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Pro Football legend, Curley Culp passed away today due to complications from pancreatic cancer.  He was 75 years old. Culp announced earlier in the month that he had stage 4 cancer. Known for his raw strength, Culp was an All-American at Arizona State.  The Denver Broncos took him with their Second Round Pick in 1968, but they considered him a bad fit, and too short to make it in the NFL.  They traded him to the Kansas City Chiefs, and a year later, he was named an AFL All-Star, and was a large part of the team that won Super Bowl IV.  With Kansas…

It’s Thanksgiving week in the United States, and we here at Notinhalloffame.com have a lot to be thankful for. Days after the 2022 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot was released, the Pro Football Hall of Fame announced the 26 men who gave advanced to the Semi-Final round.  This group was pared down form 123 Preliminary candidates. The 26 Semi-Finalists are: Eric Allen.  Cornerback, PHI 1988-94, NOR 1995-97 & OAK 1998-01.      Eligible since 2007, Allen has never been a Finalist, though is a returning Semi-Finalist, with his first coming last year.  Allen had 54 Interceptions over his career, 34 of which as an Eagle.  Five of…

It’s on! The 2022 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot is officially out with seventeen returning players and thirteen new first year eligible names. To return on the ballot, a player must be within their ten years of eligibility and received at least 5% of the vote. The returning former players are: (with their year of eligibility and last year’s result) Curt Schilling: 10th Year, 71.1% Barry Bonds: 10th Year, 61.8% Roger Clemens: 10th Year, 61.6% Scott Rolen: 5th Year, 52.9% Omar Vizquel, 5th Year, 49.1% Billy Wagner, 7th Year, 46.4% Todd Helton,4th Year, 44.9% Gary Sheffield, 8th Year, 40.6 % Andruw Jones, 5th Year, 33.9% Jeff Kent, 9th Year, 32.4%…

The Polynesian Football Hall of Fame announced three new members to their institution with Malcom Floyd, Mike Iupati and Tom Kaulukukui. Floyd, who is part Samoan, was a two-time All-Mountain West at Wyoming.  Professionally, he played 11 years with San Diego, accumulating 321 Receptions for 5,550 Yards and 34 Touchdowns. Iupati, who liked Floyd had Samoan Ancestry, was an All-American Guard at Idaho, and went on to play 11 years in the NFL with San Francisco, Arizona and Seattle.  He went to four consecutive Pro Bowls (2012-15). Kaulukukui, who is Hawaiian, played his college ball at Hawaii, would later coach the Rainbow…

One of the game’s greatest and earliest Middle Linebackers has left us. It was announced today that Sam Huff died at the age of 87, eight years after he was diagnosed with dementia. An All-American at the University of West Virginia, Huff was a Third Round Pick in 1956, selected by the New York Giants, but he quickly grew frustrated by how he was used, or rather wasn’t.  Giants Assistant Coach, and defensive whiz, Vince Lombardi, recognized how to use Huff, and he became one of the game’s early Middle Linebackers as the cornerstone of the 4-3 Defense, a new scheme…