A Vote For Fred

The team's Hall of Fame nominees are now being voted on by the fans. There is stiff competition this year between former HC Bill Parcells, WR Troy Brown and Safety, Fred Marion.

I still don't like the how the team selects the inductees because it tends to focus more on players from the Kraft era. It's only natural for that to happen. I never followed the team until 1966, so my memory of some of the oldest players is non-existent.This is one of the oldest arguments in sports. You can only evaluate players you have seen in your own lifetime.

With that in mind, I cast an on-line vote for Fred Marion. I think it's unfair to have Coach Parcells compete with Brown and Marion. The fact that Parcells must be voted in slows the process down. He should have been voted in automatically. Any further conversation is wasting time. I think the team is wrong in only having one inductee annually. Many deserving players will never make it.

Brown was a brilliant player and a no-brainer as an inductee. However, by voting for Marion, I feel that I am advocating for the older players from a much different era. So many fans have no clue of the Billy Sullivan, Victor Kiam, and James Orthwein ownership eras.

In the end, it depends on how old you are as far as remembering players.