The Pro Football Hall of Infamy - Make your nominations

[Rain Man]

In a recent discussion, the esteemed member that we call "Katipan" brought up the concept of a Hall of Infamy for the NFL.

In a quick internet search, it appears that there is no official Hall of Infamy. That gives us a market opportunity to open one up, to be officially housed on this site. You, the members, will be the voters.

Here are the rules and bylaws of the Pro Football Hall of Infamy.

1. We elect exactly six new members each year. (Edit: 12 will be inducted in the inaugural year of the Hall.)

2. Membership criteria will be anyone who brought "shame, dishonor, disgust, or embarrassment" to the sport of professional football".* Each voter may decide what that term means to them.

* - English voters are welcome to substitute 'dishonour' for 'dishonor'.

3. Nominees can include players, coaches, administrators, owners, cheerleaders, fans, superfans, stadium designers, halftime performers, people who drop candy wrappers in stairwells, trainers, those people who run out with water bottles during breaks - anybody who fits Rule 2 above. The only rule is that they must be human, so you cannot nominate a cat that ran onto the field or an underinflated football or anything of that nature.

4. Nominees must not be inactive in professional football for at least five years to be eligible. So tom brady is not yet eligible.

5. Anyone in professional football is eligible, though of course none of us knows anything about the CFL, UFL, USFL, and other non-NFL leagues.

5. Each year, we will build a list of nominees. Nominees from the previous year will automatically be carried forward as long as they meet certain criteria, which will be determined once we see how Year 1 goes.

6. Each Chiefsplanet member will be allowed to nominate up to six people for per year in Year 1, and a smaller number TBD in future years. If more than six are nominated, the first six listed will be the ones chosen. (Edit: in the first year, members can nominate as many people as they deem appropriate.)

7. From the list of nominees, we will conduct a voting tournament to identify the six people who will be inducted each year.

8. (Edit - new rule.) If more than half of the top vote-getters are from one division, the lower vote-getters will not be inducted (in that year) and will be replaced by the highest vote-getters outside the division, in order to meet the induction figures described in Rule #1 and ensure that no more than half are from any one division.

9. (Edit - new rule.). In no year, including the inaugural year, will more than three players from one team be inducted. The assigned team will be the team that the player's infamy is MOST associated with, rather than any/all teams they were associated with.


With that said, nominations for the inaugural 2025 Hall of Infamy are now open. Post your nominees in the thread and I'll organize the voting tournament.

[George Liquor]

X-Factor, since he's in the real hall of fame too!!!

[hometeam]

Terrel Owens, Aaron Hernandez, Michael Vick, OJ Simpson, Ray Rice, Kellen Winslow

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by George Liquor

X-Factor, since he's in the real hall of fame too!!!

🤣 was that ever proven as fact?

[Bump]

My top 3 without too much thought about it for each position

QB

Mike Vick (dogs)
Tom Brady (deflategate, tuck rule, makes out with son)
Ryan Leaf (bust and had meltdowns)

RB

Lawrence Phillips (piece of shit)
OJ Simpson (murder)
Ray Rice (wife beater)

WRs

Antonio Brown isn't eligible yet but here's a lock for this
Rae Carruth (murder)
Terrel Owens (attitude)

TEs

Aaron Hernandez (murder)
Kellen Winslow Jr (piece of shit)

OL

Richie Incognito (bully)
The Broncos dirty OL from the 90s (except their center because he played for my favorite team afterwards and did good)

dline

Ndamukong Suh (dirty but was a beast)
Albert Haynesworth (biggest free agent bust all time, lazy AF)
Aldon Smith (probably would have been a hall of famer if he wasn't a criminal)

Linebackers

Bill Romanowski (roids, dirty)
Vontaze Burfict (cheap shot artist)
Ray Lewis (murder)

CBs

Pacman Jones (was in a lot of trouble early in his career)
Aquib Talib (dirty)
Jalen Ramsey (I just never liked him)

Safeties

Rodney Harrison (Dirty)
John Lynch (dirty)
Kareem Jackson (dirty)

[Ocotillo]

Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois

All the murderers should be go in first.
IMO, nothings more shameful than stealing another persons's existence. Being unrepentant and evading justice just makes it worse.

Ed Elway is now a killer.

[Ocotillo]

Originally Posted by wazu

Also worth noting we don't want this to be the Broncos Hall of Infamy. If we unveil it and after 5 years we have 30 Broncos players it probably isn't going to be taken seriously.

The Donkeys are evil incarnate. They should have a strong representation in the Hall of Infamy.

[In58men]

All 5 of these guys have taken lives of others.

1. Jovan Belcher

2. Dontè Stallworth

3. Aaron Hernandez

4. Rae Carruth

5. Tommy Kane

[Rain Man]

Keep 'em coming. We'll button up the nomination process tomorrow.

[jjchieffan]

Originally Posted by Bump

My top 3 without too much thought about it for each position

QB

Mike Vick (dogs)
Tom Brady (deflategate, tuck rule, makes out with son)
Ryan Leaf (bust and had meltdowns)

RB

Lawrence Phillips (piece of shit)
OJ Simpson (murder)
Ray Rice (wife beater)

WRs

Antonio Brown isn't eligible yet but here's a lock for this
Rae Carruth (murder)
Terrel Owens (attitude)

TEs

Aaron Hernandez (murder)
Kellen Winslow Jr (piece of shit)

OL

Richie Incognito (bully)
The Broncos dirty OL from the 90s (except their center because he played for my favorite team afterwards and did good)

dline

Ndamukong Suh (dirty but was a beast)
Albert Haynesworth (biggest free agent bust all time, lazy AF)
Aldon Smith (probably would have been a hall of famer if he wasn't a criminal)

Linebackers

Bill Romanowski (roids, dirty)
Vontaze Burfict (cheap shot artist)
Ray Lewis (murder)

CBs

Pacman Jones (was in a lot of trouble early in his career)
Aquib Talib (dirty)
Jalen Ramsey (I just never liked him)

Safeties

Rodney Harrison (Dirty)
John Lynch (dirty)
Kareem Jackson (dirty)

How did you miss the HGH infused cheater who had a Superbowl handed to him so that he could retire with as many rings as his little brother???

[wazu]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I was actually tempted to make a rule that at least half of inductees need to be outside the AFC West, due to the preponderance of broncos and Raiders players on the list. But it's hard to justify such a rule arbitrarily.

Re-thinking this. I think you're onto something here. Instead of AFC West, though, we could say something like "no more than 3 players from any single team per year". Or we could just use your "half" idea and say from any division.

[Otter]

Ndamukong Suh

[Ocotillo]

Originally Posted by wazu

Re-thinking this. I think you're onto something here. Instead of AFC West, though, we could say something like "no more than 3 players from any single team per year". Or we could just use your "half" idea and say from any division.

I think the entire inaugural class should be Donkeys to make a strong and loud statement to their franchise and the fanbase that they support evil.

[Ocotillo]

Since there's not enough Donkeys on the nominee list

Travis Henry (drug dealer)
George Foster (broke a Bengals lineman's leg on MNF)
Dan Neil (broke a former teammate's leg with a chop block)
Randy Gradishar (for starting the Promise Keepers)
Dale Carter (traitor scum)
Emmanuel Sanders (backstabbed the Chiefs)

[wazu]

Originally Posted by Ocotillo

I think the entire inaugural class should be Donkeys to make a strong and loud statement to their franchise and the fanbase that they support evil.

Exhibit A on why we need the limitation.

[T-post Tom]