Ok, Lynn Swann HOFer or no?

[mastermind]

I know this isnt NFL season speak, but I have been in an extensive debate with idiots on the Extreme Skins forum who think that because Lynn Swann made two great catches he should be in the HOF. Ignore his stats in comparison to his peers, etc, those two catches make Swann a HOFer according to them.

Agree, disagree? no?

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

fukk no. 2nd most Most overrated NFL player ever next to Joe Namath.

 

[SoulController]

god no. Marcus Allen and Lynn have the lamest stats for any HOF player in any sport, and that criteria is equally lame

was he a guy who made big plays in some big games? yea, but he wasnt HOF

 

[Black]

fukk no. 2nd most Most overrated NFL player ever next to Joe Namath.

really nikka?????

 

[mastermind]

god no. Marcus Allen and Lynn have the lamest stats for any HOF player in any sport, and that criteria is equally lame

was he a guy who made big plays in some big games? yea, but he wasnt HOF

I wish I could post some of those posts on there, this dude believes that Lynn Swann is the reason for the explosion of football on TV and the explosion of the Super Bowl's popularity. I swear Im reading this shyt like

these are middle aged white men saying this.

 

[Absolut]

hell no

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Nope

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

really nikka?????

So Mr. 173 TDs, 220 ints, 50% completion isn't overrated?

 

[QuarterCenturyLegend]

fukk the Steelers and no

 

[Absolut]

namath takes the cake, but swann is awfully overrated. a guy like irving fryar shytS all over swann as a receiver, but isnt sniffing the hall. ill never understand why swann gets the love he does

 

[SubLyminalz]

fukk the Steelers and no

negged





and i dont think he is a hofer over hines.

 

[mastermind]

this was dude's post that set off the debate

Fun to see the young'ns say silly stuff like this.


Lynn Swann down the middle tipping the ball away from Charley Waters in Super Bowl X and catching it diving to the ground for a 55 yard gain.
Lynn Swann on the sidelines of Super Bowl 12 spinning and making an impossible toe tapping catch.Later in the same game, Lynn Swann on a crossing route to the back of the end zone.. ball is thrown right at the camera... he slides in for the game winning score.

All of those plays happened before you were born, and if you're any sort of football fan you know exactly what they are.
You can replay them in your head based on those simple descriptions. You've seen them a thousand times thanks to NFL Films.


Lynn Swann was synonymous with Super Bowl, Big Game, Superstar.. in an era when the NFl was just beginning to get it's feet under it as the inexorable part of our lives it has become.
Lynn Swann is a reason why the Super Bowl is the biggest game on Earth.

The Hall of Fame is not the Hall of Stats.

Lynn Swann and Joe Namath played bigger parts in creating the league you grew up loving than almost any two other players in the 60s and 70s.

two games, and catches are why dude thinks Swann is a HOFer


He also claims Swann redefined the WR position.

 

[STAN JONES]

negged





and i dont think he is a hofer over hines.

Hines aint no damn hofer

 

[Absolut]

homie averaged less than 40 catches/600 yards in a season. bradshaw threw for 3700 yards one season and swann only managed 800 of those.

His 5,462 receiving yards place him 196th on the all-time list

His 51 career receiving touchdowns put him in a five-way tie for 96th all time with Tony Hill and Del Shofner.

336 career receptions place him way outside of the top 250 all time. In fact, more than thirty running backs have more career receptions than Lynn Swann, and Dave Megget has just as many. Further, more than 30 tight ends have more career receptions than Lynn Swann, and Charlie Sanders has just as many.


why is he in the hall?

Gene Washington (69-79) 385 rec, 6856 yds, 60 TDs
Cliff Branch (72-85) 501 rec, 8685 yds, 67 TDs
Mel Gray (71-82) 351 rec, 6644 yds, 45 TDs
Ken Burrough (70-81) 421 rec, 7102 yds, 49 TDs
Isaac Curtis (73-84) 416 rec, 7101 yds, 53 TDs
Sammy White (76-85) 393 rec, 6400 yds, 50 TDs
Harold Carmichael (71-84) 590 rec, 8985 yds, 79 TDs
Ahmad Rashad (72-82) 495 rec, 6831 yds, 44 TDs
Alfred Jenkins (75-83) 360 rec, 6267 yds, 40 TDs
Drew Pearson (73-83) 489 rec, 7822 yds, 48 TDs

other wr's from his era, not in the hall. is he better than any of them? lol @ ignoring his numbers and focusing on 2 catches in the guys career

 

[rocksteady]

imo, he wasn't even the best receiver on his own team in that era (john stallworth).