Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLB. Once that is done, we will look at how each team honors its past players, coaches, and executives. As such, it is important to us that the Cincinnati Bengals have announced the nominees for their Ring of Honor.

Here are the nominees:

Jim Breech, Place Kicker: 1980-92.

Breech is the all-time leading scorer in franchise history and was the first kicker to have two 40-yard Field Goals in the Super Bowl.

James Brooks, Running Back: 1984-91.

In the years Brooks played for the Bengals, only Marcus Allen, Eric Dickerson, and Roger Craig had more Yards from Scrimmage (9,459). He was a four-time Pro Bowl Selection and had 64 Touchdowns for the club.

Cris Collinsworth, Wide Receiver: 1981-88.

Collinsworth was the runner-up for the Offensive Rookie of the Year in 1981 and was a Pro Bowl and Second Team All-Pro in his first three seasons.  He exceeded 1,000 Yards four times and had 6,698 Receiving Yards and 26 TDs.

Corey Dillon, Running Back, 1997-2003.

Dillon was a three-time Pro Bowl Selection who rushed for over 1,000 yards in his first six seasons, 8,061 in total for the Bengals. He is Cincinnati’s all-time leading rusher and also had 89 Touchdowns (82 rushing, 7 receiving) for the Bengals.

David Fulcher, Safety, 1986-92.

Fulcher went to three straight Pro Bowls (1988-90) and was a First-Team All-Pro in 1989. Over his career, he recorded 31 Interceptions and 8.5 Sacks.

Tim Krumrie, Nose Tackle, 1983-94.

Krumrie was twice named to the Pro Bowl.  In 1988, he was a First-Team All-Pro and was seventh in Defensive Player of the Year voting. Playing his 12-year career in Cincinnati, Krumrie accumulated 1,017 Tackles and 34.5 Sacks.

Dave Lapham, Offensive Guard, 1974-83.

Lapham started 105 of his 140 Games and, following his playing career, would join the Bengals broadcasting team.

Max Montoya, Offensive Guard, 1979-92.

Montoya was a member of the Bengals’ first two AFC Championship teams, and three of his four Pro Bowls were in Cincinnati.

Bob Trumpy, Tight End, 1968-77.

Trumpy is the only player in team history to be named an AFL All-Star and to the Pro Bowl.  A First Team All-Pro in 1969 when he had a career-high 835 Yards and 9 Touchdowns, he tallied 4,600 Yards and 35 TDs.

Reggie Williams, Linebacker, 1976-89.

Williams played all of his 206 NFL Games with the Bengals where he had 63.5 Sacks.  He also won the Alan Page Community Award in 1984 and the Walter Payton Man of the Year in 1988.

You can vote for who you think should enter the Cincinnati Bengals Ring of Honor here.

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, so this results 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 eighth ten of the 2024 Football List, which you can comment on and vote on:

The new 81 to 90:

81. Shaun Alexander
82. Gene Lipscomb
83. Anquan Boldin
84. Donovan McNabb
85. Everson Walls
86. Cookie Gilchrist
87. Phil Simms
88. Ray Childress
89. Dick Anderson
90. Herschel Walker

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.

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, so this results 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 fourth ten of the 2024 Basketball List, which you can comment on and vote on:

The new 31 to 40:

31. Larry Nance
32. Sam Cassell
33. Horace Grant
34. Eddie Jones
35. Ron Boone
36. Gene Shue
37. Joakim Noah
38. Stephon Marbury
39. A.C. Green
40. Hersey Hawkins

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.

The NFL has announced airing details for 2024’s Hall of Fame game, revealing a new broadcaster for the first time in 52 years. While ABC or NBC have historically broadcast the game, this year’s showdown will appear live through another major sports streamer.

Details of the Big Game

This year’s Hall of Fame game is a clash between the Chicago Bears and the Houston Texans. They’ll kick off at 8 PM ET on August 1st, in the same place the Hall of Fame game has always been. If you’re new to football or don’t follow the pre-season schedule that much, that’ll be the Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio.

This exhibition game will usher in the rest of the NFL calendar, from pre-season to post-season games. Where sportsbooks are concerned, the Hall of Fame game is treated no differently from other games. Once the 2024 season is in full swing, football fans can also use sports betting bonuses like free bets or boosts up to 200%. Before the summer of football can truly start, however, this Hall of Fame game will kick off pre-season and welcome new talent into NFL history.

The Hall of Fame play-by-play will be provided by the guys at Monday Night Football, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, with Lisa Salters reporting from the sideline. The more perceptive among you may realize that Monday Night Football is an ESPN production, which brings us to the big shake-up with this year’s game broadcasting.

ESPN Hosts the Hall of Fame Game

For the first time since the Hall of Fame game started in 1962, ESPN will air the game with Monday Night Football handling the calling. Historically, the Hall of Fame game has been one of the only pre-season games broadcast nationally, due to how prestigious the event is for fans. ABC coverage dominated early shows, hosted through their Wide World of Sports package and then later their version of Monday Night Football before it moved to ESPN.

Since 2005, NBC’s Sunday Night Football took over from ABC. However, on special occasions, NBC’s broadcast rights to the Olympic Games interfere with their Hall of Fame game obligations. When that happens, the game is kicked over to the NFL which auctions rights to one of the other media enterprises covering games, like Fox. With the Paris Olympics coming in the summer, NBC will be too busy providing exclusive, interactive coverage of the much larger event.

As a result, ABC and ESPN will be simulcasting the event on their own channels. ABC owns ESPN, and both are owned by the Walt Disney Company, so they’re more alike than different behind the scenes. It’s a homecoming for Monday Night Football, which last hosted the Hall of Fame game in 2005, but it also marks the first time ESPN will air the game. ESPN will also have priority with Spanish-speaking viewers, as the game will be streamed by their subsidiary ESPN Deportes.

With Troy Aikman strategizing the game, the new Monday Night Football team is arguably the best qualified to cover the Hall of Fame showdown. Aikman is a Hall of Famer himself, inducted in 2006 for his work with the Dallas Cowboys, and is familiar with the Tom Benson Stadium after storming the same field back in 1999.