back, team winning percentage during time there 0.594, 3 NFL championships, multiple playoffs – go to hell

when these hacks are trying to get JohnnyB, and others like him, to hire them to write for the SBNation blogs. We’ll work cheap, and we have great name recognition!!!!

MHR should have about 5 million unique visitors per month by then, at the rate we’re going (that is actually a pretty conservative estimate.) SI will likely be a monthly magazine by then, like the Sporting News, and ESPN will have bowed out of the magazine business. The only important printed newspapers left will be the New York Times, The Washington Post, the LA Times, and USA Today.

Brave. New. World.