“This is tougher than any 3rd-and-15, I can assure you”, Favre said, as he continued.
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“And up until that moment I had never thought about the Hall of Fame, and I mean no disrespect to the Hall of Fame”, Favre said. That just goes to show you why he’s up here today [as a Hall of Famer] as part of this elite group. “He can pick out talent a mile away”.
Bringing the new guys into the fold and seeing what everybodys game-day demeanor/attitude/body language is, I think is important when you are sort of forging your team..
“It was a small group of men, just 10 of them if you can believe that, 10 African-American assistant coaches in the entire NFL”. “I often wondered what it was like when Mike and Matt Hasselbeck came back with Seattle”.
Favre played 20 seasons and was selected to play in 11 Pro Bowls. He had eight consecutive seasons with at least 1,100 yards receiving for Indianapolis, and won a Super Bowl in February 2007.
“This occasion marks the fulfilment of each and every goal I have had”, Pace said of his athletic career. “The dream always begins as a dream”.
The 46-year-old has an inviting charm about him that makes him hard to dislike despite his many flaws.
Stanfel was a four-time Pro Bowler while playing with the Detroit Lions and the Washington Redskins during a career that spanned 1952-1958.
He was sacked in Tampa in 2001 and the Bucs won the Super Bowl the next year with Jon Gruden as coach.
Dungy first coached the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a team he turned around after being hired in 1996.
A disciple of Hall of Fame coach Chuck Noll, Dungy went 139-69 in 13 seasons, including 85-27 with the Colts from 2002-08. She told him how Irv said to her that he couldn’t wait for the day Brett would be enshrined at Canton so he could introduce his son.
“I said, ‘Greg, go in for Percy, ‘?”
So it was the last high school football game of my high school career, and although I dont remember how I had played before, and I dont remember how I played in the last game, what I do remember is sitting outside the coachs office, say, on a Wednesday, waiting for my father to come out so we could leave. From 1988 to 1994, he posted double-digit sack totals in every season but one, and when it was over, Greene finished with more sacks – 160 – than any other linebacker in National Football League history (and third all time behind Reggie White and Bruce Smith). A five-time All-Pro in an era featuring outstanding tackles, the 6-foot-7, 325-pound Pace was as adept as a run blocker as he was in pass protection.
Stabler quarterbacked the Oakland Raiders to the AFC title game each season form 1973-77. That was the second-most ever at the time of his retirement. Though Favre had a contentious split with the Packers in 2008 that eventually culminated in his signing in 2009 with one of the Packers’ great rivals, the Minnesota Vikings, his popularity with Packers fans appears to be back on the rise. Stabler and Steve Young were the only left-handed quarterbacks to start and win a Super Bowl. Dungy said, “Eddie DeBartolo was instilling the same principles in his team that I had seen with the Steelers, doing everything in a first-class and family way”.
The inaugural kickoff of the 2016 season is the Pro Football Hall of Fame game on Sunday, August 7th. “Did we win every game? No”.
Stabler, who died past year, was elected by the Seniors Committee. Favre spent the majority of his career with the Green Bay Packers, after initially being drafted by the Atlanta Falcons.
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This was a lengthy and loaded speech by the Super Bowl XXXI champion. Two years after that first playoff appearance, Favre won the first of three straight NFL MVP awards to become the first player in NFL history to win the award in three straight seasons.
