Helllllloooooo Hall: Howard elected to CF HOF
Go Blue!
Per the AP
The late Pat Tillman and Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard are among the 14 newly elected members of the College Football Hall of Fame.
The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame announced its latest class Thursday at a news conference at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in Manhattan.
Tillman played linebacker for Arizona State from 1944-97 and gave up an NFL career to enlist in the Army in 2002. He killed while serving in Iraq in 2004. Howard was a wide receiver for Michigan and won the Heisman 1991.
The newly elected Hall of Fame coaches are Barry Alvarez and Gene Stallings.
The other players in the new Hall class include Dennis Byrd of North Carolina State; Ronnie Caveness of Arkansas; Ray Childress of Texas A&M; Randy Cross of UCLA; Sam Cunningham of USC; Mark Herrmann of Purdue; Clarkston Hines of Duke; Chet Moeller of Navy; Jerry Stovall of LSU; and Alfred Williams of Colorado.
Kind of a given that he would be inducted given the Heisman and all but... well... any extra reason to post this is great:
Congrats Des! You deserve it.
Desmond is the man. No doubt about it.
Huh-No Kirk Herbstreit on the list-Imagine that.
he announced to his wife last night some breaking news that he had been.
Every time I see him do that pose I get such a big smile!
Congrats Des! You deserve it.
Congrats Desmond! A much deserved addition to the hall. Nice to see some enjoyable UM related news for a change.
And what a great representative of The University of Michigan. He's been a great spokesman (while maintaining a professional and appropriate balance as a college football journalist) for U of M over the years.
Not just a great college football player, but a Super Bowl MVP, great College GameDay analyst, and great UM spokesman
He is someone that every Michigan fan and alumni can be proud of on and off the field
Is that photo of Desmond's pose the most iconic positive* image in the history of MIchigan football? If not, what is your candidate?
* - I'm not going to post the negative, we don't need it again, but it's either the October 3, 1994 SI cover or the the September 10, 2007 SI cover.
it was in that Will.I.Am remix of My Generation...
i'd say it transcends Michigan... might be one of the most iconic photos of college football
This is true, I did make my friend rewind the ad at the Super Bowl party because we wanted to be sure we saw Desmond.
Actually, this is a really interesting idea about memory because that photo and "the pose" are inextricably linked in my mind with Keith Jackson's "Hellllllo Heisman!" So is also potentially what adds to its iconic status, that it has a signature call associated with it as well.
Pat Tillman.
way to go, given the coverup and all the associated nonsense.
the military always wants a hero story. look what they did with Jessica Lynch
God I love it! Congratulations Desmond! Heisman trophy winner and Super Bowl MVP for my Green Bay Packers! Suck on that Troy Smith, you worthless piece of nothing.
Long? Yes. But illustrious? I don't know. You really didn't hear much about him until the last 4 years he was there.
short changing him. First he had to deal with switching helmets from leather to plastic. Then instead of dirt, he had to learn to run on grass, then artifical grass. Then came that damn forward pass thing.
Point is, he needed 50 years to get Barwised and figure out the scheme changes.
Well deserved. Pound for pound, one of the most exciting college players ever. The way Desmond utterly dominated games in 1990 and 1991 may not be fully appreciated.
Here's praying that Hemmingway, Stonum, Stokes, J. Robinson, and R. Miller can combine for as many td's as Desmond had in 1991 (Nineteen I believe)
The Desmond Howard Heisman Trophy Starting Lineup Figurine along with the Charles Woodson one as well. Both of them are prized possessions and are on my desk in my room.
Didn't you tell me last fall you were headed into the Marines this summer? Is that still the case? Just curious...
...but it is a great headline after seeing so many that aren't exactly flattering to Michigan the last couple of days.
The award is well-deserved, and it's great that someone who succeeded both on and off the field is recieving it.
Congratulations to him, his career spoke for itself and it was only a matter of time before he got in.
- Rates the honor "the top" among his awards.
- Moment he relishes the most: OSU punt return/Heisman pose
- Who would present him at his HoF induction if they did that sort of thing: His dad.
Keith Jackson's call was awesome. If only Bob Ufer had been with us. His 1971 Billy Taylor TD will always live in my mind as one of the greatest calls of all time. Ufer was the Ernie Harwell of college football. "Wide to the right is Bo Rather. It's Taylor deep, Seyfreth close. Cipa under center on a balanced line. Cipa rolls out to the right, pitches off to Taylor....