Steve Tasker not making the final 15 is a crime. Debate his qualifications to actually get into the hall, fine -- but don't tell me that some of these clowns on the short list belong and he doesn't. Even if you think that special teams shouldn't matter as much as offense and defense (which is laughable) you still have to give some consideration to the best guy who ever played the position. This isn't even a Bruce Sutter situation where he "changed the game" and then had a dozen guys come up and do his act better. Nobody was as dominant on special teams as Tasker and nobody's come close in the five years since he retired.Dent, Marino, Young among Hall finalists
January 12, 2005
Former Bears defensive end Richard Dent and former quarterbacks Dan Marino and Steve Young were among the 15 finalists announced Tuesday for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The Class of 2005, which will have from three to six members, will be announced Feb. 5, the day before the Super Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla.
Dent played for the Bears from 1983 to 1993 and again in 1995. He was the most valuable player in their 46-10 Super Bowl victory against the New England Patriots in January 1986 and is their career leader with 1241/2 sacks, including a team-record 171/2 in 1984. He finished his career with 1371/2 sacks, fifth on the all-time list.
Marino, who set many passing records during his career with the Miami Dolphins, and Young, who led the San Francisco 49ers to a Super Bowl victory in January 1995, are among four finalists who made the list in their first year of eligibility. The others are former Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin and former Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Derrick Thomas, who died after a car accident in 2000.
The other nominees are former New York Giants linebacker Harry Carson, former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end L.C. Greenwood, former Washington Redskins offensive lineman Russ Grimm, former Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Claude Humphrey, former Dolphins guard Bob Kuechenberg, former Redskins receiver Art Monk, former St. Louis Cardinals cornerback Roger Wehrli, late Giants general manager George Young and seniors Fritz Pollard and Benny Friedman.
And as a Saints fan I'd like to extend two middle fingers to Pete Finney of the Times-Picayune for fighting so hard for Rickey Jackson. Finney couldn't even be bothered to get #57 on the giant ballot the HoF announces before they whack it down to 15. How much of a fucking worthless do-nothing retard do you have to be to not get the second best player in franchise history on the big list? Is he even aware that he's actually on the commitee? I see him Googling for his name one random evening and seeing that pop up and him going "Oh, shit!"
Hollywood once made a movie where Whoopi Goldberg was made the coach of the New York Knicks. Everyone went, "Ha ha! A girl coaching the Knicks! Isn't this foolish!?!" Well I'm telling you all that I could campaign for my fucking football team a lot better than this asshole. I would like this task. Harry Carson has made the list for more years than some of you have been alive and he wasn't half the player Jackson was. Finney is worthless and lazy; worthless and lazy even for a sportswriter.