{"id":453942,"date":"2026-02-07T06:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453942\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T06:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:02:06","slug":"deion-sanders-hall-of-famers-should-vote-for-the-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453942\/","title":{"rendered":"Deion Sanders: Hall of Famers should vote for the Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deion Sanders has said in the past that he believes the Pro Football Hall of Fame should have <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/the-updated-deion-sanders-hall-of-fame-upper-room\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">an upper level<\/a> for the best of the best and he shared another opinion about the mechanics of the institution on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Hall of Fame selection process has drawn a great deal of coverage because former Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was not elected in his first year of eligibility and Sanders said on This is Football that he believes the problem is with the people who are making the choices. <\/p>\n<p>Sanders said \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bykevinclark\/status\/2019857043243622862?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ask the Hall of Famers<\/a>\u201d when asked about how he would change the process and made a pointed analogy about the current group of electors. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want the Grinch who stole Christmas voting on a beauty pageant,\u201d Sanders said. <\/p>\n<p>When host Kevin Clark replied by saying that he thinks the current committee generally does a good job, Sanders disagreed. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, they don\u2019t. They\u2019re messing it up consistently,\u201d Sanders said while naming Darren Woodson, Asante Samuel and Fred Taylor as examples of players who should be in the Hall. \u201cI just don\u2019t understand the process sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanders also returned to his previous comments about the upper level by saying that it shouldn\u2019t be \u201cthe regular Hall of Famers\u201d who vote because there are \u201clevels in that thing.\u201d There <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/hall-of-fame-will-return-to-in-person-selection-meetings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">are changes planned<\/a> for the selection process moving forward, but there\u2019s no current sign that they will include making current Hall of Famers the arbiters of who joins them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deion Sanders has said in the past that he believes the Pro Football Hall of Fame should have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-453942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}