Re the HOF vote. I can't really complain about the guys who got in. You can only have 5 Modern-day people, and all the ones are deserving. I think Eddie D. is hurt by two things. One, of course, is the felony, and I think it might keep him out for good. The other is Modell's being on the ballot. He is one of the originals, but he moved the team. If he hadn't done that, he'd probably be in. So with two owners on the ballot, they probably split the vote, since there is no way two owners get in.

Re George v. Parcells: there is a reason George doesn't even make the ballot. He wasn't consistently good. He won two SBs, and the first he got little credit for because he inherited an amazing team. Rightly or wrongly, he received the best team in football and a team he did not build. Then, with all that talent, it was 5 years before we even got there again. Instead, we kept losing to Jimmy Johnson, who won two in that span. Second, he didn't coach that long: 8 years in SF. And third, the most important thing, is that he didn't go and win elsewhere. The Panthers were average to terrible while he was there. And they were worse every year.

Parcells, on the other hand, coached twice as long, won two SBs with the Giants and then took the Patriots to the Super Bowl, and had winning teams with the Jets and the Cowboys. His body of work is just more impressive. And then you add in things that probably matter to some voters, like he was the coach Belichick learned from (and Tom Coughlin and Sean Payton). That's 6 SBs from the Parcells "coaching tree." (Just like BW got some credit for what Holmgren, Siefert, and Gruden did.) George didn't have that. Shanny wasn't with the team long enough for people to count him, and Holmgren was a Walsh protege.

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