1960 PRELIMINARY RESULTS:

Thank you to all of you who have participated in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project. If you are unaware of what that is, we acted as if the PFHOF had its first class in January 1946.

We have completed the first 14 years thus far.

For “1960,” a Preliminary Vote with close to 130 players whose playing career ended by 1952. We are also following the structure in that 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 will be asked to pick 15 names from the 25 Semi-Finalists, and next after, they will pick five from the remaining 15. We will continue this process weekly until we catch up to the current year.

Please note that a significant change occurred “years ago”, allowing voters to submit less than the allotted spots. 

30 Votes took place

This is for the “Modern Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Semi-Finals:

*Indicates they have been removed from future ballots

This is for the “Senior Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Semi-Finals:

*Indicates that they will be removed from the ballot permanently.

We had a tie in the special vote for How Many Moderns Should Get In

This will be put back in to vote again

In the Seniors Duration Vote:

We will post the 1960 Semi-Finalists of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project results next Saturday.

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

The NFL Draft is on the horizon and fast approaching, so the future of some players is naturally going to remain unclear. However, in Rashee Rice’s case, his future with the Kansas City Chiefs remains totally up in the air, and he could yet be unavailable for the new NFL campaign that begins in September of this year.

Rice, 23, is a young player establishing himself with one of the most prominent and feared teams in the whole of the NFL. The Chiefs have and do win it all, and then some, and sports betting markets online suggest this will continue to be the case in 2024 and beyond, but they may have to do it without Rice, a player who broke the record for being the rookie to take the most passes in the playoffs on the way to the Super Bowl.

The Philadelphia-born wide receiver, who wears number four for the Chiefs, has eight felony charges lodged against him following a multi-car crash in Dallas, so not only could this make him unavailable for next season, but there could also be NFL charges looming, which may have a significantly negative effect too. The potential for Rice to be unavailable in part or in full would automatically lead many to believe that the Chiefs must be on the lookout for a wide receiver in the upcoming draft, but that’s not entirely the case, according to General Manager Brett Veach.

According to Veach, the original plans the Chiefs had will be the ones they go with, so offensive line depth, safety considerations and cornerback vacancies will all be at the forefront, as they were before Rice’s situation changed. However, while he did recognise that there is a need to continue as planned, Veach also suggested the Chiefs would be aiming to address the wide receiver position, just in case Rice is unable to play a part.

You can’t downplay Rice’s importance to the Chiefs, with the 2023 draft pick being the top receiver in the team last season. But, there’s always been an approach to keep adding talent and ensuring there’s competition for places, even if it’s just to drive the regular starters on to hit high standards on the performance front consistently. Depth and real competitiveness in all departments is the philosophy, and it’s one that has been proven to work based on the success achieved by the Chiefs in recent times.

What this could also mean is that if things don’t go smoothly for Rice in the coming months, he could quite easily be replaced, or have been replaced, when he makes his return. And it will likely be players of a similar level who have stepped into the void. Rice is contracted by the Chiefs until the end of 2026, when he will become an unrestricted free agent. But between then and now, a lot could happen, and if Veach has a player who can’t contribute, a tough decision may have to be made.

Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB.  Once that is done, we intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  As such, it is important to us that the

Kansas City Chiefs will be inducting Tamba Hali to their franchise Hall of Fame this year.

Originally from Liberia, Tamba Hali arrived in the United States at age 10 and the athletically gifted youngster took to football like a duck to water.  Hali went to Penn State and the Chiefs would draft him 20th overall in 2006 and he played Defensive End for the first three seasons of his career.  Moving to the Right Outside Linebacker in 2009, he would net 14.5 Quarterbacks in 2010 and would have double-digit Sacks again in 2011 and 2013 and from 2011 to 2015 he would be chosen for the Pro Bowl.   Hali played the entirety of his 12 seasons with the Chiefs.

Hali had 89.5 Sacks and 105 Tackles for Loss for the team.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate Tamba Hali for this impending honor.

Every single content creator wants to maximum exposure on social media. The pinnacle of achievement is going viral. Today we explore how to make TikTok music go viral!

Social media is teeming with activity; it is a veritable hive of influencers, followers, and, more importantly, competitors. Music artists today face different problems than artists of yesteryear. Back in the day, rock stars in the making didn't have TikTok, Instagram, X, Pinterest, or Facebook to mass publicize and optimize videos for pre-orders, pre-releases, concerts, and the like. Marketing and advertising relied solely on gigs, press releases, print newspapers, radio, and TV. Now that artists have free reign to reach the audience directly via social media, things are incredibly different.

