Your chance to have a voice in HOF voting

by Brian Galliford on Nov 6, 2009 12:31 PM EST in Buffalo Bills News

Fans of the NFL do not have a vote when it comes to placing players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Thanks to an NFL partnership with Van Heusen and JC Penney, however, NFL fans now have a voice and public acknowledgment in the Hall of Fame voting process. The Van Heusen Fan's Choice vote is the result of that partnership, and gives fans some (unofficial) say in the Hall of Fame voting process.

The Buffalo Bills have been fortunate enough to place key members of the organization into the Hall of Fame in recent years, including Marv Levy, Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, Bruce Smith and team owner Ralph Wilson. There are, however, still players deserving of that honor - Andre Reed, Steve Tasker, Darryl Talley, Kent Hull and Cornelius Bennett, as examples - that aren't being hyped up enough. In the Fan's Choice vote, for example, Reed is the highest-voted former Bill, but he's approximately 10,000 votes behind leading vote-getter Jerry Rice. I urge everyone to head on over to the voting page and make that change a little.

Again, even though the fan vote does not officially count towards the actual Hall of Fame voting process, the results of this vote will be announced by NFL Network shortly before the official results are announced early next year. Go vote! And, if you've never seen this video... well, let's just say that I've been looking for an excuse to post it for a couple of weeks now, and this is the perfect spot for it.

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such a good video...

And he deserves it. One hell of a player. Very over-looked when thinking of those teams but was definately a huge key to them winning all those games.

LETS GO BUFF-A-LO!!

by bflo on Nov 6, 2009 12:39 PM EST reply actions

I thin Reed and Taser are the only Hall of Famers not in yet. Polian should get in, too. He’s that good.

Talley, Hull, and Bennet belong in the Hall of Great. Love them all, though, and I would never say that to any of their faes. :-)

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"Matt’s pretty valuable to y’all. Cherish him." - BG

by MattRichWarren on Nov 6, 2009 12:48 PM EST reply actions

I wish

that there was such a thing as the Hall of Very Very Very Good Players because Talley would be one of the first inductees.

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by pasaluki on Nov 6, 2009 1:35 PM EST reply actions

Man I miss those days...

and the spiderman under shirt.

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by Sluss88 on Nov 6, 2009 1:41 PM EST reply actions

haha i know i actually looked online to see if i could find it anywhere… But no luck. :-(

LETS GO BUFF-A-LO!!

by bflo on Nov 6, 2009 1:46 PM EST up reply actions

I know!

I also have been searching high and low….the Bills should make this and market it

B-B-B-Byrd Byrd Byrd, Byrd is the Wyrd!"

by willgarr15 on Nov 6, 2009 6:16 PM EST up reply actions

I’d buy.

LETS GO BUFF-A-LO!!

by bflo on Nov 7, 2009 8:26 AM EST up reply actions

Van Heusing and JC Penney

isn’t it Van Heusen?

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by J2 on Nov 6, 2009 1:50 PM EST reply actions

Yeah. I’ll make the change for the fearless leader.

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"Matt’s pretty valuable to y’all. Cherish him." - BG

by MattRichWarren on Nov 6, 2009 2:20 PM EST up reply actions

Incidentally he got it right on the link. :-)

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by MattRichWarren on Nov 6, 2009 2:21 PM EST up reply actions

LOL Judas Priest. That’s what I get for watching Van Helsing last weekend.

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by Brian Galliford on Nov 6, 2009 2:22 PM EST up reply actions

well I have about 50 of their ties so that’s the only reason I caught it. I laughed when i saw the link was right.

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by J2 on Nov 6, 2009 2:23 PM EST up reply actions

One More Thing:

After watching that video for a 2nd time, it became more clear to me that Keith Ellison should not be allowed to wear 56 ever again. EVER.

by Michael_Necci on Nov 6, 2009 4:01 PM EST reply actions

Voting

Dun

by Der Jaeger on Nov 6, 2009 9:51 PM EST reply actions

Ballot box stuffing

Didn’t like it in Afghanistan, but I think it’s OK to take a Chicago politics approach to this: vote early and often. Looks like they let you vote once per day. Does this article need 10 recs to stay on page 1 here?
I know he’ll never make it, but is Fred Smerlas still on the HOF ballot? As highly as he’s regarded, he is definitely near the top of my list of the most underappreciated Bills players.

by Gino Parilli on Nov 7, 2009 11:38 AM EST reply actions