Sunday, February 03, 2013

Parcells' HOF induction long overdue - ESPN New York


AP Photo/Ray StubblebineBill Parcells will join Lawrence Taylor in Canton.

My sentiments exactly for the same reasons I outlined last year when he was snubbed.
http://slavieboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/parcells-snubbed-by-hof.html

So now Strahan waits. I'm not sure he's any less worthy than Warren Sapp. The NFL's Hall of Fame problem is there is such a logjam of guys who should be in, but there is a cap on the number of guys they let in each year. No knock on Sapp, he was a force of nature when he came into the league.

Parcells did so much to turn around the fortunes of two of the current NFL heavyweights -- the NY Giants and the New England Patriots -- that he simply had to get in. LT's comments may make it seem like a parochial issue, but further down in the article fellow HOFer Curtis Martin give Parcells equal amount of credit for his HOF career. Those two endorsements alone should have carried him in the first ballot. Sometimes I just have no idea what these media types are doing.

To me, he was always the model of what a coach should be. The master motivator, the sometimes caustic wit. He was so Jersey. His press conferences became legendary before YouTube and 24/7, nationwide sports coverage. He was Governor Chris Christie before there was a Governor Chris Christie. Or maybe Christie is simply the political incarnation of Bill Parcells.

Congrats to the Big Tuna!! Now if we can just get Phil Simms in there, all would be right with the Football Hall of Fame.

from ESPN.com:
Parcells' HOF induction long overdue - ESPN New York:

"But if Bill didn't finally get in this year," Lawrence Taylor told ESPNNewYork.com on Saturday night, "they needed to shut the Hall of Fame down. The whole thing wouldn't have meant anything without him in there."

If a lot of people thought Parcells' failure to earn induction last year was something of a joke, Taylor wasn't among them. "I wasn't laughing," he said by phone. "You can't keep a coach like Bill Parcells out of the Hall of Fame, or the place means nothing. I'm very thankful to be part of his legacy."

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