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 226 to 250:

226. Carl Banks
227. Duane Putnam
228. Bob Gain
229. Dan Towler
230. Fuzzy Thurston
231. Derrick Mason
232. Kyle Rote
233. Lyle Alzado
234. Matt Forte
235. Earl Faison
236. Fred Smerlas
237. Ray Donaldson
238. Jamal Lewis
239. Len Younce
240. Ed White
241. Eugene Robinson
242. Mike Stratton
243. Jim Plunkett
244. George Saimes
245. Mark Clayton
246. Ted Washington
247. Len Hauss
248. Jim Ray Smith
249. Al Nesser
250. Dave Butz

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.

Ed White was a consensus All-American at the University of California and split his 17-year professional career in the NFL between the Minnesota Vikings and San Diego Chargers.

White was part of several successful Vikings teams that made multiple Super Bowl runs, and he played a major role in protecting Fran Tarkenton and other offensive weapons.  The Guard was traded to San Diego, helped protect another Hall of Fame quarterback, Dan Fouts, and earned four Pro Bowl selections.

White played in 241 Games, and is one of the most tenured Offensive Lineman in NFL history.

Ed White came to the Chargers before the 1978 season in a trade that sent running back Rickey Young to the Minnesota Vikings. After nine years in Minnesota—where he had already made three Pro Bowls—the veteran guard stepped into the starting right-guard spot in San Diego and stayed there. At a thick 6-foot-1 and around 270 pounds, he was a powerful, physical blocker who could drive defenders off the ball in the run game and hold his ground in pass protection. He started 117 of his 119 games with the Chargers, missing only two contests over eight seasons, and earned his fourth career Pro Bowl nod in 1979 as the team began a stretch of four straight playoff appearances under Don Coryell.

Those years lined up with the peak of the Air Coryell offense. With White anchoring the right side next to center Don Macek, the line helped Dan Fouts lead the NFL in passing yards four straight seasons and kept the sack rate low enough that the unit ranked among the league’s best in protection from 1981 to 1983. The Chargers won three consecutive AFC West titles from 1979 to 1981 and reached the AFC Championship Game twice. White was named the team’s Lineman of the Year three straight times from 1983 to 1985, even as the overall results cooled, and teammates and opponents alike noted how tough he was to move. Fouts has repeatedly said White was one of the most feared linemen he ever played with, the kind of guard who made life miserable for the defensive tackles across from him.

White retired after the 1985 season. Over his eight years in San Diego, he was one of the most durable and consistent pieces of the offensive line during the franchise’s most prolific passing era.

The Chargers later inducted him into their Hall of Fame in 2004, recognizing the veteran guard who had helped keep Dan Fouts upright and the Air Coryell attack rolling for nearly a decade.