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

I can't take that list seriously since Lawler and Big Jack aren't on it.

WOW McCray and Dance, other than being born in Shelby county neither of these has ties to Memphis sports...

I think the criteria is either having played here or being from here.

(05-22-2019 02:20 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  I can't take that list seriously since Lawler and Big Jack aren't on it.

While they certainly deserve to be on it, it is still a pretty good list.

NICE First Class!!!!

The committee was heavily slanted to push certain sports. Not all sports were properly represented in the committee.

The Memphis Sports Council's webpage list all the local sports facilities including disc golf, fencing and yes Wrestling. Yet omits the oldest professional sports facility in the Memphis metro area.

They lazily included Memphis International Raceway under the heading NASCAR/NHRA.

THE PARENT COMPANY OF MIR OWNS THE IHRA. MIR IS AN IHRA TRACK NOT NHRA.

This shows just how much effort they put into motorsports and where it sits in the eyes of the Memphis Sports Council committee.

(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.

(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.

Parlow was a soccer star at UNC, then in the olympics with a gold medal. I knew her whenshe was a little kid. Melanie Taylor Smith, I have no idea either.

Melanie won an Olympic gold in equestrian. She is from Germantown.

Yeah dude.

Olympic gold medalists have to get in.

The Smith family equestrian farm is still on Poplar Pike

(05-24-2019 10:08 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote:  Yeah dude.

Olympic gold medalists have to get in.

Neither had the impact on Memphis that DeAndelo did.

(05-25-2019 11:54 AM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote:  

(05-24-2019 10:08 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote:  Yeah dude.

Olympic gold medalists have to get in.

Neither had the impact on Memphis that DeAndelo did.

not even close

Melanie is not just a gold medal winner. She is the voice of NBC's national Equestrian broadcasts. Millions of horse enthusiast the world over love her no none sense take on the art of the horse. She is the Bill Nance of horses competitions.

She has a huge impact on how the world see's Memphis. Her vs DWill is apples and oranges. Economically it's probably something of a push. Brand management and marketing might give Melanie the edge because she has a world wide following....

The both should get in.

(05-25-2019 12:08 PM)ImaTiger Wrote:  Melanie is not just a gold medal winner. She is the voice of NBC's national Equestrian broadcasts. Millions of horse enthusiast the world over love her no none sense take on the art of the horse. She is the Bill Nance of horses competitions.

She has a huge impact on how the world see's Memphis. Her vs DWill is apples and oranges. Economically it's probably something of a push. Brand management and marketing might give Melanie the edge because she has a world wide following....

The both should get in.

I wonder why Elvis didn't get in?

Cindy Parlow?
No Lawler and DeAngelo?

What a joke

Lawler and DeAngelo both are huge snubs.

That does not mean Olympic gold medalists should not be there.

(05-25-2019 07:09 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote:  Lawler and DeAngelo both are huge snubs.

That does not mean Olympic gold medalists should not be there.

Can't disagree with that...

28.5% of the class were former Tigers. You can't add them all in the first year.