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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Woah.
Um...Jim Tyrer's post-playing exploits were...uh...not great.
That's a rough look. I mean at a point, you need to really consider stuff off the field if you're going to enshrine someone in your Hall of Fame. I mean even if it only weighs 1%, that 1% in this case is gonna be disqualifying.
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I'm really surprised. I figured he'd never get serious consideration. I wonder, though, if this is a covert nod to CTE and the post-playing challenges that some of the old-timers faced.
Tyrer didn't get rich from football, and one could make the case that football caused the ... um ... the "incident". Is it really fair and just for football to hold the "incident" against him if we see a lot of evidence that it probably arose indirectly from his football career?
I doubt that the league's lawyers would allow such an argument to be made public, but I could see a bunch of the league's old-timers pushing for Tyrer in recognition of that argument.