Historic Season In Play For Antonio Brown
June 2nd, 2021
Hall call
With a Super Bowl ring, seven Pro Bowl honors and four first-team All-Pro awards, Joe comfortably will say Antonio Brown already is worthy of the Hall of Fame.
However, Hall voters may not agree.
Whether they are clueless or not is not the point of this post.
The message is that Brown, in 2021, easily could pass the career yardage totals this season of four Hall of Fame receivers. Currently, Brown is No. 31 all-time when it comes to total yards receiving at 11,746. With less than 1,000 yards in this 17-game season, Brown can cruise past Don Maynard, Michael Irvin, Charlie Joiner and Art Monk, all members of the Hall.
If Brown has seven touchdown catches this season, he would move past four Hall of Famers in that category. With 79 regular-season touchdown catches, Brown ranks tied for 30th in NFL history with Hall of Famers Harold Carmichael and Charley Taylor.
Brown turns 33 next month and, obviously, could play at least three more seasons and amass numbers that would place him among the elite of NFL royalty.
Joe’s grateful Brown behaved last season in Tampa, and Joe is thinking that maybe, just maybe, cementing first-ballot Hall of Fame status with one more solid Bucs season is something that will help motivate Brown to stay on the right path.
June 2nd, 2021 at 9:53 am
Those old white guys are definitely not going to want to vote for AB. Just look at the BS that happened with TO….
June 2nd, 2021 at 9:59 am
I didn’t realize how good this guy was until he joined the Bucs. Wasn’t paying enough attention to the whole league, I suppose. But he opened my eyes. What a remarkable athlete. Never saw a better all-round receiver than him. Just hope he keeps on the straight and narrow. Brady will probably be on top of that. What an offensive display is in the works.
June 2nd, 2021 at 10:00 am
Brady, Gronk, Evans, AB, 4 Hall Of Famers on the current roster.
The years will pass and all 4 will be in.
Brady and Gronk are locks, If Mike just stays consistent, he is in.
Politics would be the only reason for AB not getting in, but I believe he will play well the next couple of years and cement his credentials and get in the Hall.
GO BUCS!!!!!!
June 2nd, 2021 at 10:06 am
The NFL is almost 70% black, and the voters devote their entire life to covering these players. If AB does have to wait to get into the hall it will have nothing to do with race, and everything to do with his own actions.
June 2nd, 2021 at 10:08 am
Just Imagine what Mike Evan’s resume will look like by the time he is 33
June 2nd, 2021 at 10:09 am
Uhhmmm Says:
June 2nd, 2021 at 9:53 am
Those old white guys
…………….
And some wonder what’s wrong with the world today.
SMH
June 2nd, 2021 at 10:43 am
If Brown plays two more years with the Bucs and gets 1k yards and over 8 touchdowns in each I don’t see how even the morons (not Ira and a handful of others obviously) on the selection committee can keep him out. Lynch taking so long to get in and Calvin Johnson getting in before Ronde tells us all you need to know about a$$ backwards most of the folks on that committee are and should be banned forevermore from journalism. 😛
June 2nd, 2021 at 10:45 am
The NFL is almost 70% black, and the voters devote their entire life to covering these players. If AB does have to wait to get into the hall it will have nothing to do with race, and everything to do with his own actions.
So the hall of fame voters are 70% black too right???
June 2nd, 2021 at 10:46 am
Too many old white dudes. Not enough diversity. Wake the F up
June 2nd, 2021 at 10:48 am
Of the 48 media members who constitute the voting committee of Pro Football Hall Of Fame, only six are Black. In a sport that’s 70 percent Black, over 85 percent of the people holding the key to Canton are white. Entrance into the Hall of Fame in the most popular of the four major North American sports is decided upon by one of the least racially diverse groups this side of Augusta National.
June 2nd, 2021 at 10:58 am
@Uhhmmm Disparities do not equal discrimination. There is not nor has there ever been equal distribution of any literal thing, race, or type of person across the entire globe at any point in the history of man. You are brain washed by a political social vision that victimizes the same people they allegedly are championing.
