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00:02I could not believe that he was not elected to the Hall of Fame.
00:06It's a travesty.
00:08I think it's a crime.
00:09It's the ultimate snub.
00:10They're not Hall of Famers.
00:11Come on, what a joke.
00:18The Hall of Fame is the NFL's highest honor, and enshrinement day is well worth the wait.
00:24It was fun.
00:25What a ride.
00:26Take a look at these guys.
00:27What a team it is.
00:27Our motto is a commitment to excellence, and I told Al one time that I should have been committed a
00:33long time ago.
00:34This is a team you can campaign for.
00:37Put a thing on me and dunk myself.
00:40I got Hall of Fame members, and they don't.
00:43But only writers can get you in.
00:45There is no Hall of Fame that is more difficult to get into.
00:49Numbers aren't the only answer.
00:51Are they slanted towards offense?
00:52We're still trying to figure out a stat for a right guard.
00:54All it takes is one or two guys who, look, I just don't like this guy.
00:58I want you in here.
01:00It's for stealing.
01:01To make our list of the top ten players not in the Hall of Fame, a player had to have
01:06been rejected at least once by the voters.
01:08Be delayed, but not denied.
01:10That's what the Bible says.
01:11Sorry, Dion.
01:12Our criteria is tough.
01:14Was there a point in your career where people thought you were the best at your position?
01:19When you watched this guy play, you said, I'm watching something really special here.
01:25Can you tell the story of the NFL and not include his name?
01:30The number ten player not in the Hall of Fame, Ken Anderson.
01:34Way, way too old.
01:35It didn't help Ken Anderson that he had an awful mustache.
01:39That does not look good on a bust.
01:41You understand?
01:41Am I going to be immortalized in the Hall of Fame with a crop duster?
01:47If NFL computers were programmed to construct the ideal quarterback, they would print out Kenny Anderson.
01:56I definitely believe Ken Anderson belongs in the Hall of Fame.
01:59He was an NFL MVP, a four-time pro bowler, a four-time NFL passing champion.
02:05What a pro from a four-time pass arena.
02:07And he played with consistency for 16 years.
02:10Only Steve Young has done it since the stat was made up in 1973.
02:17Him and Steve Young.
02:20He absolutely should be in the Hall of Fame, 100%.
02:23You could put his statistics up against 75% of the quarterbacks that are in the Hall of Fame.
02:28And he will have them beat in every particular category.
02:34If you look at his 1974 and 1975 seasons, they're some of the best seasons of all time.
02:42He was completing 62% of his passes at a time when the NFL average was 52%.
02:46If I had a son who was right-handed and I wanted him to watch somebody throw the football, watch
02:51him just perform, watch his foot work and watch his arm, Kenny Anderson would be as good as any.
02:55Heck, I just want Kenny Anderson's name to appear on the final 25 or 15.
03:00Kenny Anderson can't get in that room.
03:01There's like a barricade on that door.
03:03Kenny Anderson usually came up with a lot of competition.
03:07I was a Kenny Anderson man.
03:09But if there were other people that were better, and sometimes there were, then it was tough and Kenny didn't
03:13make it.
03:16But it was our number 10 player, not Joe Montana, who proved the West Coast offense could work in the
03:22NFL.
03:22He was the first quarterback that really ran the West Coast offense that Bill Walsh took from Cincinnati and instilled
03:29out in San Francisco with his modifications.
03:31Kenny Anderson was a pioneer.
03:33Anderson back to throw, looks, fires into the end zone, touchdown!
03:37I don't know if that means he's a Hall of Famer, but I think it means he shouldn't be forgotten.
03:42Kenny right now is probably the epitome of the NFL quarterbacks.
03:46To run the kind of offense that we're running right now, you have to be able to read defenses almost
03:50flawlessly.
03:52The temperature in greater Cincinnati has dropped to 9 below.
03:56We're talking a wind-chilled 59 degrees below zero.
04:00He played another great quarterback who's in the Hall of Fame, and who also deserves to be in the Hall
04:04of Fame,
04:04and that's Dan Fouts in the biggest game of Dan Fouts' career.
04:07The Freezer Bowl in Cincinnati for the AFC title in 1981.
