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The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1985 Semi-Final VOTE

The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1985 Semi-Final VOTE
18 Oct
2025
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1985 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 1984.

For “1985,” a Preliminary Vote with nearly 100 players whose playing career ended by 1979. 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.

31 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

Roger Staubach QB

1

27

Carl Eller DE

1

22

Emmitt Thomas DB

2

21

O.J. Simpson RB

1

21

Joe Namath QB

3

20

Mick Tingelhoff C

2

20

Gene Hickerson G

7

19

Charley Taylor WR-SE-RB

3

19

Tom Mack G

2

19

Bob Hayes SE-WR

5

18

Charlie Sanders TE

3

18

Buck Buchanan DT

5

17

Jim Tyrer T

6

15

Jackie Smith TE

2

15

Tommy Nobis LB

4

15

Larry Czonka FB

1

15

Paul Krause DB

1

15

Rayfield Wright T-TE

1

15

Dave Wilcox LB

6

14

Joe Fortunato LB

14

12

Dick LeBeau DB

8

11

Dave Robinson LB

6

10

Pete Retzlaff E-HB-TE

14

9

Gino Cappelletti FL-SE-DB-WR-K

10

9

Nick Buoniconti LB

4

8

 

This is for the “Senior Era”

 

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

 

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

Buckets Goldenberg G-BB

15

17

Pat Harder FB

7

15

Ward Cuff WB-QB-HB

13

12

Marshall Goldberg FB

12

11

Woody Strode E

11

8

Bill Osmanski FB

13

6

None of the Above

 

4

 

 

This is for the “Coaches/Contributors Era”

 

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

 

 

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

COACH: George Allen

6

22

COACH: Hank Stram

6

21

COACH: Sid Gillman

1

17

FILMMAKER: Ed Sabol

2

12

OWNER: Tex Schramm

6

8

COACH: Greasy Neale

16

4

 

We will post the Class of 1985 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!

Committee Chairman

Kirk Buchner, "The Committee Chairman", is the owner and operator of the site.  Kirk can be contacted at [email protected] . Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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