June 2nd, 2021 at 10:58 am
Uhhmmm
You are a P.O.S. Waste of flesh and you epitomize racism.
June 2nd, 2021 at 11:12 am
Any race is equally qualified to have a distinct lack of integrity so that has zero bearing on the selection committee being nearly bereft of it. Being Asian,African American, Caucasian, Hispanic (that’s me and trust me, I know from first hand experience that Hispanic people can lack integrity just as easily as caucasions) etc. has nothing to do with the selection process. We are all human and identical genetically. Race is a human made construct made to divide people. That’s the truth that will bring people together again someday.
June 2nd, 2021 at 11:13 am
@Mitch
You post was completely apt.
I think maybe I just said it more succinctly.
June 2nd, 2021 at 11:14 am
Well put Buczilla
June 2nd, 2021 at 11:34 am
If Michael, sniff, Irvin can get in then I see no reason for AB not to get in.
June 2nd, 2021 at 11:46 am
70 percent you say? Try the NFL is 80+African American. Where is the diversity in that? I don’t read you championing Asians or Hispanic diversity, face it, it is you who are the racist in every sense of the word.
June 2nd, 2021 at 11:49 am
If you are Hispanic, you ARE Caucasian. One is regional. The other is race. Very little, if any, prejudice in HOF voting. This isn’t the 1950s. The one area in America where bigotry is largely a thing of the past, is sports. Team sports unify people in a common cause. Paul “Bear” Bryant is largely responsible for making integrated football acceptable in the south.
June 2nd, 2021 at 11:57 am
Race will not be a factor in AB’s induction/snub. He’ll get in because of his on field play or kept out because of his off field problems. Race will have nothing to do with it. Stop creating hate. Believe it or not, the overwhelming majority of us old white guys are not racists. AB is either a victim of his own actions, the company he keeps or both. It’s up to him to fix that. Hopefully he has. Way too much talent to not be a first ballot inductee.
June 2nd, 2021 at 12:07 pm
Old white guys…..excluding Ira….
June 2nd, 2021 at 12:17 pm
What a racist statement, because it presumes that all blacks people think the same way: “Of the 48 media members who constitute the voting committee of Pro Football Hall Of Fame, only six are Black. In a sport that’s 70 percent Black, over 85 percent of the people holding the key to Canton are white. Entrance into the Hall of Fame in the most popular of the four major North American sports is decided upon by one of the least racially diverse groups this side of Augusta National.”
Demands for diversity based solely on skin color is the definition of racism. It stereotypes all people of a particular race. Donald Trump did more for HBCUs than Barack Obama. So that blows up the idea that a black person is automatically going to favor a black person.
June 2nd, 2021 at 12:32 pm
TO was 2nd ALL TIME (at the time) to none other than Jerry Rice and because of his “antics” was held from being inducted til much later. This shows how HIGHLY politicized this process is. It’s “supposed” to be about statistics!
If history has taught us anything with WRs, especially prima donnas, there is NO WAY that AB is a 1st ballot HOF.
The story of AB will forever be clouded by his late career antics and drama. Brown was a 6th rd pick who grinded his way to the top. It was when he became a #1 WR and earning a hefty paycheck when the antics began.
June 2nd, 2021 at 1:09 pm
Uhhmmm,
Perhaps you should find a lawyer or accountant to help you with this problem…
June 2nd, 2021 at 1:15 pm
Buczilla Says:
“Race is a human made construct made to divide people. That’s the truth that will bring people together again someday.”
ModHairKen Says:
“Demands for diversity based solely on skin color is the definition of racism.”
A couple of gems here that deserve highlighting. Well said Gentlemen.
June 2nd, 2021 at 1:44 pm
Uhhumm, are you serious? Is Jerry Rice white? He went in first shot. If a white person said all those old black guys, he or she would probably get arrested for a hate crime. Fact is there are many black athletes in the NFL Hall of Fame. I hope when the athletes are voted in character is taken into consideration no matter what race. These athletes are supposed promote the NFL in a positive way, TO did NOT. A pure case of reverse discrimination. Douche bag.