04:11And who won the game?
04:12Dan Fouts got in the Hall of Fame.
04:16Kevin Winslow Sr., John Jefferson.
04:21Not John Jefferson, Wes Chandler.
04:24And Charlie Joyner.
04:26You didn't say what's doing to nobody.
04:29Hall of Fame, and Ken Anderson beat him.
04:31The Bengals put this AFC title away.
04:34I think that's a silly argument.
04:36Frank Ryan beat Johnny Unitas in the 1964 NFL championship game.
04:42Is somebody going to tell me that Frank Ryan should be in the Hall of Fame and Johnny Unitas shouldn't?
04:48I think the fact that he never had great postseason success will always hurt him.
04:53Why is Dan Fouts in the Hall of Fame?
04:54Here's Anderson back passing.
04:55Throws a pass over the door.
04:57And is it accepted by right?
04:58Ken Anderson, yeah, he won the Super Bowl after the 1981 season against the 49ers.
05:04I don't believe he's in there.
05:06The 49ers have hit him.
05:07He would definitely be in the Hall of Fame.
05:08The 49ers have won it.
05:10The Cincinnati Bengals get the Super Bowl.
05:13It wasn't his fault they lost.
05:1526-21 close game.
05:16Heck of a player.
05:17But when I think of Hall of Famer, I don't want to have to think about whether he's a Hall
05:21of Famer.
05:22I want to know, you know what?
05:24Roger Stolbach is a Hall of Famer.
05:25John O.A., Hall of Famer.
05:26With Anderson, you've got to think about it.
05:28If you're a quarterback looking to get in the Hall of Fame and you never won a Super Bowl,
05:33your argument is very thin, very weak.
05:36Ken Anderson didn't do that.
05:37I cannot take any argument that he should be in seriously because of that.
05:42In the Hall of Fame tonight, the kicking of Jan Stenner stands as a pure special teams player.
05:47It gives me a sense of pride and accomplishment, but most of all, I feel very, very lucky.
05:54It's a travesty.
05:56I think it's a crime.
05:57It's an injustice.
05:58Those were very kind words, and I appreciate them very much.
06:01There's still a prejudice among the voters.
06:09More than Anderson actually got in after this came out.
06:13On December 16, 2006, Morton Anderson kicked his way into immortality as the league's all-time scorer.
06:22Morton Anderson has just become the NFL's all-time career scorer.
06:27However, scoring over 2,500 points has yet to sway the voters, much like this other special teamer who did
06:35make our list.
06:36The number nine player not in the Hall of Fame, Steve Tasker.
06:48Steve Tasker defined what a special team player is.
06:53Even Bill Parcells told Marv Levy that he had to game plan around Steve Tasker.
06:59This man was the greatest special teams player of all time.
07:06He played an incredibly vital role on that team, and that team dominated the AFC for four or five years.
07:13Marv Levy called him one time the most important man on his team.
07:17Most important man on his team, that's a team with Bruce Smith, Jim Kelly, Andre Reid, Thurman Thomas, who were
07:23in the Hall of Fame.
07:24James Lofton was also in the Hall of Fame.
07:28Most important guy on the team with five Hall of Famers, and he can't get in the Hall of Fame.
07:35Have a good one, pal.
07:36That wasn't just, okay, nice try-hard guy.
07:40Steve Tasker is really a world-class athlete.
07:43He was generally considered, by consensus, the best special teams player in the league over a good period of time.
07:51He was a very good cover man.
07:53He was a very good kick blocker.
07:55And the kick is blocked!
07:56Steve Tasker!
07:57Can you say special teams?
07:59He's the best I've ever seen at covering kicks, covering punts.
08:02And he could make a play for you every once in a while on the way out position.
08:06Throw to the end zone.
08:07He's a solid receiver.
08:08Jim Kelly, the quarterback, lobbied all the time to get Marv Levy to let him play wide receiver.
08:14But Levy wouldn't let him.
08:16Most coaches don't want to waste their good players on special teams.
08:19Well, Marv Levy...
08:25They're not Hall of Famers.
08:26I mean, you've got to play the game totally.
08:29As a matter of fact, special teams is a third of the game.
08:33Special teams is one third of the game.
