Lawler is an entertainer. Parlow is fine, DeAngelo should have been in.

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No DeLO, Mike Butler or Danny Uggs

Ya caint put errbody in the first class.

(05-26-2019 07:36 PM)holyterror Wrote:  Ya caint put errbody in the first class.

understood

but DeAngelo Williams was a clear miss on this initial one

Of the people listed only one wears the same hat all the time and has a blooper tape. Is that HOF material?

Put your torches and pitchforks away , DeAngelo is not eligible yet.

(05-26-2019 09:56 PM)oakland steve Wrote:  Put your torches and pitchforks away, DeAngelo is not eligible yet.

Isn't it five years after retirement for athletes?

(05-24-2019 08:55 PM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote:  

(05-22-2019 02:13 PM)HornLakeTiger Wrote:  The first class was announced today at AutoZone Park.

Larry Finch
Ronnie Robinson
Keith Lee
Penny Hardaway
Tim McCarver
Verdell Mathis
Bill Terry
Billy Dunavant
Fred Smith
Avron Fogelman
George Lapides
Betty Booker-Parks
Nikki McCray
Claude Humphrey
Isaac Bruce
Jerry Johnson
Verties Sails
Cindy Parlow
Cary Middlecoff
Rochelle Stevens
Melanie Smith Taylor
Bill Dance

Here's Calkins' column

https://dailymemphian.com/section/sports...ll-of-Fame

Bill Dance but no DeAngelo Williams?

I have no idea who Cindy Parlow or Melanie Smith Taylor are.

HOF's used to mean something. I have a buddy that made the Park Commission HOF for touch football. I went and couldn't help but laugh.

Cindy Parlow played soccer, made the Olympic team, won a gold medal - twice - and went on to sign a professional soccer contract. She was also head coach of some soccer team. Her dad and I were co-workers at the phone company.

How in the hell can anyone consider this complete without DeAngelo?? EDIT : "mostly because there is a five-year waiting period before retired players are eligible for the Memphis Sports Hall of Fame.". I reckon that explains it.

(05-27-2019 06:41 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(05-24-2019 08:55 PM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote:  

(05-22-2019 02:13 PM)HornLakeTiger Wrote:  The first class was announced today at AutoZone Park.

Larry Finch
Ronnie Robinson
Keith Lee
Penny Hardaway
Tim McCarver
Verdell Mathis
Bill Terry
Billy Dunavant
Fred Smith
Avron Fogelman
George Lapides
Betty Booker-Parks
Nikki McCray
Claude Humphrey
Isaac Bruce
Jerry Johnson
Verties Sails
Cindy Parlow
Cary Middlecoff
Rochelle Stevens
Melanie Smith Taylor
Bill Dance

Here's Calkins' column

https://dailymemphian.com/section/sports...ll-of-Fame

Bill Dance but no DeAngelo Williams?

I have no idea who Cindy Parlow or Melanie Smith Taylor are.

HOF's used to mean something. I have a buddy that made the Park Commission HOF for touch football. I went and couldn't help but laugh.

Cindy Parlow played soccer, made the Olympic team, won a gold medal - twice - and went on to sign a professional soccer contract. She was also head coach of some soccer team. Her dad and I were co-workers at the phone company.

How in the hell can anyone consider this complete without DeAngelo?? EDIT : "mostly because there is a five-year waiting period before retired players are eligible for the Memphis Sports Hall of Fame.". I reckon that explains it.

They should have waited until he was eligible. Either way I would never go there.

Lawler was likely not inducted because he's still technically active.

Now if we're talking wrestling, Sputnik Monroe was a huge, huge snub. Did as much for race relations as anybody in that particular era.