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Home > Notre Dame Football > The Wait Is Over: Tim Brown & Jerome Bettis in Hall of Fame

The Wait Is Over: Tim Brown & Jerome Bettis in Hall of Fame

February 2, 2015 by Ryan Ritter

Tim Brown and Jerome Bettis

The annual tradition of scratching our heads on the repeated snubs of Tim Brown and Jerome Bettis in the NFL Hall of Fame has finally come a welcome end. Both men have been elected as two of the eight members in the Hall of Fame class of 2015, the largest ever.

Bettis, the former Notre Dame running back, finished his NFL career as the 5th leading rusher of all time with 13,662 yards. After becoming a six time all-pro and having 50 games of 100 rushing yards or more (a Steelers franchise record), The Bus finished his career on top when the Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl in 2006. And this quote from a Fox Sports article is amazing:

“To think a little fat kid who had never played football until high school,” Bettis said, “to think I can ascend to this level, this is something I never thought of, never dreamed of.”

That’s all kinds of awesome.

But perhaps no snub has been bigger, and more frustrating for Notre Dame fans, than the six-year wait for Tim Brown. The former Heisman Trophy winner is 6th in all-time receiving yards (14,934 yards) and 5th all-time in receptions (1,094). He managed to do this without having much of a supporting cast or a truly great QB while on the Raiders. There was a lot of thought that Marvin Harrison, one of this year snubs, would end up getting the nod over Brown with his number, plus his championship ring. Thankfully, that didn’t happen this year and his wait is finally over.

So congrats to both of these members of the Notre Dame family for this well deserved honor. This year’s enshrinement ceremony will be on Saturday, August 8, 2015 and will likely be televised on the NFL Network (ESPN aired it last year as well on ESPN2). So make sure to take some time out of that Saturday to check it out.

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About Ryan Ritter

Editor-in-Chief
Texan by birth, Irish by choice.

First-generation Domer and a former student manager, HLS podcast host, HLS Sim creator, Extra Life streamer, and technical problem haver. You can find more non-Notre Dame related writing on his Patreon.

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  1. TERRY

    February 2, 2015 at 11:12 am

    FYI – By proclamation by the Governor of Texas, today is the 1st annual ‘Chris Kyle Day’ in the state of Texas.

    • Ryan Ritter

      February 2, 2015 at 11:14 am

      And that has absolutely nothing to do with Bettis and Brown making the Hall of Fame. Stay on topic, please.

      • TERRY

        February 2, 2015 at 12:39 pm

        Chris is from Texas. Deal with it.

        • Ryan Ritter

          February 2, 2015 at 1:01 pm

          I’m well aware. He’s from my area in fact.

          I’m just wondering what this has to do with two Domers making the NFL Hall of Fame or if this is going to go like the ND bowl conversations in which you just spout things off in a nonsensical fashion and repeat yourself over and over.

          • TERRY

            February 2, 2015 at 1:36 pm

            You’re the one who brought up our little spat from a few months ago.

            Your original question: What does this have to do with two domers making the hall of fame? Not a whole lot.

            What is more important? No-brainer.

          • Ryan Ritter

            February 2, 2015 at 1:45 pm

            http://media3.giphy.com/media/P5v6IxxhSBFTO/giphy.gif

    • Irish Elvis

      February 2, 2015 at 3:31 pm

      Aside from the governor’s proclamation that should have used “inaugural” rather than “1st annual”, why are we talking about Texas?

      Oh, right! Tex (short for Texas, probably) mentioned Tim Brown, which made me think of Texas Lt. Gov James Nathan BROWNing who served 1899-1903 and…

      • Ryan Ritter

        February 2, 2015 at 3:34 pm

        I’m actually from the Arkansas side of Texarkansa. The Texan thing is just a huge work.

        • TERRY

          February 2, 2015 at 6:29 pm

          A clip from a silly movie.

          Very mature.

          Happy groundhog day

          OMT Go Pats!!

          • Ryan Ritter

            February 2, 2015 at 6:44 pm

            I didn’t realize this was a battle of maturity after “Chris is from Texas. Deal with it.” after a polite request.

            My bad, old sport.

            http://img.pandawhale.com/post-28941-hello-old-sport-gif-Great-Gats-Iku2.gif

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