08:35Third of the game.
08:36Special teams is not a third of the game.
08:37If it was really a third of the game, you'd see special teamers being drafted in the first round all
08:42the time.
08:42I think it's hard to put a special teams guy in the Hall of Fame.
08:45They might be great at it, but why is he on special teams?
08:47Because he can't start on offense and he can't start on defense.
08:50When you talk about the Hall of Fame, it's a very special thing.
08:53And to put a kicker in there or a special teams guy, you're basically spitting on the face of Dick
08:58Butkus.
08:58Oh, man.
09:00And he doesn't like that very much.
09:03That's a stupid take.
09:04I think there's definitely a case to make for a special teams guy.
09:07And I think Steve Tasker should be the first name you think of.
09:10It's ridiculous that Steve Tasker...
09:12It's ridiculous...
09:13Five-time first-team All-Pro deserves Hall of Fame.
09:16It's ridiculous that Steve Tasker is not in the Hall of Fame.
09:19If I had to vote, I'd vote for Steve Tasker.
09:20If you're going to say how important special teams are, then if the player that's the best ever at that
09:26certain craft isn't in the Hall of Fame, then you're talking out of both sides of your mouth.
09:31Is Steve Tasker the best special team player ever, which I think he is?
09:34That's the most spectacular special teams player I have ever seen.
09:39He's first ballot.
09:40That's all she wrote, guys.
09:41The number eight player now in the Hall of Fame, Alex Caron.
09:45You think of Buckus for the Bears, and you think of Karras for the Lions.
09:50I always thought he was a beast.
09:51Our number eight selection was nicknamed the Mad Duck.
09:55I wobble because my legs are so small.
09:57That's probably why I'm not in the National Football League Hall of Fame, is because I was the Wild Duck
10:02instead of the Ruffian Bear.
10:05Wild Ducks wouldn't get in the Hall of Fame.
10:08But maybe there were other reasons.
10:10Alex Karras, you played against him. Should he be in Canton?
10:13No.
10:15Alex was a dirty football player.
10:17Really?
10:18He wasn't the cleanest player in the world, I could say that.
10:24He was the toughness of the Detroit Lions.
10:28And that's the goal, and Karras clobbers him!
10:38This idea that I was this ruffian, this rough, tough character, and I played that role,
10:44because when you get dubbed that role, you might as well play that role.
10:47But our number eight selection's most memorable roles came not on the football field.
10:52Over 100 sacks as a defensive tackle should have been in the Hall of Fame decades ago.
10:58And he missed the field, but the silver screen.
11:03Pretty good football player, pretty bad actor.
11:06Actually, I was a fan of his acting career, and when he played the tough guy, bouncer, gay friend in
11:12Victor Victoria,
11:13I thought that was a pretty good role out of Alex Karras, and I don't hold Webster against him either.
11:18I don't think it was much of a reach to see an older ex-football player and a loving wife
11:22adopt a cute little kid like Emanuel Lewis.
11:25I think everybody does that, don't they?
11:28I think that helps Alex Karras' cause.
11:31You know, when you think of Alex Karras, you think of a character more so than a football player.
11:35This is a guy who's a movie star, who had that little failed attempt at Monday Night Football.
11:41When the game acts like men work together, win or lose, New York Jets keep rolling along.
11:48Isn't that terrific?
11:48That's going to hurt him for eternity when it comes to the Hall of Fame.
11:51He was a very borderline candidate.
11:54To begin with, a gambling issue was a...
11:57Borderline...
11:57Negative maybe breaks a tie in the minds of some voters.
12:02He got caught gambling with Paul Horne.
12:04I think there was more gambling going on in those two guys, but those two guys missed 1963.
12:09I never said that I was wrong, and I didn't kiss anyone's ass to get back in.
12:13Alex was never contrite about that, the way Paul Horne was.
12:17Consequently, Paul Horne went into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
12:20The Golden Boy, Paul Horne.
12:23And Karras has been barred.
12:29I don't think he makes it on merit.
12:31I just don't think he was that dominating a football player.
12:34George Wilson, who was the coach back in the 50s, called Alex Karras the best defensive tackle you ever saw.
12:41He was really unblockable in our era.
