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Last time I checked, ask any NFL head coach, and they will tell you that the pro game is 1/3 offense, 1/3 defense and 1/3 special teams. The NFL Selection Committee for the Pro Football Hall of Fame has by and large ignored special team standouts. Unfortunately, Shell hasn't made it that far in the voting ever since. Shell nearly was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2002, when he became a finalist that year in the voting. Those 70 combined turnovers went a long way towards Pittsburgh appearing in all those Super Bowls. Shell was part of four Super Bowl championship teams with the Steelers, as he played in Super Bowl IX, X, XIII and XIV.ĭuring his career, Shell was able to come up with 51 interceptions and 19 fumble recoveries. He was elected to five Pro Bowl teams and was also First-Team All-Pro three times in his career. Shell played safety for the Steelers from 1974-1987.
If there were any rushed throws as a result of pressure from the defensive line, Shell was ready to pick off the hurried throw. In the class of 2012, Jack Butler is going in a whopping 53 years after he retired.ġ5-24 year wait: Lem Barney (15), Elvin Bethea (20), Buck Buchanan (15), Harry Carson (18), Dave Casper (19), Fred Dean (23), Joe DeLamielleure (19), Mike Ditka (16), Carl Eller (16), Russ Grimm (19), Paul Hornung (20), Don Hutson (18), Rickey Jackson (15), Jimmy Johnson (18), John Henry Johnson (21), Leroy Kelly (21), Tom Mack (21), John Mackey (20), Bobby Mitchell (15), Bronco Nagurski (20), Mel Renfro (19), Jackie Smith (16), John Stallworth (15), Fran Tarkenton (15), Andre Tippett (15), Willie Wood (18), Ron Yary (19) and Jack Youngblood (17).Ģ5 year wait and longer: Bob "Boomer" Brown (31), Nick Buoniconti (25), Jack Butler (53), Red Grange (36), Chris Hanburger (33), Bob Hayes (34), Gene Hickerson (34), Henry Jordan (26), Floyd Little (35), Ernie Nevers (32), Charlie Sanders (30), Billy Shaw (30), Emmitt Thomas (30), Jim Thorpe (35), Roger Wehrli (25), Dave Wilcox (26) and Rayfield Wright (27).ĭonnie Shell was one of the members of the Pittsburgh Steelers secondary that benefited from the pressure that the Steel Curtain supplied to opposing quarterbacks. The following is a list of players that are currently in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but had to wait at least a minimum of 15 years before they got that special phone call. To make this list, the player could already be elected into the hall, but had to wait an inordinately long time before they went in or they deserve to be in now, and are still on the outside looking in. In today's presentation, we want to identify the top 25 players that have been dissed over the years by the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
So, with Randy Moss coming out of retirement this year, the clock won't start again until after he hangs up his cleats for the second time. Each Hall of Fame class has to be comprised of four to seven players.Įvery retired NFL player has to wait a mandatory five years before they are eligible to receive votes.
The committee is comprised of representatives of the media from all over the country to avoid regional bias. There are a number of rounds of voting that occur, and a player has to carry a majority percentage of votes to progress from one round of voting to the next. The selection committee gets together the day before the Super Bowl and elects a new class for the Hall of Fame. It is a very special day when a retired NFL player gets that much-anticipated phone call that they have just been elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.īut what about the players that fans believe deserve to be enshrined, and are still being dissed by the Hall of Fame selection committee?
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