Desmond Howard Got Screwed By The College Hall of Fame
The Class of 2010 for the College Hall of Fame got announced today.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4116674
Gino Torretta, Grant Wistrom, and Chuck Cecil, among others, were inducted.
Desmond Howard was up for induction, but was not selected.
Honestly, if an entity is going to have a Hall of Fame and put in Torretta before Howard, it better have a moment of introspection and decide whether it truly deserves to consider itself a "Hall of Fame." What's next? Inducting Eric Crouch and leaving Charles Woodson out? I guess I shouldn't put it past the voters.
I am sure Desmond is crying himself to sleep over being left out. HoFs are a complete joke plus isn't that one in Ohio? I would rather a bust of myself was nowhere to be found in Ohio. Thank you.
Desmond grew up in Cleveland.
That must have been awful for him.
he would've gone to ohio state had they not fired earle bruce.
South Bend (or probably Notre Dame) pays the NFF to be located there. There was talk of moving it to Dallas, but I'm sure ND will be able to fork over some more $ once they fire Shamu.
this is all kinds of fail.
GRANT WISTROM over a Heisman winner? Really?!
He and Desmond both belong in the CHoF, IMO.
Wistrom could have won the Bronko Nagurski Trophy in '97, except for a guy by the name of Charles Woodson.
Wistrom could have won the Bronko Nagurski Trophy in '97, except for a guy by the name of Charles Woodson.
nope, it's in my great hometown of south bend, indiana! is that worse or better?
Equally terrible.
in the HOF biz. See:
Brett "Media tonguebath" Larva - er Favre: already in Canton even though it's not 100% that he is out of football for 2009.
Jesus H. Tebow: He's there (CF) already, too.
(My life is better for just writing his name.)
Meanwhile...
Pete Rose is still waiting (MLB). Stupid dying commissioners.
KISS is still waiting (Rock and Roll) So are the Plasmatics, BTW.
Need I even mention John Cooper, THE BEST tUoO$ coach ever
But seriously, Gino Toretta? WTH? He did what exactly? (Besides QB'ing at Miami when that was the default Heisman vote when no one else stood out.)
I don't know this for sure, but I'm pretty sure Tebow is not in the college football hall of fame. Also, is Favre in the pro hall? I thought you needed to be retired for a certain amount of time first.
They are renaming the Heisman the Tebow, so he is a lock. Favre wants to break a few more records before he gets his nomination to the hall. He is trying to see if he can throw as many interceptions as he has yards.
As far as Gino is concerned, his numbers are sick as a college QB. You can't question his admittance into the hall. But, in the same respect, Howard is a no brainer.
>>As far as Gino is concerned, his numbers are sick as a college QB. You can't question his admittance into the hall.
If you say so. He was not on my CFB radar at the time, except as that Miami guy with all the hype (pre ESPN Gameplan days, also no cable tv)
technically but the tonguebaths foretell the "inevitable." You don't have to go much further than "future hall of famer" while the dude is still playing. I think the media has already decided that he is a first ballot HOFer. He IS the Favre.
Worst hall of fame snub of all time...Rush not being in the rock and roll hall of fame.
Just fyi, Rush has 22 consecutive gold records, and is fourth behind The Beatles, The Stones, and Kiss in all-time gold record acquisitions for a band. Fourteen of those albums have gone platinum.
But lets put Run-D.M.C., John Mellencamp, and Madonna in the 'hall of fame'.
I know they belong there and that their absence is a snub.
I have no problem with Run-D.M.C., John Mellencamp, and Madonna being in there. I do have a problem with Rush and KISS not being there. Both got many of my friends laid in the back of smoky vans and paneled rec rooms.
Rush makes great, sometime trippily complex music and gave prominence to bass parts (yay!).
Love or hate, KISS made great spectacle, which is still with us today. Plus, one would think the money grubbing whores of the RnRHOF would feel a special kinship with THAT band
My New Best Friend.
You, out of everyone here, should understand my stage name.
Does Rush going "Mainstream" (Colbert, I Love You, Man) take away from the allure of the band? I've always liked the fact that noone else liked them - a secret band so to speak.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just plain shouldn't exist. It makes no sense on many levels. Art forms are just too subjective to evaluate for something like this. And they can't even come up with a coherent definition of "rock and roll" beyond "stuff that gets on the airwaves."
Ed Dyas is more famous than Desmond Howard? What the fuck?
You need to be out for five years before you can be elected to the MLB or NFL HoF's, I'm pretty sure. Either way, Favre deserves it when he gets in.
Was formerly located in Mason, Ohio (near Kings Island) before South Bend stole it. It was there, in 1991, that I attended the college football awards show, hosted by Brent Musberger, who I bumped into accidentally and was verbally chewed out by the asshat himself (in a bowtie), and met such collegiate greats as Ty Detmer, Steve Emtman, as well as Desmond Howard himself...oh, and I sat behind the legend himself, Johnny U., who couldn't have been a nicer person.
My HS football team (Cincinnati Moeller) used to play its home games on a field right outside the HoF building.
also: himself
just messin'
Were any of this year's inductees in their first year of eligibility? Few get in their first year, so I wouldn't be too troubled yet.
Desmond was an OUTSTANDING college football player and deserved first ballot induction. Granted, I was at UM while he was and so admit bias, but I don't think any reasonably informed college football fan would disagree.
I was glad to see Speilman get in. Tim Brown can bite my ass, but I always thought Spielman was the shit as a CFB player
April 30th, 2009 at 10:19 PM ^
I love Desmond Howard. I was a freshman at Michigan when he won the Heisman, and I remember much of the season like it was last season. (Can we just pretend that it was?) One of the things I remember from that year is that he was neither the best receiver on the team, nor the starting punt returner at the beginning of the fall campaign. In their opening game, Derrick Alexander was the guy returning punts against Boston College, until an injury ended his season. Would Desmond have had ANY chance to win the Heisman in 1991 if he had shared the field (and opportunities) with a healthy Derrick Alexander? I don't think so.
With that said, Desmond DID deserve the Heisman. He just wasn't the top guy on the team until Alexander's the injury.
His accomplishments speak for themselves. But to do them at his size is even better. Then, there was that little pose against OSUcks.....