12:44I'll always remember Alex Karras as one of the very, very best inside football players that ever played.
12:50He was one of the great defensive linemen of all time.
12:53He belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, without question.
12:57If he is eighth in your list, I want to know who won two and three.
13:03Jimi Hendrix.
13:04Jimi Hendrix did things on the guitar nobody had seen before.
13:07He was busted, people.
13:08That's highlight reel material forever.
13:10We had never seen a back not multidimensional.
13:13The fact that he was the...
13:14Karras just now got in the Hall of Fame.
13:17The first back in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards and receive for 1,000 yards in the
13:22same season is all the proof that you need.
13:24He did something nobody else had ever done, and winning championships at the same time.
13:28Roger Craig should be in the Hall of Fame.
13:29Roger was righteous, but sorry, Bay Area.
13:32We're going with a different 49er running back.
13:35The number seven player not in the Hall of Fame, Ricky Waters.
13:39Ricky put up far greater numbers.
13:42His numbers probably dwarf people that are in the Hall of Fame.
13:44With over 10,000 yards rushing and more than 4,000 yards receiving, our number seven player has more total
13:51yards than many backs already in Canton.
13:54When you look at Ricky Waters' numbers, you say he's a Hall of Famer.
13:57Ricky Waters passes the 10,000-yard milestone.
14:01Let the Waters run.
14:02When you look at Ricky Waters as a person, you say, man, you should buy a ticket to get in
14:06there.
14:07F*** that.
14:08I need the ball.
14:09I'll get mine.
14:10Here's what you remember about Ricky Waters.
14:12All the other stuff.
14:16Don't people don't go by the roof.
14:18Oh, he's got smash, smash, loud, loud, loud, Ricky Waters scores.
14:22The greatest of all time.
14:24Move up, Riley.
14:26But you've got to let guys with a little bit of swagger to them, especially at that running back position.
14:30You want a guy back there who believes that he can run through walls and nobody's going to stop him
14:34and he's going to let you know about it.
14:35I'm young.
14:35I'm pretty.
14:36And can't possibly be beat.
14:38Wasn't afraid to run his mouth a little bit.
14:40I am good at talking.
14:41He's a very emotional player.
14:44Think of Ricky Waters and you think of water.
14:46You think of the tears coming out of his eyes.
14:48His emotion to a lot of people was the greater focus than his talent.
14:54I like the way he plays on the field.
14:56I just wish he'd shut up his mouth.
14:58I don't think that should be a strike against them.
15:00Some of the greatest players in the history of the game are some of the most wacky personalities you could
15:05find.
15:06You've got to just judge these guys on what they did on the football field.
15:09I'm not going to argue with him.
15:11Huh.
15:14The question with Ricky Waters, you know, what is his defining moment?
15:18He had five touchdowns in a playoff game.
15:20He had five touchdowns in a playoff game against the Giants.
15:27The one thing that he doesn't have is a championship pedigree.
15:31Hello?
15:31He had three touchdowns in that Super Bowl.
15:33He had three touchdowns in a Super Bowl.
15:36But Ricky Waters gets lost.
15:38He never won the big thing.
15:40What?
15:42Never got the shine in a Super Bowl.
15:45That might hurt him a little bit.
15:48Young six touchdowns.
15:55He also jumped ship right after that.
15:56He was gone.
15:57It was a mutual disaster that he left the Niners.
15:59They talking about they don't respect me.
16:01They're going to respect me now.
16:02Both parties went down because of it.
16:04The Niners have not won a Super Bowl since Ricky Waters left.
16:07They still haven't won a Super Bowl since.
16:09Against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the vet, late in the game,
16:13Randall Cunningham threw a pass to him over the middle that Ricky Alligate won.
16:17He did not stretch all the way out for it.
16:19Eagles lost the opener.
16:20He didn't want to take the hit.
16:22He did not extend for that football advantage.
16:25For who?
16:25For what?
16:25In the first game, news conference, somebody asked Ricky about not Andy's head.
16:29For who?
16:29For what?
16:30For who?
16:31For what?
16:31He says for who?
16:33For what?
16:33He was done.
16:34He was done.
16:34Done, done, done.
