PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY BREIF THOUGHTS

I did a live blog type of thing with the induction ceremony tonight. These were my thoughts done on the spot at the time they aired:

• Steve Mariucci is already better at this than Tom Jackson.
• I could watch footage of Bill Parcells bitching at someone forever.
• I'm taking the under and say Parcells gets at least a bit chocked up during his speech.
• The less hair Rich Eisen has, the better he looks.
• I think I went to high school with a least five or six Warren Sapps.
• Tony Dungy looks remarkably like John Waters.
• Chris Berman's introductions are so long, that they're cutting to the next guy he's supposed to be getting to. It's not a big deal, but it makes me laugh.
• Warren Sapp is wearing the always fashionable gold jacket, dress pants and sneakers ensemble.
• Jonathan Ogden could have fit at least two normal sized pass rushers inside of him.
• It's pretty easy to make a bust of someone when they look exactly the same for their entire career.
• Speaking of guys who are going to cry: Ray Lewis is gonna ball when he goes in in five years.
• Rich Eisen put it best: "A nice, classy lead off speech."
• How fitting that a Lion would get forgotten among the returning hall of famers. Poor Charlie Sanders.
• Dave Robinson never led with his head when he tackled someone. Something got lost in the ensuing forty-five, fifty years.
• There are twelve players from those 60s Packers teams in the hall of fame. The only guy they're missing is Jerry Kramer.
• One of the downsides of being inducted through the senior committee is that a ton of people that were influential to the inductees are all gone.
• Dave Robinson really got into a groove in the middle of his speech.
• Larry Allen was so big, it almost seemed unfair that he accomplished some of the stuff he did.
• LeBron James was nine years old when Larry Allen started playing for the Cowboys. That's... distressing.
• They really want you to know that Bill Parcells is coming up.
• Larry Allen was clearly nervous, but man was his speech great.
• Bill Parcells mentored a lot of guys who went on to win a bunch of Super Bowls.
• Tony Romo's been the Cowboys' quarterback for a long, long time.
• Bill Parcells was so great: concise, poignant and awesome.
• Curley Culp looks like he could still take me, even at his age.
• My grandfather walked in during Bill Parcells' speech and watched Curley Culp's. He mused that baseball players seem to be more emotional when going into the hall of fame. I told him to wait for Warren Sapp if he wants to see someone cry.
• They're actually sticking to fair speech length this year. I've got a feeling Cris Carter's gonna go on for a while though.
• My grandfather said after Warren Sapp and Cris Carter's speeches: "Now those are hall of fame speeches."

I love this time of the year.