The problem with running a Hall of Fame-related website is that many of the big ones we cover all have announcements within months of each other.  The backbone of what we do is list-related, resulting in a long push to revise what we already have, specifically now with our Football and Basketball Lists.

At present, we have a minor update as we have completed the next twenty-five of the 2024 Football List, which you can comment on and vote on:

The new 176 to 200:

176. Dick Barwegan
177. Charley Hennigan
178. Cornell Green
179. Charley Brock
180. Bob Baumhower
161. Tank Younger
182. Buford “Baby” Ray
183. Bob Hoernschemeyer
184. Asante Samuel
185. Rich Jackson
186. Jim Katcavage
187. Matt Blair
188. Ken Kavanaugh
189. Abe Woodson
190. Nate Newton
191. Tom Sestak
192. Bill Forester
193. Brian Waters
194. Tim McDonald
195. Don Perkins
196. Steven Jackson
197. Jim Lachey
198. Brandon Marshall
198. Butch Byrd
199. Frank Minnifield
200. Dave Krieg

Rankings are impacted annually based on your comments and votes.

Thank you all for your patience. We will soon unveil more changes to the football and basketball lists.

Bob Baumhower spent his entire pro career with the Miami Dolphins, and for most of those years, he anchored the defensive line. He arrived in 1977 as a second-round pick out of Alabama and stepped in at nose tackle right away. He started all but one of the 130 games he played.

He made the Pro Bowl in 1979, then strung together four more from 1981 through 1984. In each of those seasons he earned either first-team or second-team All-Pro recognition, with the first-team nod coming in 1983. That year Pro Football Weekly named him its Defensive Player of the Year. In the early 1980s, the Dolphins reached two Super Bowls, and Baumhower's work in the middle was a big part of how the defense held up against the run and created problems for opposing centers.

What made him effective was less about pure size and more about technique and leverage. At 6-foot-5, he was taller than many nose tackles of the era, but he used his length and quickness to clog the A-gaps and occupy blockers. Teammates on the “Killer B’s” defense said he consistently took on double teams and still managed to disrupt the play. The Dolphins’ defense led the league in total defense during the strike-shortened 1982 season, and Baumhower was the constant in that group.

Knee and ankle problems cost him the entire 1985 season. He returned for one more year in 1986, but his production dropped off, and he retired afterward. The Dolphins added him to their Honor Roll in 2008.

With Miami, Baumhower recorded 39.5 sacks and started all but one of his 130 games.

A member of the prestigious Miami Dolphins Honor Roll, Bob Baumhower, played all nine of his NFL seasons with the team from Southern Florida.  A former star with the Alabama Crimson Tide, Baumhower was a five-time Pro Bowl Selection, and he was chosen for an All-Pro roster (one First Team and four Second Team) in all of those years.  Baumhower was a key figure on the Dolphins defense in the early '80s that was considered among the best in the league.  

In 1982, the Dolphins ranked first in Defense, and they would make it to Super Bowl XVII.  The following year was arguably his best, as that was his First Team All-Pro year, and Pro Football Weekly would name him their Defensive Player of the Year.