16:38I heard some boos out there.
16:39I mean, how can I get boos?
16:411,200 yards.
16:42What are you boeing about?
16:431,500 yards all purpose.
16:45I'm balling.
16:46I don't know that Jim Brown would have ever said,
16:48you want me to get hit for who?
16:49For what?
16:50Jim Brown would have said, yeah, give me the ball.
16:51I'm going to hit you.
16:52If Waters is good enough, I don't think that's going to keep him out of hand.
16:55When the Hall of Fame voters get in that room and Ricky Waters' name comes up,
17:00I guarantee you, for what?
17:03That'll haunt him forever.
17:06The number six player not in the Hall of Fame, Tony Buscelli.
17:10He's in now.
17:12So in my mind, any argument anybody wants to make about TD, Terrell Davis being in the Hall of Fame,
17:18the exact same argument can be made for Tony Buscelli, except Tony Buscelli was even better than Terrell Davis.
17:24Tony Buscelli was, for two or three seasons, the best offensive lineman in the NFL.
17:29Because when you tell the story of the NFL, when you talk about the 90s, it's impossible not to mention
17:35Tony Buscelli because he was clearly one of the best top two or three in his position.
17:39In recent years, the Pro Football Hall of Fame has given offensive linemen their due, electing John Ogden and Orlando
17:46Pace for one of their contemporary, Tony Buscelli.
17:50For five years, forget Ogden, forget Orlando Pace, I love those guys.
17:56But Tony Buscelli was the best left tackle in the NFL.
18:00He also had a good run.
18:03Had a good run on some good Jacksonville Jaguar teams.
18:07You know, some offenses that Mark Brunel, Jimmy Smith, and Keenan McCardell, those guys were able to do a lot
18:13of good things.
18:14And Tony Buscelli was the bell count on that offensive line.
18:17They were the outstanding young franchise that came from nowhere.
18:21And one of the cornerstones of that was Tony Buscelli.
18:24Think about the Jaguars team that beat John Elway and the Broncos in the playoffs.
18:29The Jaguars are going to the championship game.
18:32And they have stunned John Elway.
18:35Those were the Tony Buscelli eras in Jacksonville.
18:39Hmm.
18:40You know why we're here today?
18:42You got to take care of business.
18:43Because we are bad and we're better this season.
18:45And you're going to rip their ass.
18:47Yeah, that's good.
18:48Tony Buscelli didn't just block guys.
18:50Tony Buscelli physically punished other human beings.
18:55And I love him for it.
18:57He had that nasty mindset that we all want to have in our offensive line.
19:02Buscelli was that good.
19:06Tony Buscelli was one of those guys that was the dominant guy.
19:10And then had it all taken away by injury.
19:13First and ten from the 49.
19:15Jacksonville back with it.
19:17Oh, no.
19:19Oh, no.
19:20That may be Tony Buscelli.
19:23Tony Buscelli was a real good player.
19:25Who probably, if he had not had injuries in his career, shortened by injuries, I think probably would be a
19:31Hall of Fame.
19:31When you talk about the loss of Tony Buscelli, it really, it's a huge impact on this offense.
19:38The prime of his career was probably a little too short to qualify for the Hall of Fame.
19:43Tony Buscelli, yes, he's iconic to the people of Duval County.
19:48Is he a Hall of Famer, though?
19:50Come on.
19:51I'm not so sure I would say Tony's a Hall of Famer.
19:54Very good player, but I'm not sure he did it long enough at that position to be a Hall of
19:59Famer.
19:59It's a little different than some of the skilled positions.
20:01If you're the best in the game at what you do for five or six years at that position, then
20:07you should be in the Hall of Fame.
20:09I think he'll eventually get in, even if it's on the Veterans Committee.
20:13He may even make it to the 15 one of these years, but I kind of think he's not going
20:17to make it to the Hall of Fame.
20:18It's purely because his body broke down.
20:21The number five player not in the Hall of Fame, Cliff Branch.
20:27He's in the Hall of Fame.
20:28What's the first thing that comes to your mind when I say Cliff Branch?
20:30Speed.
20:31Speed.
20:32Speed.
20:33Total speed.
20:34As they, too, found that on the Gridiron Highway, speed does kill.
