Aeneas Williams, Greene, Bettis among HoF finalists

The finalists for consideration for the 2012 Pro Football Hall of Fame induction class have been named.
There are 15 modern-day players and two Seniors Committee nominees:

Jerome Bettis
Kevin Greene
Aeneas Williams
Tim Brown
Jack Butler (Seniors Committee)
Cris Carter
Dermontti Dawson
Edward DeBartolo Jr.
Chris Doleman
Charles Haley
Cortez Kennedy
Curtis Martin
Bill Parcells
Andre Reed
Willie Roaf
Will Shields
Dick Stanfel (Seniors Committee)

Bettis is a finalist for the second straight year.
Williams and Greene are finalists for the first time.
All the finalists who weren't inducted last year are back as finalists this year.

I'd like to congratulate almost everyone on this list, but the voting committee disgraced the Hall of Fame, the NFL, the sport of football and themselves by elevating criminal scumbag and relentless NFL rules violator Edward DeBartolo to finalist status. The Baseball Hall of Fame won't allow the sport's all-time hits leader in, and probably won't receive the current all-time home runs leader, either, once he becomes eligible, because they were rules-breakers and/or law-breakers. But the football writers will allow dirtbags like DeBartolo, who broke the law and repeatedly cheated on the league's salary cap rules, to edge closer and closer to the Hall. I don't get it. What, is he bribing a bunch of voters like he bribed the governor of Louisiana?

Yes, I know the Hall of Fame has the bust of a double murderer in there, something else they really need to fix.

The 2012 induction class will be voted on February 4th. I'll stick with my guesses from last time:
Bettis, Carter, Martin, Parcells and Roaf. Having learned that Stanfel was a past finalist, let's add him, too.

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