As we continue to work on our new projects at Notinhalloffame.com, we never forget about our core lists. We are therefore happy to announce that we have revised our list of those to consider for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The players we rank are determined by traditional statistics, advanced statistics (where applicable), playoff accomplishments, and accolades, but are adjusted annually based on your input and comments.   It's a fun process for us, made even better by all of you!

The entire list can be found here, but traditionally, whenever we announce a major list revision, we give you the top ten:

At #1 is Drew Brees.   Brees enters the ballot for the first time and should easily cruise into Canton.  The former Quarterback led the Saints to their only Super Bowl win, and is a 13-time Pro Bowl and two-time Offensive Player of the Year.  He also threw for a staggering 80,358 Yards and 571 Touchdowns.

#2 is Larry Fitzgerald.  The longtime Wide Receiver is also in his first year of eligibility and is likely to receive the necessary support for immediate induction.  He compiled 17,492 Yards with 121 Touchdowns, and was chosen for 11 Pro Bowls.   Fitzgerald is also a former Walter Payton Man of the Year Award winner.

#3 is Luke Kuechly.  Playing his entire career with the Carolina Panthers, Kuechly was a Finalist last year and likely fell off due to the small class.  Entering year two of his candidacy, the former Defensive Player of the Year is our top-ranked defensive player.

#4 is Marshal Yanda.  Like Kuechly, Yanda is in his second year of eligibility and was a Finalist last year.  The former Offensive Lineman was an eight-time Pro Bowl Selection and owns a Super Bowl ring with the Baltimore Ravens.

#5 is L.C. Greenwood.  A member of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ four Super Bowl teams from the 1970s, Greenwood was also a two-time First Team All-Pro, All-Decade Selection, and six-time Pro Bowler.

#6 is Lavvie Dilweg.  We go way back on this one, as Dilweg, who last played in 1931.  Nominated in 2020 as part of the Centennial Class, the End was a three-time NFL Champion with the Green Bay Packers and was a five-time First Team All-Pro.

#7 is Jason Witten.  We have a third new entrant in Witten, who had 11 Pro Bowls, 13,046 Yards, and 74 Touchdowns.  He is the highest-ranked Tight End.

#8 is Ken Anderson.  Anderson won all versions of the MVP in 1981 and was also a four-time Pro Bowl Selection.  He has been gaining traction in recent years among senior voters.

#9 is Torry Holt.  The celebrated Wide Receiver and Super Bowl Champion with the St. Louis Rams has been a Finalist the last six years.  He has 920 Receptions, 13,439 Yards, and 71 Touchdowns and was chosen for seven Pro Bowls.

#10 is Terrell Suggs.  Suggs was first eligible last year and made it to the Finals, boding well for an impending induction.  He won a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens, was the 2011 Defensive Player of the Year, has 139 Sacks, and is the all-time leader in Tackles for Loss (202).

Notably, the other first-time eligibles are Frank Gore (#19), Philip Rivers (#21), Maurkice Pouncey (#50), Geno Atkins (#80), LeSean McCoy (#110), David DeCastro (#198), Jurell Casey (#244), and Mitchell Schwartz (#294).

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 examine how each team honors its past players, coaches, and executives. As such, it is important to us that Tulane has announced five new members and a team to their Athletic Hall of Fame.

The class comprises Sue Bower (Golf Coach), Devon Breaux (Football & Track), Tea Juric (Volleyball & Beach Volleyball), Nathan Southard (Baseball), Leslie Vorphal (Basketball), and the 2008-09 Women’s Golf Team.

The induction ceremony will take place on September 12, with the class honored the following day during Tulane’s home game against Duke.

Sue Bower: Women’s Golf Coach 1992-2005 & Administrator 2005-16.  Spending 24 years with Tulane, Bower resurrected the Women’s Golf program from the dead.  She coached the team to back-to-back Conference USA Titles (2004 and 2005) and five NCAA playoff appearances.

