Football Hall Of Fame 2014

If you have read my previous posts on here (specifically about the MLB hall of fame vote), then you are already aware of how mentally challenged I believe a large part of the BBWAA to be when it comes to voting for players for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. The NFL writers aren't much better. In fact they're probably on the same boat, but just on a different deck.

The Board of Selectors, comprising of a forty-six man group, mainly football writers, are those whom select from a potential group of NFL players, coaches, staff, and etc. Just like baseball, a football player has to wait for five years before eligibility. Unfortunately, just like baseball, the board holds grudges against players and believes that players shouldn't be voted in during their first year of eligibility. They also prefer to only select up to one player from each position each year (i.e. one wide receiver per year).

Now ask yourself if this makes sense...you're the sixth all-time rushing running back in NFL history behind players such as Walter Payton and Barry Sanders. You've lead a team to a Super Bowl victory, been an all-pro six times, won NFL Comeback Player of The Year, won NFL Offensive Rookie of The Year, and won the Walter Payton Man of The Year. You're a first year shoe in, right? Wrong.

Running backs of lessor caliber (not bad themselves though) get voted in before you. 2011 Marshall Faulk, 2012 Curtis Martin, no one in 2013, and snubbed again this year. Edgerrin James is even being talked about ahead of you for the 2015 ballot. You're name is Jerome "The Bus" Bettis and you're the all-time leading rusher for the Pittsburgh Steelers (even ahead of Franco Harris). The fact that he is not in the Hall after this many votes is ludicrous.

The fact that the "Board of Selectors" prefer to vote only one player per position gets in every year is a joke. Sometimes, legends will retire in the same year. Imagine if this rule worked in baseball. Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and Mike Mussina all retired the same year. If you chose one of them (i.e Greg Maddux), then the other two would carry over to 2015. Now in 2015, you also have Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez. Only one of them with the other two from 2014 carried over get in? It would take five years before they could all get in and that's if no other quality pitchers retire during that time. If you deserve to get in, you deserve to go in whether or not someone playing the same position is also eligible.

Also spited for the same reason this year was Marvin Harrison, because Andre Reed made it this year. One of the top receivers in the past twenty five years, he'll have to wait for while himself with the way things are currently set up.

You say you're a scary defensive player that made quarterback shake in their cleats. You've been all-pro multiple times, more super bowl rings than any other player in history, and over one hundred career sacks. You should get in obviously, right? Wrong. You're Charles Haley and the "Board of Selectors" doesn't like you from a personal standpoint. You weren't the friendliest player to the press and now you're going to pay for it. Grudges will be held and this is wrong.

Not only does the selection process for the MLB need to be reviewed, but so does the NFL's.