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The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1982 Semi-Final VOTE

16 Aug
2025
Not in Hall of Fame

1982 SEMI-FINAL RESULTS:

Thank you for your participation in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project. If you are unaware of what that is, we acted like the PFHOF had its first class in January 1946.

We have completed the years up to 1981.

For “1982,” a Preliminary Vote with nearly 100 players whose playing career ended by 1976. We are also following the structure, where players have 20 years of eligibility, and if they do not make it into the Hall, they are relegated to the Senior Pool.

Each voter was asked to select 25 names from the preliminary list, and the top 25 vote-getters were named Semi-Finalists.

A week later, the voters were asked to pick 15 names from the 25 Semi-Finalists, and next week, they will pick five from the remaining 15. We will continue this process every week until we catch up to the current year.

32 Votes took place, with the top fifteen advancing.

This is for the “Modern Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals: 

 

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

Merlin Olsen DT 

1

28

Billy Shaw G

8

26

Eddie Meador DB

7

24

Billy Howton E-FL

14

22

Gene Hickerson G

4

22

Bob Hayes SE-WR

2

22

Jimmy Patton DB

11

21

Maxie Baughan LB

3

21

Tom Sestak DT

9

20

Dave Robinson LB

3

18

Dick LeBeau DB

5

17

Jim Tyrer T 

3

17

Dave Wilcox LB

3

17

Alan Ameche FB

17

16

Abe Woodson DB

11

16

Tommy Nobis LB

1

16

Bob Brown T

4

15

Joe Fortunato LB

11

14

Gino Cappelletti FL-SE-DB-WR-K

7

14

Gene Lipscomb DT

15

13

Buck Buchanan DT

2

13

Nick Buoniconti LB

1

13

Pete Retzlaff E-HB-TE

11

11

Roger Brown DT

8

9

Dick Schafrath T-G-DE

6

6

Walt Sweeney G

2

6

 

This is for the “Senior Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

 

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

Bucko Kilroy G-T

2

19

Pat Harder FB

4

17

Ace Gutkowski FB-TB

18

13

Ward Cuff WB-QB-HB

10

12

Marshall Goldberg FB

8

12

None of the Above

 

6

 

This is for the “Coaches/Contributors Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

 

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

COACH: George Allen

3

21

COACH: John Madden

2

20

COACH: Weeb Ewbank

6

19

COACH: Hank Stram

3

14

COMM: Pete Rozelle

2

11

 

We will post the Class of 1982 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project next Saturday.

Thank you to all who contributed. If you want to be part of this project, please let us know!

Last modified on Saturday, 16 August 2025 15:23

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