Tingelhoff joins teammate Tarkenton in Hall of Fame

Veteran quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will pilot a potent Steelers offense featuring running back Le’Veon Bell and receiver Antonio Brown that averaged 31.2 points last year over the team’s final 10 regular-season games.

“You really appreciate that commitment and that stamina”, Cole said. Tingelhoff played from 1962-1978, and is widely regarded as the best center in his era. Those who know him, though, talk first about his humility.

Tingelhoff didn’t speak for himself, but watching Tarkenton’s emotional speech made it clear how much he meant to him, as well as to the Vikings for so many years.

One thing to keep in mind about Sunday night’s clash and the following five games is that they count for NOTHING.

Congratulations, one more time, to the great Mick Tingelhoff on reaching pro football immortality. “He’s just a good, quality human being”. He didn’t miss a start, stringing together 240 straight games.

Tingelhoff had been in good spirits when he spoke briefly to the Pioneer Press earlier Saturday, saying he was looking forward to the induction. I’m leaning Vikings here who have played competitively in the preseason before and hopefully do so here… “He never once complained”. One is Vikings defensive tackle John Randle, who was enshrined in 2010 and has a bond with Tingelhoff. Price will make his second start for Toronto after holding the Twins to a run on three hits with 11 strikeouts in Monday’s 5-1 win. Only Rita Adams, 84, didn’t make the trip.

Beaming, Tingelhoff waved to the crowd, and the undrafted lineman out of Nebraska was, at last, where he belonged – the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Ken and LuAnn Cherry, also part-time residents at Pelican Preserve Palazzo off Treeline Avenue, intend on being at both the induction ceremony and the after party, as they were invited by Phyllis Tingelhoff, Mick’s wife of 54 years.

Health issues that include memory loss coupled with the exhaustion of the week in Canton led the Tingelhoff family to decide Saturday against having Tingelhoff try to give even a brief speech.

Mick Tingelhoff – The native of Lexington, Nebraska was a 3-year letter victor for the Huskers from 1959-61, becoming a Captain in his Senior year.

Newman said it was a great learning experience the first time and one that he looks forward to enjoying again.

So are plenty of others. I’ve been very impressed with him. The two were teammates for 12 seasons, and Bergstraesser said Tarkenton is like another family member. “But today, guys, I am getting back into the locker room, to my teammates and tell them guys the mistakes that I’ve made and that the only way you can grow is that you’ve got to ask for help”. “They were as close as brothers”. Hartman got the Vikings’ doctor, Don Lannon, to show Lombardi an X-ray of Tingelhoff’s knee (torn leg muscle) and Lombardi was shocked, Hartman wrote.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame finally rights a wrong by enshrining former Minnesota Vikings center Mick Tingelhoff. Page, inducted in 1988, wrote letters over the years to promote Tingelhoff for the shrine.

“I’ve been here for a long time now”.