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Clark Judge's annual post-vote column
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2026 12:09 am
by readjack
Hi all — PFHOF 2026 is in: Roger Craig, Drew Brees, Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly, Adam Vinatieri. Clark Judge asked myself and Ken Crippen to publish his annual post-vote column, including debate times. Here it is!
https://readjack.wordpress.com/2026/02/ ... 2026-vote/
Re: Clark Judge's annual post-vote column
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2026 12:16 am
by Brian wolf
Thanks, Jack ... I saw it on Ken's site as well ... let the Judge have the last word ... haha
I miss TalkOfFame Network
Re: Clark Judge's annual post-vote column
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2026 12:33 am
by readjack
Man, don't we all
Re: Clark Judge's annual post-vote column
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2026 10:12 am
by ChrisBabcock
Interesting that Manning required 35 minutes of debate.
Re: Clark Judge's annual post-vote column
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2026 6:58 pm
by JuggernautJ
From Judge's article:
"Voters are warming to specialists. Vinatieri is the second modern-era specialist to be enshrined in three years and the fourth in the past 13. So what? So, prior to 2014 (Ray Guy), only one — kicker Jan Stenerud — was enshrined in six decades. But that was then and this is now … and now Guy, Morten Andersen (2017), Devin Hester (2024) and Vinatieri (2026) have broken the glass ceiling."
The Bolding is mine... and this excludes kickers who also played other positions such as Blanda and Groza.
Belichick doesn't belong but Vinatieri does?
In what world does that sound right?