Well, I was off by one.

Bruce Smith
Rod Woodson
Ralph Wilson
Randall McDaniel
Derrick Thomas
Bob Hayes

Interesting that Derrick Thomas finally got in this year, when it looked like a longer shot than in previous years.

Also strange that Shannon Sharpe didn't get into the Hall. I don't know what else the voters wanted. When Sharpe retired five years ago, he owned virtually every receiving record a tight end could want to own. He was also a star player on 3 Superbowl champions. You could say that Shannon Sharpe had the best career of any tight end in NFL history. If he doesn't need to be there, I would say no other tight end should get in.

But the real story here is Bob Hayes. I'm very happy to see Hayes get into the Hall of Fame, though I wish the voters could have let him in the club before Bullet Bob died. He absolutely changed the way the game was played and how teams scouted receivers, so he should have been in a long time ago. A short prison sentence in the 1970's for cocaine possession kept him out of the Hall all these years, it would seem, while the voters let in people like Lawrence Taylor and Michael Irvin, who weren't saints by any means.

To me, the Hall of Fame should be about what they do on the field, at least if they didn't cheat for their team (steroids: Mark McGuire, Barry Bonds) or against their team (betting: Pete Rose). Nothing Bob Hayes did undermined the integrity of the game, so he should have been in the Hall of Fame a long time ago.