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.

We lost a gridiron legend today.

Hall of Fame Center, Jim Otto, known as Mr. Raider, passed away today at the age of 86.

Otto was undrafted in 1960, as the teams in the National Football League considered the Center to be too small to take his skills to the next level.  They got it wrong.  The AFL took shape the same year, and the Oakland Raiders saw something in the Miami Hurricane, and Otto was given the opportunity to win the Center job with the Raiders.  Otto won it as a rookie, and he would start the next (and first) 210 Games for the team.

Otto was not just the best Center of the AFL in the 1960s; he was the top man in front of the Quarterback in all of Professional Football. He became an 11-time AFL All-Star/Pro Bowl Selection and was so dominant that no other center was a first-team All-Pro in the entire history of the American Football League.

The Raiders would win the division seven times with Otto at Center, and won the AFL Championship in 1967.  Otto played his entire career with the Raiders and is the best Offensive Lineman in team history.

In 1980, Otto was inducted into Canton in his first year of eligibility. 

We at Notinhalloffame.com would like to extend our condolences to the fans, family and friends of Jim Otto.