Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

Yep and previous election (2004) also only had four with seven was possible. And those are just two elections from 1970s into early 2000s when voters left many "slots" unfilled, rejecting finalists that only needed YES/NO votes to fill a open slot available to that finalist-not competing d...

The plea deal is not about the best lawyers money can buy, but decision by the "victim" to not cooperate, meaning the prosecution has no path forward to win a conviction. Hall has made it clear (both in action and I suspect in clear communication to voters) that voters can't consider or ra...

I for one don't think that Hall has lowered its bar in terms of size of annual classes, 7 which was pretty common in last two decades always seemed right, two larger classes (2023 & 2024) were needed in part because during 1970s into early 2000s, many deserving players were ignored and voters cr...

I suspect at the end of the day Porter is thinking more like a CFO and less as a history museum President…as the Hall apparently now increasingly looks at the annual enshrinement as a cash cow that needs to be maximized and getting a process and voters who will simply elect the most popular, well li...

Cooney posted another very good and well pointed story regarding changes to Hall on his Substack page today And for me at this point it would take the NFL powers to remove Hall board members and/or Porter to reset how the Hall operates in terms of elections-but would take another problem to emerge (...

Like BillB, I can see a path for Kraft as the contributor finalist to eventual election competing for 4-6 elections slots against players, doubt very much any seniors have that chance and can't think of a single other contributor that voters would give more votes to than players. Its like the electi...

No idea why those two players were chosen, they are among recent PFHOFers would have made recent appearances at Hall sponsored events, perhaps because they are more known to the Hall and aware of the election process? Off the top of my head I can't think of any recent KC player who is a strong PFHOF...

note by new election rules there are 25 voters plus 3 alternate non-voters (hall list doesn't indicate who each are in terms of those two roles)

Hall has posted new 28 voters = 25 returning voters+1 new PFWA rep + 2 PFHOFers (WShields, JAllen)

https://www.profootballhof.com/hall-of- ... l-of-famer

updated list from Frank Cooney story in SubStack today