June 2nd, 2021 at 1:48 pm
As a Druid, I am offended there are no Druids in any sport HoF.
There is systematic rayssissizm against northern Europeans who lift large rocks and organize them in specific scientific patterns.
I want reparations and sympathy.
June 2nd, 2021 at 2:03 pm
Sympathy….yes. Reparations?…..No.
June 2nd, 2021 at 2:14 pm
Are ancestors of Irish indentured servants entitled to reparations?
How about coolie slaves?
June 2nd, 2021 at 2:30 pm
sympathy? puhlease……..
it was equal long ago. if anything the pendulum has swung. If you aren’t a minority you are a racist now a days and not only do you not get help….you get the exact opposite and have to pay for those that get the “help”.
I feel no sympathy whatsoever. BLM are terrorist as is antifa
June 2nd, 2021 at 2:31 pm
Obama set race relations back 50 years.
June 2nd, 2021 at 2:41 pm
@1sparkybuc
“If you are Hispanic, you ARE Caucasian.”
I’ve already stated that race is irrelevant and made up by humans, but I can’t go letting folks that don’t know any better confuse others. Afro Cubans are most certainly NOT Caucasian sir/m’am. Not that there is a thing in the world wrong with being a Caucasian.
June 2nd, 2021 at 3:00 pm
I want reparations.
I need a new Bill Currie SUV with all the bells and whistles.
It is immoral to systemically suppress and oppress Druids.
We deserve Free Cheese and 24″ rim spinners. Becaude. Oh, and systemic groveling apologies.
Now hop to it!
Make sure the SUV is pearlescent white with cream interior or I’ll burn the m’f’r down!
( Am I doing this right?)
June 2nd, 2021 at 3:44 pm
@Buczilla. One is a continent, the other is a country. Neither is a race. Africa has more than one race. Cuba has more than one race. Hispanic origin is Southern Europe, a region, not a race.
June 2nd, 2021 at 3:51 pm
I just came here to read about the Bucs. Thanks for the hijack Uhhmmmm. Last thing this blog needs.
June 2nd, 2021 at 3:55 pm
While I appreciate that this is a sports blog and most of the comments on race are mostly tongue in cheek, this conversation illustrates part of the issue with really addressing racism. To say it is a thing of a past is ignoring the reality of the situation.
For the most part, we have moved beyond individual racists but the systems we all live by are still racist. You need look no farther than arrests for marijuana possession to see the discriminatory nature of policing. To be clear, I’m not saying cops are racist, I’m saying the system they operate in is.
June 2nd, 2021 at 4:16 pm
1sparkybuc
@ Hispanic refers to Spain which is indeed in southern Europe, but it also refers to every Spanish speaking country, including those in Latin America. Unless you have written a new dictionary that has been accepted by the whole of academia I’d recommend that you read the definition of Hispanic. Again, calling all Hispanics Caucasians is absurd and you seem to be conveniently forgetting that you wrote that statement.
June 2nd, 2021 at 4:22 pm
@dvashun: if you don’t want to get attested for pot in an area where that activity is contrary to prevailing law, don’t possess said pot in that jurisdiction.
Problem solved.
You are welcome.
June 2nd, 2021 at 4:42 pm
@ dvashun
Marijuana needs to be legal everywhere, period. I’ve gotten grief from blacks, whites, Hispanics, etc., mostly because “skin deep” I don’t fit neatly into any category. Everyone, regardless of race is capable of racism though. I’m convinced that someone close to me spent entirely too much time in jail because of the way they looked as opposed to what they had done, so even though some systems need an overhaul, not every system is based on race.
June 2nd, 2021 at 5:43 pm
I used to think the Hall Of Fame was cool. And then I visted Ohio. Beautiful State but the people are some of the worst I ever met. Cincy arent so bad but the closer to Canada you get the worse it gets.
