I don’t know if this will get the traction it usually gets since @bomani_jones isn’t on here much anymore, but there is value in tradition. It’s time to look at the initial ballot for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the best run of the three Halls of Fame. The baseball Hall of Fame has a voting pool that has completely abdicated its job title in favor of joining a weird and useless priesthood...

Okay, time to go viral on purpose. Here's this year's thread going through the initial PFHOF ballot: cc @bomani_jones The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the best run of the major sports Halls of Fame, and to my way of thinking there is not a close second. It perfectly hits the middle ground between the gatekeepers of the Baseball Hall of Fame and the bored doormen of the Naismith Hall of Fame.

Kit when he sees the initial ballot for the Pro Football Hall of Fame is out In my mind, the PFHOF is the best run of the three Halls of fame i'm familiar with, and it's not particularly close. (I am not venturing an opinion about hockey because I don't know anything about it.)

As officially endorsed by @bomani_jones, here is my annual thread looking at the PFHOF initial ballot. The two names most visible with HOF debates lately are Eli Manning and Jason Witten, both of whom I think are borderline at best, but frankly talking about any active player's HOF chances aside from maybe five obvious names is futile; it all depends on who else is on the ballot.

Today is the 52nd anniversary of Texas Western’s lone basketball title in its history as both Texas Western and as UTEP. A thread now commences: When coach Don Haskins rolled the ball out to Bobby Joe Hill, David Lattin, Orsten Artis, Willie Worsley, and Harry Flournoy, he made history by dint of their skin color. He was sending out the first all-black starting five in the history of the NCAA Basketball title.