Cris Collinsworth wants Pat Tillman in the Hall of Fame

[Auggie]

On the day ESPN ran a special Outside the Lines about the battlefield death of former Arizona Cardinals safety Pat Tillman, Sunday Night Football analyst Cris Collinsworth tweeted his belief that Tillman should be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

If I live to be a million years old, I will never understand why Pat Tillman is not in the NFL Hall of Fame … I cannot name one person in NFL history that represents what I would like the NFL to be more than Pat Tillman. Shouldn't that be enough HOF?

In his Monday Morning Quarterback column, Peter King responded:

Should all 26 NFL players who have died in service to our country—either in World War I, Vietnam or Afghanistan—be enshrined in Canton? Is one NFL player’s service worth more than others’? Should every player who served in wartime be enshrined, or put in a wing of the Hall of Fame? [...] And what about others who played football and went on to great things? Byron “Whizzer” White, a running back in the NFL, went on to be a Supreme Court justice. Jack Kemp quarterbacked the Bills, then became a nine-term Congressman and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Should they be in?

I think football players and coaches and executives should be in the Hall of Fame for what they accomplish as football players and coaches and executives, and not for anything else.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/04/pat-tillman-hall-of-fame-cris-collinsworth/

Collinsworth … you got to kidding me.

[wyldwolf]

1. one of those statements made during an emotional time and not really thought out first.

[GusBob]

2. Maybe instead the can create an award in his name

a service award of some kind

[frylock]

3. that would be a fitting tribute

[charlie and algernon]

4. Idk, I kinda like Peter King's idea of a special wing

I know he probably said it in jest, but it's not a bad idea: a special wing for those players that served in wartime and for those players that did great things after they retired from the NFL.

[Auggie]

6. Maybe worthy of a temporary exhibit IMO

[Upton]

5. Collinsworth is an idiot..

remember when he congratulated Bush on the capture of Saddam?

[joeybee12]

7. Does Collingsworth realize how anti-Bush and anti-war Pat Tilman was?

I bet not.

[madinmaryland]

8. I like the idea upthread about creating a special wing for players

who served their died in the service of their country and other as Peter King mentioned.

Should Pat Tillman be in the HoF?? No.

[hughee99]

9. The NFL was founded in 1920 (and changed it's name to the NFL in 1922)

How many NFL players could have died in World War I? Other than that, King's points are valid.