And I thought Clevland wouldnt be so bad because its supposted to be some big “sports town”…….I would say the soul of that sports city is about as dilapidated as their old factories.
June 2nd, 2021 at 5:50 pm
When AB’s career is finally over with he will indeed have more than enough credentials to be voted into the HOF despite his off the field antics . Can’t ignore the numbers & stats . It’s not like MLB with the “steroid era” .
June 2nd, 2021 at 6:22 pm
The irony of all these conversations is that prior to this HOF thread, the majority pulls for him and has total admiration of him as an athlete. Love to see him in the HOF but if his personal actions cost his so be it, that’s on him no biased involved.
June 2nd, 2021 at 9:38 pm
@Uhhmmm
TO won’t get into the hall because he burned his bridges. San Francisco won’t want him as their inductee as he wanted out of there and filed a grievance. Lord knows Philly and Andy Reid won’t pick him for their team. Do to all the issues in the locker room, the Cowboys let him go after a 1000 yard season with 10 TDs. Well maybe Jerry Jones might want him in just to have one more Cowboys in there, but I am sure he is way down on the list. Buffalo? Cincinnati? I am sure you have to be on a team more than one year. His production at that point was a good WR1 when Dallas released him. So tell me which team with stan for him because you know. He burned two of his teams and one released him for his locker room antics. This is on TO not some white voters.
June 2nd, 2021 at 10:33 pm
Uhhmmm Says:
“Of the 48 media members who constitute the voting committee of Pro Football Hall Of Fame, only six are Black. In a sport that’s 70 percent Black, over 85 percent of the people holding the key to Canton are white.”
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6 of 48 = 12.5% Almost exactly the percentage of blacks in the US population. What, exactly, are you b!tching, about? If we used the popular racist argument that the body should represent what our population looks like, then the 70% black NFL league is what is “racist.”
When people like you demand “diversity,” what you really mean is less white people. Bigot.
June 2nd, 2021 at 10:49 pm
kaimaru…. TO went in 2018 to the Hall of Fame.
June 2nd, 2021 at 10:54 pm
1sparkybuc Says:
“If you are Hispanic, you ARE Caucasian.”
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Hispanic commonly (in the US) refers to all South/Central (Latin) Americans and Caribbeans who speak Spanish. Although the Caucasian roots in this region are Spanish, there is a lot of Portuguese, Dutch, English, and French culture (among others). Large percentages of Hispanics are of African and indigenous roots (and large percentages mixed), so I don’t believe that it is correct to assume Hispanic only refers to the Caucasians.
I’m pretty sure that the Nixon administration first coined the phrase “hispanic” in the US specifically as a way to group Latin Amercans for census purposes.
Off the top of my head, so open to any corrections.
June 3rd, 2021 at 7:52 am
Crazy to think the Bucs have 3 number 1 WRs on their roster.
June 3rd, 2021 at 9:27 am
Over 70% of NFL players are black yet they only make up less than 20% of the population. How can noone see the obvious systemic racism right in front of our very eyes? I demand you let less qualified non blacks get grunted roster spots because we NEED MORE DIVERISTY!
June 3rd, 2021 at 12:47 pm
So what do all the racists here think of the NFL having different criteria for settling CTE disability claims based on black players starting out with lower IQ’s.
Cool with that? Shocked by the NFL’s ongoing systemic racism? Or is this not racism, just science?
June 3rd, 2021 at 2:10 pm
Lambeau, what exactly is the criteria? I believe the NFL wants to avoid payouts on all CTE cases. Please educate me on exactly what claims you are referring to? Or is this something you read off a CNN news scroll?
June 3rd, 2021 at 2:42 pm
I don’t know about CNN but the NY Times and Washington Post reported yesterday that the NFL announced it was going to cease using different criteria for measuring dementia in black and white players. Until now the assumption was that black players might start with lower IQ’s, so CTE claims had to be based on race-based norms, leading to double the approval rate of disability claims for white players in the billion dollar NFL settlement.