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The "Pro Football Hall of Fame" in Canton,
Ohio, supposedly represents all of professional
football. Yet, of its two hundred and twenty-nine members, only
ONE was never in the NFL. That one, Buffalo's Billy Shaw, played
his entire career in the AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE. Yet, at his
induction, he wore a yellow coat emblazoned with the NFL logo.
Great players like Tom Sestak, Lionel Taylor, Johnny Robinson, Abner
Haynes, and numerous other American Football League stars have been ignored by
the "Pro Football Hall of Fame", we believe because they played in the wrong
league.
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This, then, is a Hall of Fame devoted to the
players of a league that had a profound impact on professional football;
a sport that today reflects the AFL's influence in everything but name.
Our Hall of Fame list of American Football
League players, coaches, and contributors includes those who, against
tremendous odds, got into the "Pro Football Hall of Fame".
But it also includes (with names in BLUE) the
AFL stars who until now, have not received the honor they so richly
deserve. We also include
men whose lives (and deaths) after their AFL careers warrant
their induction to the AFL Hall of Fame. Names in RED
represent those who were in the
AFL HALL
OF FAME BEFORE
they were selected to the other hall of fame. |
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