Favre, Stabler, Harrison, Greene, Pace, Dungy voted to Hall

The class of 2016 for the Pro Football Hall of Fame will be announced Saturday evening and Favre is widely considered a shoo-in to be part of the group. Each brother wore one of Grandpa’s bling-filled rings: Justin’s was from the 1977 Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders; Jack’s was from a college national championship with Alabama. His final season was in 2010, with his final game being played at TCF Bank Stadium where he suffered a season-ending concussion against the Bears. The only first-year candidate to receive over 80 percent of the committee’s vote was Brett Favre, the legendary quarterback who was considered a lock prior to voting.

Two of Stabler’s former teammates thought it was about time.

Now, Favre has joined Wolf in another family: The gold-jacketed Pro Football Hall of Fame fraternity. “He was a finalist (before) and should have gone then, but it’s never too late”.

“I was already honored to have an opportunity to play in the National Football League”, Favre said. Gridiron Glory will be showcased at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, Calif., site of Super Bowl 50, from January 18 – April 3, 2016 and is scheduled for three-month stays at various museums and cultural institutions through 2019.

“It was definitely very nerve-racking”. She said Stabler wanted it studied because he was having difficulty with impulse control in his 50s and developed memory problems and suffered from headaches in his 60s. It’s such an honor for our family to go through this.

“We lost our first five games in Tampa, and it didn’t look like I was headed this way at all”, Dungy said.

His come-from-behind skills were the stuff of legend.

“It wasn’t a situation”, he said, “where you had a lot of role models”.

He returned to Green Bay earlier this year for induction into the Packers’ Hall of Fame and all hard feelings seemed to have faded.

Favre earned three straight MVP awards from 1995-97 and led the 1996 Packers to a Super Bowl title when he beat Bill Parcells’ Patriots.

Stabler also played for the Houston Oilers from 1980-81 and the New Orleans Saints from 1982-84, retiring at age 39.

He won three MVPs with the Packers and finsihed his career as the NFL’s all-time leader in completions, yards, passing touchdowns, and wins as a quarterback.

That’s more career rushing yards than inducted NFL Hall of Famers such as Marcus Allen (12,243), Franco Harris (12,120), Thurman Thomas (12,074), John Riggins (11,352) and O.J.