2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame Class

[Gepetto 1,252]

Jared Allen 

Sterling Sharpe

Eric Allen

Antonio Gates

 

That's it. I'm so happy these guys made it especially my favorite receiver Sterling Sharpe.

[Hardcore troubadour 14,702]

Understandable that Eli didn’t go in on first ballot. He’ll get there. 

[Thornton Melon 598]

Vinatieri should've been in....all-time leading scorer

[Hardcore troubadour 14,702]

2 minutes ago, Thornton Melon said:

Vinatieri should've been in....all-time leading scorer

Agree. And clutch. 

[Mike Hunt 249]

9 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Understandable that Eli didn’t go in on first ballot. He’ll get there. 

But why?   I get Giants won 2 Superbowl's but Eli only finished in the top 10 of QBs twice with 6th being the highest. Career rating in the lower 80s. 118-118 W-L record.

Eli was a good QB, but HOF players are the best of the best and he never was.

[Hardcore troubadour 14,702]

1 minute ago, Mike Hunt said:

But why?   I get Giants won 2 Superbowl's but Eli only finished in the top 10 of QBs twice with 6th being the highest. Career rating in the lower 80s. 118-118 W-L record.

Eli was a good QB, but HOF players are the best of the best and he never was.

 By standards set he is a HOF’r. If they kept the HOF extremely exclusive like you say, then yes, he would not be. But they haven’t. 

[KSB2424 3,141]

Torry Holt has been deserving.  Eli should go.  

As a Panthers fan I love me some Steve Smiff. 

[Herbivore 1,104]

2 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Understandable that Eli didn’t go in on first ballot. He’ll get there. 

since this is the HoF thread, I'll add the same comment from your 13 Years Ago Today thread. 

At best, he is 6th best QB of his peers. TB, Peyton, Rodgers, Brees, and Big Ben. That's a no for me.

[Hardcore troubadour 14,702]

1 minute ago, Herbivore said:

since this is the HoF thread, I'll add the same comment from your 13 Years Ago Today thread. 

At best, he is 6th best QB of his peers. TB, Peyton, Rodgers, Brees, and Big Ben. That's a no for me.

Got it. And Rodgers and Brees spent a lot of time losing big games. 

[weepaws 3,112]

2 hours ago, Gepetto said:

Jared Allen 

Sterling Sharpe

Eric Allen

Antonio Gates

 

That's it. I'm so happy these guys made it especially my favorite receiver Sterling Sharpe.

Four very good seasons isn’t HOF worthy imo, this class shows that the nfl is out of true HOF players.  

[The Real timschochet 6,011]

Eli average at best; no chance for HOF

[BeenHereBefore 1,436]

No Hines Ward Bogus!

[listen2me 23 1,805]

How big of a flamer is Joe Burrow?

[MLCKAA 535]

7 hours ago, Mike Hunt said:

But why?   I get Giants won 2 Superbowl's but Eli only finished in the top 10 of QBs twice with 6th being the highest. Career rating in the lower 80s. 118-118 W-L record.

Eli was a good QB, but HOF players are the best of the best and he never was.

I’ll first say that I don’t give a damn about Eli.

But the F in HOF is Fame.  It’s not the HOG.  I think he qualifies 

[Red White and Blue 81]

5 hours ago, The Real timschochet said:

Eli average at best; no chance for HOF

Eli will get in eventually because of the fluky SB wins.

[weepaws 3,112]

26 minutes ago, Red White and Blue said:

Eli will get in eventually because of the fluky SB wins.

And the nfl has ran out of great players, now lots of second and third tier players will be enshrined.  

[Hardcore troubadour 14,702]

The best thing Eli has going for him is 2011. Went through the gauntlet and carried his team to a title vs the NfL’s best. His performance in the NFC championship that year was incredible.  Got the shitt knocked out of him 11-12 times and got back up.  A performance for the ages. They don’t hit them like that anymore. 

[Fnord 1,940]

Awesome to see Jared Allen going in.

HOF waaaaaay overvalues Super Bowl wins in their criteria. Take those away and Eli, Aikman, and Namath have zero chance. 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,702]

1 minute ago, Fnord said:

Awesome to see Jared Allen going in.

HOF waaaaaay overvalues Super Bowl wins in their criteria. Take those away and Eli, Aikman, and Namath have zero chance. 

He wore 69. That guy is always the dik

[Mike Honcho 4,961]

12 hours ago, Gepetto said:

Jared Allen 

Sterling Sharpe

Eric Allen

Antonio Gates

 

That's it. I'm so happy these guys made it especially my favorite receiver Sterling Sharpe.

Thrilled about Sharpe.  When he got retired because of the neck injury, I was on the fence, did he play long enough. When they put in Terrell Davis, who left early for injury, I kept wondering okay, when does Sharpe get in---he was the best or 2nd best WR in the league(only behind Rice) and he Diliweg, Wright and Majkowski throwing him passes, once he got Farve they were unstoppable.  Took way too long, but glad he's finally getting his due.  

[edjr 6,537]

On 2/6/2025 at 10:27 PM, Thornton Melon said:

Vinatieri should've been in....all-time leading scorer

Once again, another league “HOF” shows it’s idiocy

[edjr 6,537]

On 2/6/2025 at 10:39 PM, KSB2424 said:

 

As a Panthers fan I love me some Steve Smiff. 

of course you do, you love your nitwit thugs

[jerryskids 6,435]

On 2/6/2025 at 10:38 PM, Hardcore troubadour said:

Got it. And Rodgers and Brees spent a lot of time losing big games. 

Brees won a SB.   

On 2/7/2025 at 1:06 AM, BeenHereBefore said:

No Hines Ward Bogus!

Ward is the WR coach at Arizona State.  He's a big part of their success. 

 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,702]

15 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

Brees won a SB.   

Ward is the WR coach at Arizona State.  He's a big part of their success. 

 

And lost a lot of big games.  Both are true. 

[5-Points 3,301]

Darren Woodson got snubbed again.

 

[posty 2,563]

Eli might eventually get in, but he was not a first-ballot for sure…