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Move this if it has already been posted.  But I didn't see it anywhere.

 

So, I guess the top guard for the first 50 years of the NFL still isn't good enough for the HOF.

 

http://www.startribune.com/spo...kings/272093781.html

 

Has anyone done a documentary about this?  What is the reason for his exclusion?  I've heard things that he rubbed the press the wrong way, or tried to take "solo" credit for the infamous block in the Ice Bowl, but really?  that's the problem?  There has to be something else.  Did Jerry bet on football like Hornung and Karas?  Did Jerry sleep with Rozelle's wife?

 

There must be a reason.

 

 

 

 

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He was an ironman, but Tarkenton hit it on the nose why he isn't in the HOF; four super bowl losses.  He was "manhandled"  in all 4 of those games and all of the NFL Films highlights of those games mention that!  Against the best competition he doesn't measure up.  I don't have faith he will or should get the necessary votes.

 

Comment in the link. Hard to argue how badly he (and the Viking OL) were handled by KC, Miami, and Pitt. By the time he got to January 77 and Oakland he was a shell of his best days. Don't totaly agree with him not measuring up though. Redskins, Rams, and Dallas had some great D lineman in the early to mid 70s. 

 

He can't be in the Hall if Kramer isn't though. But I guess that could be said about several O lineman that are in instead of Jerry.  

1970 through 1975 were my sports formative years. I fell hard and the names and games are seared in the hard drive and don't need backup. 

 

Like everyone I spent plenty of time thinking of a window I wished I'd been a kid cutting their teeth on sports. Maybe the early 60's with the growth of football and Koufax, Drysdale, Gibson, Clemente and Maris. Russell. Wooden. Lombardi. 

 

The early 70's were a perfect confluence of old and new. Monday Night Football. A's. Big Red Machine. Steinbrenner. Great football teams with coaches like Allen, Landry, Knoll, Shula, Madden, Grant, Coryell, Brown, Knox. Has there ever been that kind of collection of NFL coaching brilliance ever? Free agency was just getting started. 

 

But I'll never forget a 7 year old kid living in Northern CA that fell hard for sports learning of a place called Lambeau Field. Then walking up the Oneida steps 32 years later for the first time. 

 

Sports matter. 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for sharing CJ.  I was a snot-nosed 7 year old in 1965.  I still didn't have a full understanding of really what was going on until a few years later when I had realized that the Packers don't always win Championships.

 

When Alcindor came to the Bucks in 1968, I then started getting into basketball, too

 

I remember a few Braves' games but when they left for Atlanta in the middle of the night before the 1966 season, there was a void.  I did become a Cubs fan then.  Since the White Sox came up and played some games at the old County Stadium, I tried to follow them a bit.  But once the Brewers came for the 1970 season, I think I had listened to every game.  I took my transistor to school and hid it under my windbreaker and tried to listen the best I could.  I believe the Angels kicked our but the first few games like 12-0 and 6-0 or something.   But soon Danny Walton was hitting homers and it was fun.  Also, at that time, I had one of those baseball games (All-Star baseball) where you put down a round card that had a hole in it and spun to see what the AB was...each summer my dad let me mail in for an All-Star package.  I've still got that game.  Hell, I never knew who Nap LaJoie was or Mell Ott until I got older.  All I knew is that Nap had a huge "singles" spot and Mell had a huge HR spot to spin for....ha.

 

good times.  innocence lost now with all the big money involved with pro sports

Peter King had this tidbit in his MMQB column regarding this topic:

 

I also find it interesting that, two years ago, when I asked Bart Starr about any other candidates he felt strongly about on his team who deserved to be in Canton, he mentioned one offensive lineman, and it wasn’t Kramer. β€œBob Skoronski,” he said. β€œBob protected my blind side at left tackle, and you know how important the blind side is for protection to a quarterback. You’d look at their grades when the coaches graded the film after the game, and their grades were virtually the same, game after game. I am so disappointed he hasn’t gotten in the Hall.” I asked Starr if there were other players he wanted to recommend, and he said no. So that pretty much sums up why I believe other long-retired players are ahead of Kramer in line for Canton.

 

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/08/25/...r-bowl-prediction/6/

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