Randall McDaniel: Class of 2009

We’ve been quite vocal about our belief that Randall McDaniel not only should be in the Hall of Fame, but that he should have been a first ballot guy.  In a little less than a week, McDaniel will finally be honored by the Hall–and, of course, we’ll be there for it.

In advance of this weekend’s festivities, we’re going to be looking for a lot of the local profiles that are being written by the inductees–starting with McDaniel.  The Star Tribune ran an impressive story about him Sunday, that illustrated many of the reasons that I’ve always found him to be one of my favorite players–from the quality of his play, to what an outstanding & humble person he is off the field, where today he works full time teaching kids with special education needs at a local Minnesota school.

Unfortunately, in their effort to make people buy the print edition of the paper, it appears that they have not put it on their Website (at least yet)–so I can’t link to it.  We’ll update this story with a link when (if) they get around to it–but in the mean time, here’s a video interview that they did with him.

UPDATE: This article isn’t the same one that appeared in the paper Sunday (despite a very similar headline), but it’s decent.