The NFL Hall of Fame

Alright, we are going to play one of those fun games where I present two players' stats and you have to guess who I am talking about.  By the way, they are both retired NFL Quarterbacks:

Player A

• He was picked 12th overall in the NFL Draft.
• In his 13-year career, he had 68 Wins, 71 Losses, and 4 Ties.
• He had a 50% Completion Percentage, 27,663 Passing Yards, 173 Passing TDs and 220 INTs.
• He won 2 AFL MVPs and went to 5 Pro Bowls.
• He went to and won 1 Super Bowl and was the Super Bowl MVP.
• He is in the NFL Hall of Fame.

Player B

• He was undrafted out of college.
• In his 12-year career, he had 67 Wins and 50 Losses.
• He had a  65.5% Completion Percentage, 32,344 Passing Yards, 208 TDs and 128 INTs.
• He won 2 NFL MVPs and went to 4 Pro Bowls.
• He went to 3 and won 1 Super Bowl and won 1 Super Bowl MVP.
• He has a very slim chance of making the NFL Hall of Fame.

Have you figured it out yet?  Probably not, because if you did then you would be some sort of football wizard.  Well, Player A is Joe Namath and Player B is Kurt Warner.  While both of their careers look eerily similar, Kurt Warner has far and away the better statistical numbers, he took two different teams to the Super Bowl, and most importantly, he probably won't be inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame.  How does that even remotely make sense?  Sure, Kurt played in a different era when high offensive numbers were commonplace, but Joe Namath had a career losing record and nearly 50 more interceptions than touchdowns.  Now, I think I have come up with a solution,  If Kurt Warner is not voted into the Hall of Fame, then quite simply, Joe Namath should just be kicked out.  I don't care that Namath had a cool nickname or that he played in the biggest media market in the US or that he guaranteed a Super Bowl win, he did not have a better career than Kurt Warner and therefore if Kurt can't get in the Hall then Namath should be kicked out.

"Then again, anyone who can pull off that look should be in the Hall of Fame.  Maybe not the NFL Hall of Fame, but some sort of Hall of Fame.