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1961 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project Class. Here we are!  Again!! If you have been following our Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project, you know that we have asked the rhetorical question: What if the PFHOF began in January 1946? After soliciting and obtaining a passionate group of football fans and historians, we sent out a ballot for a Preliminary Vote, in which we asked each voter to give us 25 names as their semi-finalists and 5 in the Senior Pool. Following that, we asked the group to vote for their 15 Finalists in the Modern Era…

1961 SEMI-FINAL RESULTS: Thank you for 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 years up to 1960. For “1961,” a Preliminary Vote with over 100 players whose playing career ended by 1954. 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…

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 176 to 200: 176. Dick Barwegan177. Charley Hennigan178. Cornell Green179. Charley Brock180. Bob Baumhower161. Tank Younger182. Buford “Baby”…

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 151 to 175: 151. Brian Mitchell152. Lomas Brown153. Tiki Barber154. John David Crow155. Byron “Whizzer” White156. Gene Washington157.…