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The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1988 Semi-Final VOTE

The Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project: 1988 Semi-Final VOTE
20 Dec
2025
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1988 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 1987.

For “1988,” a Preliminary Vote with nearly 100 players whose playing career ended by 1982. We also follow the structure in which 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 choose five from the remaining 15. We will continue this process every week until we catch up to the current year.

32 votes were cast, with the top 15 advancing.

This is for the “Modern Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals: 

 

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

Jack Ham LB

1

26

Art Shell T

1

26

Larry Little G

3

24

Ron Yary T

1

23

Tom Mack G

5

21

Ken Houston DB

3

21

Jackie Smith TE

5

20

Rayfield Wright T-TE

4

20

Bob Griese QB

3

20

Jim Langer C

2

20

Bob Hayes SE-WR

8

19

Roger Wehrli DB

1

19

Larry Csonka FB

4

18

Dave Robinson LB

9

15

Dave Wilcox LB

9

14

Joe Fortunato LB

17

13

Pete Retzlaff E-HB-TE

17

13

Dick LeBeau DB

11

13

Bobby Boyd DB 

15

12

Tommy Nobis LB

7

12

George Kunz T

3

12

L.C. Greenwood DE

2

11

Lynn Swann WR

1

10

Claude Humphrey DE

2

9

Gino Cappelletti FL-SE-DB-WR-K

13

8

Jim Marshall DE

4

6

This is for the “Senior Era”

*Bold indicates they advanced to the Finals:

Player

Year of Eligibility

Vote Total

Gene Lipscomb DT

1

17

Marshall Goldberg G-BB

18

14

Les Richter LB-C

1

16

Buckets Goldenberg G-BB

18

14

Alan Ameche FB

3

9

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

FILMMAKER: Ed Sabol

5

21

COACH: Bud Grant

1

21

OWNER: Wellington Mara

2

16

OWNER: Tex Schramm

9

9

COACH: Greasy Neale

19

6

TV EXEC: Roone Arledge

2

5

We will post the Class of 1988 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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