Morten Andersen Enters the Pro Football Hall of Fame

In a commentary for Sports Illustrated in 2010, King said, “The Pro Football Hall of Fame is for what men do on the football field”.

On Saturday, Morten Andersen received his gold jacket ahead of his Hall of Fame induction, becoming just the second kicker in National Football League history to earn that sport coat.

“I don’t ever think about that”, Fitzgerald said.

LaDainian Tomlinson and Jason Taylor were first-ballot Hall of Fame selections.

Over 233 career games, Taylor registered 139.5 sacks, collected three safeties and returned three of his eight interceptions for touchdowns.

Fitzgerald calls himself a football historian.

Before his career was cut short because of injuries, Terrell Davis was one of the best players in the NFL.

Having the left tackle be the best player on the team isn’t the most exciting thing for football fans, but it is perhaps the most important position on the entire field.

There he re-connected with Warner’s family, who Fitzgerald said he hasn’t seen in “a while”.

“I did”, Davis said.

A star mostly with Miami, Taylor also spent one season with the Redskins and one with the Jets.

“But my pastor, Tyrone Armstrong, (who is) here tonight. has said many times: ‘There is a season for everything and while we sometimes try to figure it out, God has already worked it out”. “I’ve run into him over time; he’s done a lot of NFL Network events, pro days that I’ve been a part of”. No one raised their hand.

“The whole speech was getting away from what everybody knows”, he said. If those aren’t Hall of Fame numbers, we’re not too sure what are. In fact, it was the type of speech that people will talk about for years to come. It features an emotional journey through the respective careers of every inductee, so let’s look at what these legends had to say about joining the ranks of the immortals.

His most impactful words on this evening (when he wasn’t telling stories that had the crowd highly entertained) were simple and were directed at his sons Aiden and Sebastian.

The stories about where the Hall of Famers came from and the adversity some of them overcame struck a cord with Fitzgerald.

“I’m asking you to believe in your ability to bring about change, to hold fast to the faith and the idea whispered by slaves: Yes, we can”, said Tomlinson. “I don’t think he would’ve wanted his sacrifice to be cheapened in any way just so his name could be in the Hall of Fame”. He would go out in his front yard and reenact the moments which these great men did on the gridiron, and he hoped to be there one day alongside them. Any stop on the way his plans, his dreams could’ve been derailed.

“My story isn’t only about my love for my country of Denmark and its people, but also my deep appreciation and respect for what I discovered here in the United States of America”.