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Saturday, February 06, 2010

44 handpicked selectors not enough to confer sports immortality--Jason Whitlock

As it happens, MLB's Cy Young and MVP Awards are also the result of a small group of handpicked selectors, 28 or 30, and as such compare with the big NFL award. From Whitlock's article:
  • "A small group of handpicked selectors — 44 — of varying degrees of qualifications choose who goes into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
And the sports writers who are not among that group and someday hope to be
  • realize they better not offer
  • a word of criticism.

It’s an un-American process. It’s a journalistically unsound process. It’s a cowardly process....

  • It’s a process — in these economically tough times —
  • ripe for corruption.

It’s a process that mostly serves the egos of the selectors....

  • New York Giants linebacker Harry Carson was the first football player

Kansas City Star, "Process for voting on football hall is broken," by Jason Whitlock, 2/6/10

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