Devon Breaux: Men’s Track & Field/Football 2012-16.  Breaux was a three-time Regional Qualifier in the Long Jump (2012, 2014, and 2015) and finished 19th in the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships.  On the gridiron, Breaux caught 41 passes for 625 Yards and five Touchdowns.

Tea Juric, Volleyball/Beach Volleyball 2013-17.  From Croatia, Juric was the 2013 Conference USA Freshman of the Year and is in the top ten all-time for Tulane in six categories.  In Beach Volleyball, Juric has a career record of 103-43.

Nathan Southard, Baseball, 2003-06.  Southard was part of the last Green Wave squad to make the College World Series (2005), and had a lifetime Batting Average of .321 with 29 Home Runs.

Leslie Vopahl, Women’s Basketball, 2013-17.  Vophal scored 1,255 Points for Tulane and had 558 Assists, which is third in school history.  She also won the American Athletic Conference’s Most Improved Player Award in 2016.

2008-09 Women’s Golf Team.  The team won two tournaments, finished second in two more, and was 20th in that year’s National Championship.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the impending members of the Tulane Athletic Hall of Fame.

1978 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project Class.

Here we are!  Again!!

If you have been following our Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project, you know we have asked the rhetorical question: What if the PFHOF began in January 1946?

After soliciting and obtaining a passionate group of football fans and historians, we sent out a ballot for a Preliminary Vote, in which we asked each voter to give us 25 names as their semi-finalists and 5 in the Senior Pool. We then asked the group to vote for their 15 Finalists in the Modern Era and 3 in the Senior Category. The final stage was to vote for their five Modern Era inductee and one Senior inductee.

This is the result of the 33rd official class. 

Below are the final results of this project based on 33 votes.

Remember that we have reverted back to the top five candidates entering the Hall in the Modern Era

This is for the “Modern Era”

*Bold indicates they have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Class of 1978:

This is for the “Senior Era”, 

*Bold indicates they have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Class of 1978.

This is for the “Coaches/Contributors”, 

*Bold indicates they have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Class of 1978.

About the 1978 Inductees:

John Mackey TE, BAL 1963-71 & SD 1972: Inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project in 1978 on his 1st Ballot.  Inducted into the actual Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1992.

In the history of professional football, there have been multiple names that have been tagged as someone who “redefined the position”.

John Mackey is one of those guys.

Mackey was a superb athlete whose size and speed set him apart from other Tight Ends in the 1960s.  As good a blocker as he was a receiver, Mackey would become a regular target of Johnny Unitas and would collect 5,126 Yards as a Colt.  Mackey is best known in Baltimore for his 75-Yard catch in Super Bowl V, which swung the momentum of the game in the Colts’ favor.

Mackey accumulated 5,236 Receiving Yards with 38 Touchdowns, and was the second pure Tight End elected.

Herb Adderley, DB, GNB 1961-69 & DAL 1970-72: Inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project in 1978 on his 1st Ballot.  Inducted into the actual Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980.

A five-time Champion with the Green Bay Packers (and a sixth with the Dallas Cowboys), Herb Adderley intercepted 39 passes and twice led the NFL in Interception Return Yards.  Adderley was a four-time First Team All-Pro and was also a star Kick Returner who produced over 3,000 Yards.  He would tally nine touchdowns overall, an incredible number for someone who didn’t play offense.

Lance Alworth, FL-WR, SD 1962-70 & DAL 1971-72.  Inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project in 1978 on his 1st Ballot.  Inducted into the actual Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1978.

The San Francisco 49ers of the NFL and the Oakland Raiders of the AFL both drafted Lance Alworth, but it was the AFL where Alworth would join after his AFL rights were traded to the San Diego Chargers before his 1962 rookie season.  The Chargers gave up three players for Alworth, and it still turned out to be a robbery in favor of the Bolts.