20:42I think Cliff Branch was a game-changing kind of receiver.
20:46He was a guy that didn't catch an extremely high volume of passes, but for a team like the Raiders,
20:52who relied really well on them, and they were a deep ball-throwing team, and you needed a big deep
20:59ball threat.
21:00I mean, Branch was exactly what he was.
21:02Cliff Branch was a deep threat before they were real deep threats, in an era where you didn't throw deep,
21:09and you didn't try to stretch the defense.
21:11Only the Raiders did.
21:12Cliff Branch was one of the first guys who could go out there to just stretch the defense.
21:18He was one of the guys that they feared the most.
21:20I know Al Davis always talked about that the player, that the defenses always fear the most.
21:26Talk to track.
21:27Here comes the Raiders.
21:28But he has time.
21:29He's going with a deep bomb.
21:30The finance.
21:31Makes the catch at the 20.
21:33And the first bomb of Super Bowl 18 has been down for him.
21:37Talk to track.
21:38Throw it.
21:39Way up the field.
21:40Branch, plenty of riddle.
21:41Makes the catch at the 30-down.
21:43He's going in.
21:44$99.
21:46Touchdown.
21:46He was 35 doing that.
21:49You see how good he was, and what an impact he had on one of the game's most dynamic offenses.
21:56I think you can make a very strong case for him as a Hall of Famer.
22:02Branch averaged an astonishing 24.2 yards per catch and 79 receiving yards per game in 1976.
22:10But it was another number that made him a trendsetter amongst his peers.
22:14He wasn't just a blazer running, but he was a trailblazer because he wore that 21.
22:2021?
22:21Cool.
22:21The minute they see that 2-1, oh, it's Cliff Branch.
22:24Like, he had that idea for Harold Carmichael.
22:27Double zero for Ken Burrow.
22:28I mean, to me, it's iconic.
22:30I don't think that enough receivers wear number 21 or anything like that.
22:34I think that's a rule that needs to be changed in the NFL.
22:37But he definitely needs to be in it.
22:38He was there with two different quarterbacks, catching all those touchdowns.
22:41Huge part of those teams.
22:43Throwing a deep bomb, going to Branch against Libers.
22:46Libers knocks it down.
22:48Branch catches it.
22:49Touchdown, Raiders.
22:54Why does Swan make it and Branch is out?
22:56It's your fault.
22:57It's your fault.
22:58It's NFL Films' fault.
22:59Because you've shown those Lin Swan catches from Super Bowl X.
23:04How many times?
23:06100 times.
23:08Just about.
23:15Cliff Branch, though, was a more consistent player than Lin Swan.
23:19And he was a scarier player, I guarantee you, to defensive backs than Lin Swan.
23:23Look how fast he is.
23:27I think that's a fair comparison when you look at Cliff Branch and Lin Swan.
23:32And if Lin Swan still got in with John Starworth being really the better receiver,
23:37then why shouldn't Cliff Branch have a legitimate argument to get in,
23:41even though Fred Belitnikoff is on the other side?
23:44And Cliff Branch has championships as well.
23:47It's a good argument.
23:48They stumped me there a little bit.
23:49That's a good comparison.
23:51And maybe Cliff Branch gets in.
23:54The number four player not in the Hall of Fame.
23:57Terrell Davis.
23:58He got in, too.
24:00Terrell Davis absolutely, positively belongs in the Hall,
24:04and he belongs in there right now.
24:06This is the most ridiculous exclusion, probably, of all time.
24:11You know, I'll say Tom Flores, number one.
24:14Terrell Davis, number two.
24:16You cannot tell the story of the 1990s without talking about Terrell.
24:21Hey, got a rink.
24:23Tom Flores got in, too, after this.
24:26Here goes Terrell Davis.
24:27Big hole.
24:27P.D.
24:28Still in his feet.
24:2930, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5.
24:33Touchdown!
24:33You've got to be really, really, really special to be in the Hall of Fame.
24:39Terrell Davis, for the years he played, was special.
24:42And he is a fabulous player.
24:46And, yeah, you could throw a guy into that Denver offense and get a good performance,
24:50but when it was Clinton Portis, it was a great performance.
