BRH

The interesting thing about this will be seeing how the O.J. exhibit is handled, and how they'll handle inviting the inductees to ceremonies if, as I'm sure will happen, he is one.

Especially since Al Davis and Lamar Hunt have both been in for a long time, and unlike them, Ralph never moved his team (though he had plenty of opportunities to do so). Tasker is another guy who deserves to get in. His situation is similar to those of Hoyt Wilhelm and Jan Stenerud. It took the voters a long time to decide that relievers and kickers deserved to make their respective sports' Halls, but once they did, Wilhelm and Stenerud were the obvious choices. Tasker will be the obvious and automatic choice once voters figure out that special teamers belong.

My understanding on autographs was that the sessions were open to kids 14 and under. Am I wrong?

That's true. We never lost a Super Bowl by that many points!

OMG the link to the actual comments by Bills fans is some of the funniest damn stojan I've ever read.

That he does. Shula doesn't, though. Anyone catch him nodding when Marino called him "the greatest coach of all time"?

It was and he also mentioned that he and Jim had been friends for a long time. Young went first, though, and he had already mentioned the Kellys. Class move by both QBs.

Not only that but he made a joke at the beginning of his speech that was all about himself (how someone mistook him for Y.A. Tittle). Nothing's more annoying than a presenter at an awards banquet who thinks the spotlight is on him.

Too bad because his dad didn't realize that the inductee's speech is supposed to be longer than the presenter's. Jeez, I think Grit's still yapping up there.

Both Young and Marino mentioned Jim and Jill in their speeches and said their prayers were with them.

And I don't think he'll be mentioning 62-7 any time soon...

I'm watching Marino's speech now and I noticed something... he's not going to mention Jimmuh at ALL.

Yep, it's Andre, Freddy, Jimbo, Kent and Biscuit.

Kelly's Heroes. I had that poster on my dorm room wall in college, along with another one of "Machine Gun Kelly."

I KNEW I was setting myself up somehow.

That was perhaps my biggest shock when I spent a few weeks there. I think I hurt my neck. Well put. I'll agree with that.

Yeah, Rich was completely unaware.

That's funny, because I've spent a little time myself in Europe and couldn't understand why there was this vast void of hotness in the middle of the continent. I mean, you have French girls to the west, Polish girls to the east, Swiss and Italian girls to the south, and Scandinavian girls to the north. Then there's Germany.

And on this board, that's no mean feat. Probably it was some idiot Iggle fan calling in and proposing that trade.

Either that or the fundraisers didn't want to pay his band to play the gig.

I think the first time he knocked Brady on his candy ass, you'd be his biggest fan.

I think maybe he was asking whether you had a theory as to why Kelly, Marino and Esiason all support each other's fundraisers but Flutie doesn't appear to be part of that group. I got a theory on that.

This is annoying. JP was playing against the Packers' starters and Favre was going against one of the best defenses in the league. Rodgers was going against a bunch of guys who are just biding time until the Arena League season starts up.

Good post. With #4 I'd have to say that right now the question isn't whether you'd rather have Simon or Pat and the pick. Pat's gone and he was going no matter what we did, I think. He's a 33-year-old defensive tackle who wanted money that would have been more for past performance than for any promise of future contributions. I think it would have been dumb to re-sign him myself; there's no point in giving a big contract to almost anyone in his 30s except for Pro Bowlers and Pat wasn't one. The question is whether you'd rather have a 26-year-old Pro Bowl caliber DT who can team with Sam Adams right now, or just Sam Adams and Ron Edwards plus a pick or two in next year's draft. When you look at it that way, the choice becomes easier. I'm not that worried about Nate. He's probably going to be gone anyway and this deal, if it happens, may just reflect how TD feels about his chances of keeping Nate.