<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>He has been nominated but did not play enough games as a pro to justify it per the Indy Star:</div><div><h2 class="gnt_ar_b_h2" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 28px 0px 18px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 24px; line-height: 26px; font-family: 'Unify Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Arial Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #303030; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 28px 0px 18px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 24px; line-height: 26px; font-family: 'Unify Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Arial Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #303030; background-color: #ffffff;">Bob Sanders</h2><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">Is Bob Sanders a Hall-of-Famer?</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">No.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">Don't misunderstand. Sanders was a great football player. Indianapolis almost certainly wouldn't have a Super Bowl title without him. He belongs in the Colts' Ring of Honor. He just won't make the Hall of Fame.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">But in recognition of what he accomplished in Indy, here is his case for Canton:</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">>> For a three-year stretch, Sanders was as good as any safety in NFL history.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">>> There are fewer safeties (eight) than any other non-special teams position in the Hall of Fame.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">In 2005 and '07, Sanders was first-team Associated Press All-NFL. In 2006, he played in only four regular-season games but returned for the playoffs and turned around the Colts defense, leading the team to a Super Bowl title.</p><aside aria-label="advertisement" class="gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al" style="margin: 14px auto 32px; height: 408px; clear: both; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="margin: 14px auto 32px; height: 408px; clear: both; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-g-r="lazy" data-gl-method="lazyLoadX" id="ad-slot-7103-in-indianapolis-C1532-native-article_link-sports-football-nfl-6" class="gnt_x_sl gnt_x_al" data-google-query-id="CISlk-eYgfECFSCApgQdLAENTA" style="contain: content; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); width: initial; min-height: 250px; background-color: unset; margin: auto; position: relative; height: 390px; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; flex-direction: column; z-index: 1;" data-mce-style="contain: content; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); width: initial; min-height: 250px; background-color: unset; margin: auto; position: relative; height: 390px; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; flex-direction: column; z-index: 1;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_7103/in-indianapolis-C1532/native-article_link/sports/football/nfl_4__container__" style="border: 0pt none; display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 250px;" data-mce-style="border: 0pt none; display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 250px;"><iframe frameborder="0" src="https://95fb4aede2cdba5a0857035033400a73.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html" id="google_ads_iframe_7103/in-indianapolis-C1532/native-article_link/sports/football/nfl_4" title="3rd party ad content" name="" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" width="300" height="250" data-is-safeframe="true" sandbox="allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" allow="conversion-measurement 'src'" data-google-container-id="6" data-load-complete="true" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; vertical-align: bottom;" data-mce-src="https://95fb4aede2cdba5a0857035033400a73.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html" data-mce-style="border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; vertical-align: bottom;"></iframe></div></div></aside><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">The Colts gave up 173 rushing yards per game in the 2006 regular season – including the memorable 375 in a 44-17 loss to Jacksonville in Week 14 – which was worst in the league; the team ranking 31st in allowing rushing yards averaged 145. When Sanders returned for the playoffs, that number dropped to 82.8. He also intercepted a pass in the first round and Super Bowl.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">Here is what IndyStar Colts beat writer Phil Richards said about Sanders heading into those playoffs:</p><blockquote class="gnt_ar_b_bq" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 40px 0px 0px; padding-left: 26px; border-left: 4px solid #0098fe; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 40px 0px 0px; padding-left: 26px; border-left: 4px solid #0098fe; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;"><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;">"Sanders is the defense's energizer, its fastest player, its biggest hitter and probably its surest tackler.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px;">"He plays with passion, and when he's out there you definitely feel his presence," linebacker Gary Brackett said. "Some of those long runs wouldn't happen without him out there knocking them down."</p></blockquote><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">In 2007, Sanders became just the third safety (after Dick Anderson and Kenny Easley) to be named AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">So, Sanders was one of the top safeties in the NFL in each of three consecutive seasons, was Defensive Player of the Year and won a Super Bowl. Only two other players have done that and both will be Hall of Famers when eligible: Troy Polamalu and Ed Reed.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">But there's one problem: That's all Bob Sanders did.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">He played in a total of 17 games the rest of his career. He never played more than six in a season.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">Sanders played in 50 total games.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">The only player in the Hall of Fame with fewer games is Joe Guyon, a triple-threat halfback from the 1920s. The fewest games played by a Hall of Famer whose career was played primarily in the 1980s or after is Kellen Winslow, who appeared in 109. Even Gale Sayers appeared in 68.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">Sanders would be an excellent choice for the Colts' Ring of Honor, recognizing his key role in the franchise's only Indianapolis Super Bowl.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; color: #303030; font-family: 'Georgia Pro', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;">But unfortunately, he couldn't stay healthy enough long enough to put together a Hall of Fame career.</p><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Bill Yost" <oldxbbc1@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>herky@lists.herky.net<br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, June 5, 2021 12:01:04 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Herky] Howe: Hawkeyes Worthy of Hall of Fame Ballot Inclusion<br><div><br></div><div dir="auto">Definitely agree</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 11:55 SRINIVAS REDDY Chirra <<a href="mailto:hawkeye_fan@hotmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:hawkeye_fan@hotmail.com">hawkeye_fan@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" data-mce-style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: #cccccc;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Unless I missed it, I am surprised to not see Bob Sanders on this list.</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Was he not an all-American or something?</div><div id="m_4876540483703731581appendonsend"><br></div><hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" data-mce-style="display: inline-block; width: 98%;"><div id="m_4876540483703731581divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">From:</b> Herky <<a href="mailto:herky-bounces@lists.herky.net" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" data-mce-href="mailto:herky-bounces@lists.herky.net" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">herky-bounces@lists.herky.net</a>> on behalf of Larry Edwards <<a href="mailto:larryed6124@knology.net" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" data-mce-href="mailto:larryed6124@knology.net" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">larryed6124@knology.net</a>><br> <b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Sent:</b> Saturday, June 5, 2021 9:08 AM<br> <b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">To:</b> herky <<a href="mailto:herky@lists.herky.net" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" data-mce-href="mailto:herky@lists.herky.net" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">herky@lists.herky.net</a>><br> <b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Subject:</b> [Herky] Howe: Hawkeyes Worthy of Hall of Fame Ballot Inclusion</span><div> </div></div><div><div style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; 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