24:53And when it was Terrell Davis, it was a transcendent, historic performance.
24:57You shouldn't throw a guy in there in 2001.
25:08I don't want to make it just about that Super Bowl XXXII, but keep in mind, he barely touched
25:12the field in the second quarter, and he went for 158 in that one.
25:17But the 158 he put up were man-style kind of yards.
25:21You've got to go out and measure him and say,
25:26Terrell Davis definitely was.
25:28It's a crime against football to not be the best among his peers.
25:33This is an era with Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, Marshall Foggett, Jerome Bettis, Thurman Thomas.
25:42Who am I forgetting?
25:47Yeah, those guys, Ricky Waters, to be the best when those guys are playing is something.
25:56I'd have Terrell Davis in the Hall of Fame.
26:01He ran right when the Broncos had basically embedded their version of the zone blocking scheme.
26:08And you look, there were some gigantic holes.
26:10Not to take anything away from Terrell Davis, that blocking scheme in that line was also pretty good.
26:15That thing was blocked so well by the left side of the offensive line.
26:20Terrell Davis, a very good player, in my mind, not a Hall of Famer because of how good that
26:25offensive line was for him during that time.
26:28Really?
26:30Terrell Davis, look at when he's playing.
26:32He's playing with Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, Jerome Bettis, Curtis Martin, and so on.
26:38He's league at that time.
26:39I knew I forgot.
26:40And he is unquestionably, for a three-year period, the best of them.
26:43He was one of the best running backs of his era.
26:46There is no way that you can keep him out of the Hall of Fame.
26:48If it's come down to something where you're like, ah, he didn't play long enough, why is
26:52Gale Sayers in the Hall of Fame?
26:53Gale Sayers?
26:56You all know how great Gale Sayers was in the short time in which he played in the National
27:01Football League.
27:02He tore his ACL, never played again.
27:04He's in the Hall of Fame.
27:06To me, Terrell Davis belongs in the Hall of Fame because of what he accomplished in the
27:11time that he played.
27:12That window that Terrell Davis put up, like I say, for about three years is as dominant
27:17a run as we've seen since probably Earl Campbell.
27:22But longevity, I think, is part of it, unless you have a player like Jim Brown or Gale Sayers.
27:28As good as TD was, he's not Jim Brown or Gale Sayers, obviously.
27:33It's not like I'm breaking news here.
27:36So he hurt his knee and he didn't play for 12 years.
27:39Give him a gold jacket already.
27:40It's ridiculous.
27:42Drew Pearson was a big help to Roger Staubach.
27:45He got me in the Hall of Fame with those catches.
27:49But couldn't get himself onto our list.
27:51Drew Pearson, he's in the Hall of Fame.
27:52Roger goes deep for Drew Pearson.
27:54Touchdown!
27:55Terrell Carmichael jumped his way to 79 touchdowns and a spot on the 1970s All-Decade team.
28:02Carmichael with a good catch.
28:05Otis Taylor won 3A.
28:08The city.
28:09That's the way Otis.
28:10That's it, boys.
28:11But soon gets asked about Canton.
28:13When are they going to?
28:14A question you might hear from our number 3 player.
28:18The number 3 player not in the Hall of Fame.
28:21Tiki Barber.
28:23Really?
28:24You know.
28:27Some were very excited about Tiki's inclusion.
28:30I am so glad my colleague Tiki is finally getting a little bit of love from you guys.
28:36Do we see Tiki on any of these lists?
28:39Well, others, not so much.
28:41Tiki Barber's on this list?
28:43This is an abomination.
28:44Did Tiki Barber put this list together?
28:46Nobody likes Tiki Barber.
28:48Not even his own brother, probably.
28:50You put Tiki on this list just top set Giants fans.
28:54To me, I'm like Tiki Barber's off the list.
28:56Not in the top 10.
28:57Tiki bothers me a little bit.
28:59There were well-thought-out answers on why Barber should be in Canton.
29:03There's nothing Tiki Barber could not do.
29:05He was an outstanding runner between the tackles.
29:07He could catch the ball.
29:09He could get to the outside.
29:10He had what I call jukeability to make guys miss.
29:14He's all very good.
29:15He had a fumble-y fun.
