Defend or Deny… the baseball Hall of Fame vs Football Hall of Fame

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Here's something I never knew about the Football Hall of Fame:

"While there is no set number for any class of Enshrinees, the Hall of Fame's current selection process by laws stipulates that between four and eight new members will be selected."

This seems like another reason why the Baseball Hall of Fame is talked about more. While it doesn't happen often, there's no guarantee that someone is getting inducted every year.

Football also has a much bigger pool to select from. I'm not of the school of thought that it's any easier to get into then the Baseball HOF.

A Baseball team has 9 starters on the field plus DH plus bench guys plus relievers per game

A Football team has 22 starters on the field, plus kickers, special teamers and regular rotational players.

I seemingly see guys who retired from the game in the Top 10 in a major statistical category, regularly get passed over in the HOF voting, by the time they come up for election.

Isaac Bruce was the #3 all time guy in Yards from a Receiver at the time he retired. Took him like 11 years before he got in the HOF.

This doesn't really happen in baseball, unless there's some sort of underlying factor, and a bunch of angsty, non-stop chatter surrounding it.