The challenges of today are daunting but not impossible. The arrival of social media, particularly mega-popular sites like TikTok, presents artists with plenty of opportunities to reach hundreds of millions of people. Technology is constantly innovating, allowing for the proliferation of unique tools, marketing strategies, and approaches to promoting music online. Nowadays, artists don't need expensive studios to create top-quality music for exposure, launch, and promotion on social media sites like TikTok. 

Further, there is no need to sign up with the music producer for your record label – that's the power of self-promotion on social media. But getting there takes some doing, and that's the challenge. The digital age presents myriad opportunities for massive exposure, largely through creative energy, ingenuity, and boldness. Whether you are active on Apple Music, Spotify, Facebook, or TikTok, there is ample opportunity for you to stand out from the rest with innovative strategies designed to make your music go viral. Of course, the big one is TikTok, where we focus our attention!

Gone in Under 15 Seconds

Microblogging platforms like X.com and TikTok rely on a short window to grab the user's attention. Stats show that social media is actually hampering our attention spans. According to studies, the average person spends over three hours and fifteen minutes daily on social media. The short form format of social media –TikTok and Instagram have reduced our attention span to just eight seconds in 2023 versus 12 seconds in the year 2000. That means there's an incredibly short timeframe to get your message across to your audience. 

Standing out under such conditions requires something truly special, which is the subject of today's post. So, how does TikTok work? As the de facto social media network of choice for the younger generation – that's largely the target market for artists, too - TikTok keeps everything really short. There is zero tolerance for boring material. If the music video cannot captivate your attention within a couple of seconds, it's DOA.

Recall, the average video on TikTok is 15 seconds or less. And it's a vertically oriented video 

that you're watching because most users are on their mobiles. TikTok uses an algorithm to determine what videos users like and feeds them more of that type of content. These are important points to remember when making your music go viral on TikTok. Virality is all about engagement, interaction, views, and likes. The more, the merrier. Once a music video gets shared repeatedly, this rapidly expands the viewership and the potential for further shares, likes, and interactions. 

Brevity encompasses quality. That’s important here. People are looking at video scores in any browsing session – it has to be good and conform to users' generally accepted standards to be shared. TikTok videos feature high-quality audio, typically a few seconds from a song. This could be your own song or a repository of songs. If you've ever watched TikTok videos, you invariably hear the same soundtracks or audio snippets on different videos – that is the idea.

Artist-Inspired Material 

Artist-created content is the best way for artists to go viral. At least, this was the finding in a detailed report by Contraband. According to the statistics, six dozen music artists launched their music careers in 2022, and almost two dozen racked up 1 million Spotify listeners. And well over a hundred artists were not even signed by record labels, attesting to the go-it-alone reality for so many superstars in the making. 

And it's thanks to TikTok that these people became music icons because social media empowered artists through their audience (fan base) to promote music on Spotify with top-tier providers that streamline this process for artists by offering a direct pathway to Spotify playlist curators, eliminating the need to search, analyze, contact, or negotiate with them. Artists simply submit their tracks, set campaign targets, and launch. 

Make Your Play on TikTok

Many of these artists didn't even have to spend anything on marketing and advertising their brands because they simply provided URLs on TikTok to their Spotify pages. It's ingenious marketing that cuts out the middlemen and empowers the artists to no end. Naturally, it's a painstaking process to go from zero to hero on any social media platform, let alone platinum on record charts or Spotify. Again, artist-created content was largely responsible for the virality enjoyed by musicians on TikTok. This easily translates into sales on Spotify.

TikTok has many different genres, styles, trends, and music sensations. Audiences are as wide and varied on the social media platform as they are in our cosmopolitan societies worldwide. Remixes are particularly popular, with millions of listeners on Spotify and millions of likes, shares, and interactions on TikTok. There are strong correlations between the popularity of music styles and genres on social media and the attendant rankings on Spotify. 

Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of TikTok videos use popular soundtracks that are recycled over and over again. These are the viral ones, and once a video attains that status, the music accompanying that video automatically gets a mega boost. As examples, consider Kill Bill by SZA, Bad Habit by Steve Lacy, or Bloody Mary by Lady Gaga. Superstars include Justin Bieber, Sean Mendez, J Lo, and Selena Gomez.

Going viral is possible, but it's a lot of hard work. A little good fortune and the right knowledge can get you there much faster!

Here are some quick tips for going viral on TikTok – 

• Make excellent use of hashtags to ensure that the audience sees your content
• Upload your music to TikTok and ensure compliance with standards
• Always follow trends and create content accordingly
• Inspire engagement and participation via tournaments and challenges
• Never stop believing in your audience and actively engage with them
• Try something different, like remixes of your songs
• Work with others to increase your visibility on social media platforms

On that note, we’re sounding off!