{"id":850409,"date":"2026-09-17T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850409\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T01:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:16:13","slug":"tony-dungy-lisa-salters-among-those-stripped-of-pro-football-hall-of-fame-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850409\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Dungy, Lisa Salters among those stripped of Pro Football Hall of Fame votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pro Football Hall of Fame is in the midst of culling its 50-member committee of voters down to 28, a move seemingly made in response to Bill Belichick\u2019s shocking snub in his first year of eligibility earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the names that missed the cut have already gone public. Houston\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nfl\/john-mcclain-cut-pro-football-hall-of-fame-committee.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John McClain<\/a> received a call from the Hall informing him he\u2019d no longer be part of the selection committee after 33 years of service. Later, Tennessee\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nfl\/paul-kuharsky-cut-pro-football-hall-of-fame-committee.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Kuharsky<\/a> revealed he was among those cut.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Kuharsky has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulkuharsky.com\/news\/hall-of-fame-cuts-19-selectors-with-280-years-of-combined-experience\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published a list<\/a> of 19 of the 22 names that the Hall of Fame has informed would no longer be part of the selection committee under its new bylaws. Among those removed from the committee are Hall of Fame coach and former NBC Sports analyst Tony Dungy and ESPN reporter Lisa Salters, both of whom served as voters for six years.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable names include longtime Dallas Cowboys writer Rick Gosselin, who spent a whopping 31 years on the selection committee, Cleveland radio personality Tony Grossi, who also served as a voter for 31 years, former NFL executive Bill Polian, a voter for six years, and Cleveland Browns reporter Mary Kay Cabot, an 11-year selection committee member.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the full list of the 19 known names removed from Hall of Fame voting, courtesy of Kuharsky:<\/p>\n<p>Rick Gosselin<br \/>\nFrank Cooney<br \/>\nJohn McClain<br \/>\nTony Grossi<br \/>\nRon Borges<br \/>\nDarin Gantt<br \/>\nClark Judge<br \/>\nGeoff Hobson<br \/>\nJason Cole<br \/>\nArmando Salguero<br \/>\nMary Kay Cabot<br \/>\nMatt Maiocco<br \/>\nTony Dungy<br \/>\nBill Polian<br \/>\nLisa Salters<br \/>\nJoel Bussert<br \/>\nPaul Gutierrez<br \/>\nRich Cimini<br \/>\nPaul Kuharsky<\/p>\n<p>That leaves three Hall of Fame selectors that have also been removed, but are not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>Per Kuharsky, among the 28 known to remain on the selection committee are Jim Trotter, Mike Sando, Charean Williams, Calvin Watkins, Gary Myers, Jeff Legwold, Ira Kaufman, Howard Balzer, and Vahe Gregorian. Notably, <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nfl\/kansas-city-star-vahe-gregorian-hall-of-fame-voter-bill-belichick.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gregorian acknowledged he did not vote for Belichick<\/a> in his first year of eligibility, instead prioritizing the senior candidates in the Seniors\/Coach\/Contributor category that Belichick was in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pro Football Hall of Fame is in the midst of culling its 50-member committee of voters down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[249112,349,38128,99,191206],"class_list":["post-850409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-lisa-salters","tag-nfl","tag-pro-football-hall-of-fame","tag-sports","tag-tony-dungy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850409","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=850409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}