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 276 to 300:

276. Keith Millard
277. Derrick Johnson
278. Stanley Morgan
279. Leon Gray
280. David Akers
281. Buster Ramsey
282. Beattie Feathers
283. Russ Francis
284. Carson Palmer
285. Keith Brooking
286. Dennis Smith
287. Frank Cope
288. Charles Mann
289. Ed “Too Tall” Jones
290. Rich Gannon
291. Seth Joyner
292. E.J. Holub
293. Mel Gray
294. Bart Oates
295. Fred Arbanas
296. Michael Vick
297. Bill Stanfill
298. George Svendsen
299. Hanford Dixon
300. Mike Quick 

*Denotes First Year of Eligibility.

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.

It took a long time before Rich Gannon really had his chance in the NFL and/or found his groove, but once he did, he had a stretch where he was amongst the best Quarterbacks in the National Football League.

From the University of Delaware, the New England Patriots drafted Gannon in 1987 and wanted to convert him to a Running Back.   That never transpired, and he was traded to the Minnesota Vikings, where he was a backup for three years until winning the starting job in 1990.  Gannon did okay for a few years but lost the starting job and was traded to the Washington Redskins, where a similar pattern would happen.  It would all change in 1999 when he signed as a Free Agent with the Oakland Raiders.

Under Jon Gruden's West Coast Offense, Gannon became a star.  He would be named to the Pro Bowl in four consecutive seasons (1999-02) and was a First Team All-Pro in 2000 & 2002.  In those two All-Pro campaigns, Gannon won the Bert Bell Award and was the AP MVP in the latter year, where he led the NFL in Passing Yards (4,689).  In all of those four years, he was in the top five in Touchdown passes.  He would be injured early in 2003 from a helmet-to-helmet collision and was out of football for two years.

What kills Gannon’s chances is that when he did make it to the Super Bowl, he was picked off five times, though it can be argued that it did not help that Gruden was now coaching the opposing Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  Had that gone differently, we expect that Raiders fans would be championing his cause as opposed to (or in addition to Jim Plunkett.

If only!