“DON’T be givin’ it the big fucking innocent with me pal, because I’m NOT a fucking prick!” - Shanks, Layer Cake
I’m going to give you a series of stats, you pick the hall of famer out of the bunch. Both were three time probowlers, both only led the league in a receiving category once, both were only in the top 10 receivers in stats three times and both are not in the top 50 of all time.
Receiver 1
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-10 year career, 7 year starter
-Two 1000 yard seasons
-One 100 reception season
-6334 total receiving yards
-50 total receiving TD’s
-535 total receptions
Receiver 2
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-9 year career, 7 year starter
-Two 800 yard seasons
-One 61 reception season
-Two seasons with 11 touchdowns
-5462 total receiving yards
-51 total receiving TD’s
-336 total receptions
Based off this, who do you think the Hall of Famer is? Neither is not an option unfortunately, as the dumbfucks who vote already put one of these douchebags in…
Receiver number 1 is Haywood Jeffires
Receiver number 2 is the dickface known as Lynn Swann
No, this is not a sympathy ploy to say that Haywood should be in the hall, far from it in fact. This is to point out how brutally mediocre Lynn was.
Bleh, but floh, Lynn helped win superbowls! Yea, and the motherfucker was on a dynasty team, led by an outstanding defense. Swann got attention because he was on the Steelers, nothing more. He was never close to being the most dominating WR of his time, which is what HoF representatives are supposed to be. Lynn is the most pathetic WR of his time in the Hall of Fame. He played 9 seasons and couldnt rack up more than 5500 yards receiving… Awesome. Lynn is the Drazen Petrovich of the NFL Hall of Fame, he got in because the voters are morons. This is the Hall of Fame, not the Hall of Good Teammates.
Hobbes2dof the 49ers message board had this to add:
Just for fun here is a ratio of TD’s per catch for some WR’s when compared to Swann:Swann: Averaged a TD every 6.6 catches in 115 games.Stallworth: Averaged a TD every 8.5 catches in 165 games.
Rice: Averaged a TD every 7.9 catches in 303 games
Carter: Averaged a TD every 8.5 catches in 234 games.
Owens: Averages a TD every 6.8 catches through 169 games.
Harrison: averages a TD every 8.5 catches through 175 games.
Moss: averages a TD every 6.4 catches through 149 games.
Brown: averaged a TD every 10.9 catches in 255 games.
Largent: averaged a TD every 8.2 catches in 200 games.
Hutson: averaged a TD every 4.9 catches in 116 games.
Maynard: averaged a TD every 7.2 catches in 186 games.
Reed: averaged a TD every 10.9 catches in 227 games.
Alworth: averaged a TD every 6.4 catches in 136 games.
Warfield: averaged a TD every 5 catches in 157 games.
So while looking at this cumulative stats we know that Swann isn’t in the top 50, but obviously that is deceiving based on how often he scored when he did touch the ball. Now tell me he’s not HOF worthy. The only guys with a better ratio are Lance Alworth, Paul Warfield, Don Hutsonand Randy Moss.
Yea, thats all well and good, but when the guy averages under 40 catches a season, that TD to catch ratio becomes less of a selling point. I mean, 40 catches, how hard is that? Less than 4 per game… So what you’re trying to sell me is that he got “quality” catches instead of “quantity“. Well, if we were at a bar talking about chicks, this may fit into the equation, but since were talking about football here, quantity is extremely important.
Coming up huge in the superbowl isnt all that great when your overall career was luke-warm. Yea, it’s the superbowl, but when it boils down to it, thats just one fucking game (be it a big one). Desmond Howard and Dexter Jackson are superbowl MVP’s too, should they be put in the hall? Joseph Addai had 10 catches in the last superbowl, thats like over 1/4th of Swann’s average per year, should he be a lock?
Hobbes also had this to add:
Swann was a dominating player, when it mattered most in the postseason and Super Bowl. And even in the regular season as evidenced by him leading the league in TD’s his first year as a starter in 1975.
You bring up the fact that he led the league in TD’s his first year as a starter as evidence that he was a “dominant” player. What you left out was that was the only year he ever led the league in ANYTHING. The guy was a 3 time probowler, that is pathetic alone for a HoF’er. Those three times was also the ONLY time he ever came into the top 10 in receiving categories.
So, lets add this up. You have a guy who played for 9 years right? 3 of those years he came in the top 10 for receiving stats. That would mean that for 2/3rds of Lynn Swann’s career, he was not even the 10th best receiver in the league. How can there be a case for a guy that for 66% of his career he was not even close to being one of the greatest of his time? Answer: Cumulative stats. Wait a minute… He sucks in that department too…
Swan was an above average, to good WR. I’ll give him that… Hall of Famer? No chance in hell.
