Bettis voted into Hall of Fame; Show shut out

In a couple of tweets about an hour ago, Jerome Bettis, while thanking the Steelers and never mentioning the Rams organization that drafted him, announced he's been voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Well, it's a well-deserved honor anyway, so congratulations to Bettis.


Bettis will not be joined by any other former Rams, as Kurt Warner and Orlando Pace were preposterously shut out. The rest of the Class of 2015:

* Tim Brown
* Charles Haley
* Junior Seau
* Will Shields
* Mick Tingelhoff (Seniors selection)
* Bill Polian (Contributors selection)
* Ron Wolf (Contributors selection)

I had predicted Warner and Pace in over Bettis and Shields but got the other 3, not that Seau was a very challenging prediction. Shields over Pace is not a complete shock, as I've mentioned in past Hall of Fame posts. He's one of the great guards of all time and played in something like 12 Pro Bowls. He had numbers on Pace. I called Brown over Marvin Harrison, even though Harrison finished higher in last year's voting.

I think this just goes to show how much the national football media is just shitting on St. Louis as a football city right now. Pace was consistently described as a first-ballot HoFer just like his contemporaries Walter Jones and Jonathan Ogden, and Warner's story alone should have landed him in Canton on the first try, let alone his Super Bowl records (the TOP THREE passing yardage games) and career stats damn similar to Troy Aikman's.

So, there goes my trip to northern Ohio this summer, and with Brett Favre an obvious induction for the 2016 class, I can already forget about getting a room for that induction in case any of the Greatest Show heroes make that class. No, seriously. Green Bay fans reportedly already have everything bought up. Thanks a lot, assholes writers.

Reports say Warner, Pace and Kevin Greene all made the top ten, along with Tony Dungy and Marvin Harrison. Don Coryell, Terrell Davis, Morten Andersen, Jimmy Johnson and John Lynch finished 11th thru 15th. (I don't believe the actual order of finish is revealed, only who made the top ten.) The 6-thru-10 players OUGHT to make up most of the 2016 induction class. That will obviously have Favre, but better damn sure not have T.O. in it the first time around. If the entire Greatest Show has to wait a year, he'd better the hell have to wait. My guess for the 2016 class is the three Rams plus Favre and Dungy. Just in time to effing showcase L.A. in the Hall of Fame Game. Probably against the Packers.

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