Pro Football Hall of Fame Selectors

The recent selections of the senior, coach, and contributor finalists have the Pro Football of Fame on my mind. Actually, as with football in general, it doesn't take much to get the Pro Football Hall of Fame on my mind. Yesterday, it was announced that Tony Dungy was approved to fill an at-large vacancy on the Hall’s Selection Committee. His addition to the roster of voters follows that of Bill Polian and Lisa Salters earlier this month. That's three new voices and opinions. It's good to have some new voices and opinions. With Salters, Polian, and Dungy the Selection Committee now includes the following.

Pro Football Hall of Fame Selectors

Pro Football Market	Media Member, Outlet
Arizona	Kent Somers, Arizona Republic
Atlanta	Darryl Ledbetter, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Baltimore	Scott Garceau. 105.7 The Fan/WMAR-TV
Buffalo	Vic Carucci, Buffalo News
Carolina	Darin Gantt, ProFootballTalk
Chicago	Dan Pompei, The Atlantic
Cincinnati	Geoff Hobson, Bengals.com
Cleveland	Tony Grossi, ESPNCleveland.com/WKNR Radio
Dallas	Rick Gosselin, Talk of Fame Network
Denver	Jeff Legwold, ESPN/ESPN.com
Detroit	Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press
Green Bay	Pete Dougherty, Green Bay Press-Gazette
Houston	John McClain, Houston Chronicle
Indianapolis	Mike Chappell, Fox 59/CBS 4
Jacksonville	Sam Kouvaris, Florida Times-Union
Kansas City	Terez Paylor, Yahoo
Los Angleles (Chargers)	Eric Williams, Sports Illustrated
Los Angleles (Rams)	Howard Balzer, Sports Illustrated
Miami	Armando Salguero, Miami Herald
Minnesota	Mark Craig, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
New England	Ron Borges, Talk of Fame Network
New Orleans	Jeff Duncan, The Athletic
New York (Giants)	Bob Glauber, Newsday
New York (Jets)	Gary Myers, Author
Oakland	Frank Cooney, The Sports Xchange
Philadelphia	Paul Domowitch, Philadlephia Daily News
Pittsburgh	Ed Bouchette, The Athletic
San Francisco	Matt Maiocco, NBC Sports Bay Area
Seattle	Mike Sando, The Ahtletic
Tampa Bay	Ira Kaufman, JoeBucsFan.com
Tennessee	Paul Kuharsky, ESPN.com
Washington	Jarrett Bell, USA Today
PFWA	Mary Kay Cabot, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
At-Large	John Clayton, ESPN Seattle
At-Large	Jason Cole, FanSided.com
At-Large	John Czarnecki, FOX Sports
At-Large	Tony Dungy, NBC Sports (Hall of Famer)
At-Large	Dan Fouts, Broadcaster (Hall of Famer)
At-Large	Clark Judge, Talk of Fame Network and Yahoo Sports Radio
At-Large	Peter King, NBC Sports
At-Large	James Lofton, CBS Sports (Hall of Famer)
At-Large	Alex Marvex, SiriusXM
At-Large	Bill Polian, Sirius XM (Hall of Famer)
At-Large	Sal Paolantonio, ESPN
At-Large	Lis Salters, ESPN Monday Night Football
At-Large	Jim Trotter, NFL Network
At-Large	Charean Williams, Pro Football Talk
At-Large	Barry Wilner, Associated Press

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Senior/Coach Selection Committee

Dan Pompei

Rick Gosselin

Jeff Legwold

John McClain

Ron Borges Frank Cooney Ira Kaufman John Czarnecki Bill Polian Contributor Committee Rick Gosselin Howard Balzer

Jarrett Bell

John Clayton

Peter King

Sal Paolantonio

Jim Trotter

Charean Williams

When I first became somewhat aware of the Hall of Fame selection process the list of selectors was all sports writers for newspapers across the country. In that sense, it's a little startling to see a selector from something called JoeBucsFan.com. It's a new day in sports coverage. It's been that way for a while and I'm finally catching up. It wasn't too long ago that all of the selectors were male. So, that's a refreshing change. Three of 48 is still a ridiculous ratio. If it were up to me, I'd swap out some of the longest-standing members with some real football historians. I'd start with a few from the Pro Football Researchers Association and pepper in Michael MacCambridge, Kristine Setting Clark, John Turney, and TJ Troup. It'd be nice to bring in some people that have passion and appreciation for the entirety of pro football's history. But that's just me.