29:17He has to wait for one miss.
29:20Barber to the 10.
29:21Bollies, McTank Miller, touchdown.
29:24Tiki Barber, he should be in the Hall of Fame with a name like that.
29:27I think Tiki Barber has twice as good a chance of being in the Hall of Fame as anyone else.
29:31Because if he doesn't make it, and Rondé does make it, he can still go in there and take a
29:35picture next to the bus.
29:38Don't worry.
29:39Our logic for Tiki Barber being in the Hall of Fame is completely sane.
29:46Tiki is the most productive running back in one of the most storied franchises' history.
29:52He was a 10,000-yard rusher.
29:54He was a three-time Pro Bowler.
29:55Probably one of the best players in the NFL in 2004, 2005, 2006.
30:00If those are your qualifications for the Hall of Fame, yes, Tiki Barber is a Hall of Famer.
30:04Hallelujah!
30:05He can't be a Hall of Famer with three Pro Bowl years.
30:09That's running back in 100 years of Giants football.
30:13Tiki Barber!
30:16Tiki Barber!
30:18Tiki currently holds the Giants' rushing records for most yards in franchise history,
30:23most yards in a game, and has the top three rushing seasons for any player that wore big blue.
30:28All the men that got Tiki, we got to stop Tiki up for us now.
30:32You see, they're trying to give the ball every play.
30:33The announcement of Tiki's retirement came in the middle of the 2006 season.
30:37His last game was scheduled to be Week 17 against the rival Redskins.
30:42In 2006, when he ran against the Redskins, he ran them into, literally ran the Giants into the playoffs.
30:48In a win-and-end situation for the Giants, Barber broke his own single-game record with 234 yards and
30:56three touchdowns to put the New York Giants into the postseason.
31:00Draw for Barber, squeaks left.
31:02Tiki runs out of a tackle.
31:03Tiki across midfield.
31:04It was one of those games that he put the team on his back.
31:16You know, he willed this team to victory.
31:20Hand-off, Barber, runs right, finds his way through a hole, to the 40, 35-30.
31:27Barber to the 20, being chased from behind, to the 10, to the 5, touchdown!
31:31Touchdown! Tiki Barber, his second 50-plus run tonight!
31:37Bird Stork seemed fully convinced on Tiki's credentials.
31:41I guess I have to say that when you say Hall of Fame, I don't automatically associate that with Tiki
31:46Barber.
31:46In my personal opinion, I think he should go. I like him.
31:50That's going to be a tough call. He probably deserves it.
31:54I think pound for pound there's no better running back than New York Giants have ever had.
31:59You know what I mean?
32:01Meh. Meh.
32:03Since only a third of modern-era players in the Hall of Defensive...
32:07Son, that guy's a bad miss.
32:10...it's harder for them to make our countdown, like five-time football linebacker Tommy Nobis.
32:15Tommy was easily as good as Ray Netsky, Buttkiss.
32:19Bronco backer Randy Gratishar went to seven footballers.
32:22How could he not be on the list?
32:24I think it is an absolute tragedy that he is not in the football Hall of Fame.
32:29Cowboys linebacker Chuck Howley is the only player in NFL history to win Super Bowl MVP honors while playing on
32:35a losing team.
32:36Howley's in the Hall of Fame.
32:37The game was really about the Dallas defense, and the best player was Chuck Howley.
32:41The five-time All-Pro is considered by many as the greatest linebacker in franchised history.
32:48The number two player not in the Hall of Fame, Jim Marshall.
32:52Jim Marshall, you wonder why it's taking so long.
32:55I think Jim Marshall is one of the great overlooked names.
32:57This was the Iron Man of pro football.
32:59Come on, baby. Let it all hang out now.
33:02Nobody has done what Jim Marshall did.
33:05The durability, the endurance, the play defensive end for 20 seasons, for 282 consecutive games.
33:12Hey, come on, baby. Come on. Let's have a nice clean one, okay?
33:14I gave my absolute best. It's kind of like an airplane.
33:17You better keep your engines going or you're going to fall and pray.
33:21Our number two players, Hall Candidacy, has been in free fall since he retired,
33:25even though two of his fellow defensive linebackers,
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