Will JO be inducted into the Hall of Fame Tomorrow?

**GOTA** · 02-03-2013, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by jonboy79

I understand that when the hall first opened, Football had been played for a while, this the first dozen or so classes had some catching up to do. The players getting in now, simply shows me they concept has fulfilled it's obligation and therefore should be altered.

And Allen vs Munoz... I can see the argument, but Larry Allen was just SO DOMINANT that players set to play opposite seemd to fake injuries on a regular basis so as not to embarrass tjemselves. He was the driving force of Emmitt owning the career rushing record. Munoz is before my time so I didn't watch him play in a real-time basis, and therefore may be biased, but since I began watching football inthe mid 80's I've never seen an Olineman dominate like Allen.

Munoz had a season where he allowed 1 1/2 sacks. That's not a misprint. And it wasn't like the Bengals had great lineman playing next to him. He had the best technique of any Tackle ever and he was very strong. Munoz was never above 280 pounds either so it wasn't like he was some sort of physical freak. The guy just knew how to play the position better than anyone ever has.

**PerpetuallyBored74** · 02-03-2013, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by mmi16

I have to agree about the split ballot. There is no way to compare the accomplishments of players and non-players - they can only be compared against their own kind. Congrats to JO and once again Mr. Model gets jobbed.

+1

There's already enough of a logjam with deserving candidates like Cris Carter, Andre Reed, Tim Brown, Cortez Kennedy, Dermontti Dawson, etc... waiting far too long for their induction (Yes, Dawson, Kennedy & Carter are now in, but it took way longer than it should have)

And that logjam is about to get worse with more deserving candidates being added into the mix over the next few years.

They're going to have to make some kind of changes to the election process to alleviate this problem, or it's only going to get worse.

Congrats and thank you to Ogden who deserved to be a first ballot HoF'er.

**ActualSpamBot** · 02-04-2013, 10:33 AM

Want to hear a stat that puts Ogden's absolute dominance into perspective:

Originally Posted by Peter King

What I really appreciated about Ogden was his, for lack of a better phrase, clean play. He had 13 false starts in his career and 13 holding penalties.

Holy. Crap.

That's insane for a guy who played as long as he did. Truly the greatest ever.