by Andy | Jun 3, 2009 | Hall of Fame, NFL News
Rodney Harrison is scheduled to make an announcement on his football future this afternoon, but the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald and Dan Patrick, on his Wednesday morning radio show, broke the news early.
The former Charger and Patriot safety will hang up his helmet and shoulder pads and join NBC’s Football Night in America.
I really like the move from a sports media standpoint. For a sport already short on good announcers that is already losing John Madden this season, Harrison can become one of the next generation of analysts. He’s well spoken, he’s a good analyst and I recall him bringing some humor along with his insights. This should be a very good move for him.
As a player he was a huge hitter, possibly the most intimidating safety of his era. He attempted to play one Super Bowl with a broken arm and yes, he was also injury prone through stretches of his career. He missed the last 10 games of his career with a thigh injury suffered last season.
He also had a reputation for being a dirty player and he was suspended at one point for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy, after which he admitted to taking human growth hormone to help him recover from injury.
On the Patrick show this morning, he acknowledged the mistake and that he knew what he was doing was wrong. “I put football in front of my family and in front of my life,” he said.
So there’s the long and short of Harrison. That makes Harrison a Hall of Fame candidate starting in 2014. Does he make it?
by Andy | Feb 11, 2009 | Hall of Fame, NFL News, NFL Random Thoughts
Could it be?
For the second offseason in a row, good ol’ number four is retiring.
Brett Favre has instructed his agent to tell the New York Jets he has decided to retire, according to ESPN.
Last year Zoneblitz predicted that Favre’s retirement would be short-lived. I had a hunch the guy would be back for at least one more last minute comeback win over my hometown Vikings.
I’m not 100 percent convinced he’s done for good this time, but I’m leaning toward believing it. Favre looked pretty rough the last quarter of the 2008 season. He can still fling the pig but with increasing frequency it ends up falling to the ground or fluttering into the hands of defensive players.
He’s not the same player in the cold either.
Nonetheless, if he does retire it’ll close the book on an interesting and at times amazing career. And when Tony gets around to writing the 2014 Hall of Fame post Favre’s name will definitely be on the list.
by Tony | Feb 10, 2009 | Hall of Fame
Our 2009 Pro Football Hall of Fame Inductees post had a lot of discussion around it, so we figured we’d better come back and take a chance at 2010.
First, taking a look back at 2009, we only hit 3 of the 5 non-senior inductees–Randall McDaniel, Derrick Thomas and first time eligible Bruce Smith. Also making it were first timer Rod Woodson, who we debated about including, and figured would make it in a year or two, and Bills owner Ralph Wilson, who snuck in despite not even being a finalist in 2007 or 2008, and seemed like a bit of stretch to me, given the recent way he’s treated the people of Buffalo with his team (the whole Toronto thing).
Regardless, here’s looking ahead to 2010:
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by Tony & Andy | Feb 1, 2009 | Hall of Fame, NFL ... something, NFL Random Thoughts
Tony P. brought up another good point in the Pro Football Hall of Fame 2010 Senior List post–since we’re coming up on the 2009 season, we might as well start looking forward to the Team of the Decade for 2000-2009.
So Andy and I put our heads together. We looked at past All-Decade teams and did some quick and dirty research on the past decade’s post-season profiles. Several positions had a glut of superstars while others were lacking. So we decided to not focus on naming a specific number of players from any given spot but on recognizing players with sustained stretches of great play.
Feel free to let us know what you think.
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by Tony | Jan 31, 2009 | Hall of Fame
Back in August, we announced who we thought would be the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2009. Since then, there have been over 200 comments left on that post, and even more on subsequent postings about who might make it, and what senior candidates should be considered.
And today, we found out who made the cut:
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by Tony | Jan 30, 2009 | Hall of Fame
Alright, to take a cue from Tony P. on the 2009 Hall of Fame thread, we’re posting a potential list of senior candidates for the Class of 2010 Hall of Fame induction. Feel free to leave your comments below.
Also, we’ll likely be posting our thoughts on the Class of 2009 on Saturday after the announcement, and we’ll probably have a 2010 prediction thread going shortly after the annoucement as well.
Tony P.’s full 2010 Senior Candidate list is after the jump–thanks for taking the time to pull that together…
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Robert we’ll miss you but I do have a point though maybe I’ll take a hiatus from posting here for…
Andy Can we please move on its getting old and stale because you wont stop on this topic im done…
I feel bad for all the voters who were removed
If only if Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft had been elected then these changes wouldn’t have happened
The Pro Football Hall of Fame will never be the same after these changes