Alworth only played four Games as a rookie due to injuries, but in 1963 he began a seven-year streak where he had at least 1,000 Receiving Yards and was a First Team All-Pro in the first six.  Alworth was the AFL's leader in Receiving Yards three times, was a three-time leader in Receiving Touchdowns, and was easily one of the most offensive skill players in the history of the AFL.  Alworth helped the Chargers win the 1963 AFL Title, and his yardage from the air was so prolific that he also was a two-time league-leader in Yards From Scrimmage.

Alworth was traded to the Dallas Cowboys for three players before the 1971 season, and he played there for two final seasons before retiring, helping them win Super Bowl VI.  With the Chargers, Alworth had 9,584 Receiving Yards, 81 Touchdowns, and an astounding 111 in Approximate Value in the same number of games. 

Ray Nitschke, LB, GNB 1958-72.  Inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project in 1978 on his 1st Ballot.  Inducted into the actual Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1978.

Spending his entire professional career with the Green Bay Packers, Linebacker Ray Nitschke was the anchor for the Green Bay defense for fifteen seasons.  

Nitschke would lead Green Bay to five Championships while becoming a first-ballot Hall of Famer.  

When you think of Pro Football Hall of Famers from the defensive side of the ball, it is next to impossible to come up with a player who is held in higher regard than Ray Nitschke.   Bart Starr was the best name ever for a Quarterback, but isn’t Ray Nitschke just as appropriate for a Linebacker?

Mike Ditka, TE, CHI 1961-66, PHI 1967-68 & DAL 1969-72.  Inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project in 1978 on his 1st Ballot.  Inducted into the actual Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979.

Mike Ditka arguably achieved greater fame as Chicago’s Head Coach, but the generation before knew him as the man who evolved the Tight End position.

Taken from Pitt Fifth Overall in 1961, Ditka was the AP Rookie of the Year, and became the first ever Tight End to have a 1,000 Yard season, redefining what a Tight End could do at the professional level.  Ditka never had a four-digit Receiving Yard year again, but Ditka remained the game’s top Tight End over the next four seasons, and he was a key component in Chicago’s 1963 NFL Championship win.

Ditka was traded to Philadelphia by the cost-conscious Bears in 1967, but his style of play caught up with him, and he never produced the same metrics he did as a Bear.  Late in his career, Ditka won a Super Bowl with Dallas in Super Bowl XI.

A five-time Pro Bowl Selection, Ditka was the first Tight End to break 5,000 Yards.

Buddy Parker, Head Coach, CRD 1949, DET 1951-56 & PIT 1957-64.  Inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project in 1978 on his 9th Coaches/Contributor Ballot.  Was never inducted into the actual Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Buddy Parker is best known for his time as Detroit’s Head Coach, where he led the Lions to back-to-back NFL Championships in 1951 and 1952.  Parker built a potent offense in Detroit, but was best known for his defensive mind.  He popularized the 4-3 Defense and used an early version of zone and nickel defenses. 

He left Detroit for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1957, and although he was unable to bring them a championship, he did achieve a winning record, which was better than their previous incarnations.

Parker had an overall record of 104-75-9

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 examine how each team honors its past players, coaches, and executives. As such, it is important to us that the Tampa Bay Rays will be inducting Evan Longoria into their franchise Hall of Fame. 

The event will take place next year when the club returns to Tropicana Field. 

Longoria is arguably the best player in franchise history, playing there from 2008 to 2017.  The Third Baseman was the 2008 Rookie of the Year, a three-time All-Star, and won three Gold Gloves and a Silver Slugger for the team and is the all-time team leader in bWAR (51.7), Games Played (1,435), Runs Scored (780), Doubles (338) Runs Batted In (892) and Walks (569).  Longoria also batted .270 with 1,471 Hits for Tampa.

He will be the sixth man to be inducted into the Rays Hall of Fame.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate Evan Longoria for his impending honor.