The Results Of The Fan Choice Hall Of Fame Poll

no Falcons. go figure. our history precludes us form even having someone in the top 50 most likely.

GAY.

The biggest Falcons snub according to P-F-R is Mike Kenn. He has the 2nd most Approximate Value (AV) of any OT that’s not already in the HOF. He’s got 5 Pro Bowls, 2 First Team All-Pro’s, and 251 straight Games Started. He was great for a few years, and very good for a very long time. But with Willie Roaf, Jonathan Ogden, and Walter Jones all coming up for vote in the next 5 or so years, it’s going to be hard to get noticed (they each have more PB’s and 1-AP’s).

Next worst snub looks like Claude Humphrey. He is 9th in AV for DE’s not in the HOF (and would be higher if he had played a few more years. With 6 PB’s and 2 1-AP’s, he is tied or ahead of all other DE’s besides Michael Strahan (7 PB, 4 1-AP), Chris Doleman (8 PB, 2 1-AP), and Jason Taylor (6 PB, 3 1-AP).

Tuggle (#11 AV for ILB) and Nobis (#23 AV for ILB) don’t have the profiles I expected. They both went to 5 Pro Bowls – good, not great totals. Nobis was 1st Team All-Pro only once, Tuggle was never a 1-AP. Nobis only played in 133 games (a pretty low total, even taking into account they only played 14 games a year back then). That, plus the fact that the team’s defenses were pretty putrid back then hurt his AV total. The main thing that hurts Nobis is the fact that he missed most of 2 entire seasons in his prime (played only 5 games in ‘69 and 4 games in ’71 – due to injury?). The years directly before and after those seasons were all Pro Bowl years. The fact that there are several MLB’s that are clearly more decorated than these two makes it seem like they are both long shots to ever get into the HOF.

And, as others have pointed out, the fact that all these guys have a zero in the stat called “Rings” means that their profile has to be a near slam-dunk for them to get in.