WR Cris Carter (All B1G, All-American, 8x Pro Bowler, 3x All Pro, NFL HOF)

[MililaniBuckeye]

About fucking time...never should have had to wait this long.

 

[buckeyes_rock]

Very deserving...about time...way to go!

 

[BayBuck]

C'mon Hall of Fame!
:osu:

 

[maximumblitz]

Awesome.

 

[Buckskin86]

CC on ESPN radio- Mike and Mike 2 3 13

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nBaoHkWkAY"]Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2013 Announcement - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uVIvfLo_1o"]Cris Carter -- Emotional Reaction After Getting Into The Class of 2013 NFL Hall of Fame - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErLbav2Dd04"]Cris Carter's Dreams Come True - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Jake]

Just listened to CC being interviewed live on Mike and Mike (they're doing a SB Sunday show). His son is going to do his introduction.

I think I especially like seeing CC get in because he was a Buckeye when I was in school. Didn't know him, but seemed to cross paths with him often to/from class. He was BMOC, and now he's in the HOF.

:)

 

[Bestbuck36]

As a Middletown Middie and Buckeye from birth, we are all extremely happy to see Cris get his just dues this weekend. Congratulations on a long overdue selection!!

 

[Buckskin86]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwMtXSZO5A0"]Cris Carter Interview on The Buckeye Show - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Buckskin86]

Cris Carter thanks Vikings
Updated: February 14, 2013
Associated Press

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Walking the corridors of Minnesota Vikings headquarters for the first time since he was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the memories came flooding back for Cris Carter.

He came to Minnesota in 1990 with drinking and drug problems weighing him down, having been kicked to the curb by Philadelphia despite scoring 11 touchdowns the previous season.

The Vikings gave him some discipline and direction, without which he doesn't believe he would have come close to putting together a career worthy of the Hall.

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Carter Personally what they did for my life, that changed my life. Besides my mother, there's a lot of people that helped me out but there's not a lot of people that can say that I wouldn't have made the Hall without their involvement. But I can stand here today as a man to tell you if you wouldn't have helped me that day when I came here, that second week in September, I wouldn't have made it.
? -- Cris Carter

As he recounted his experiences in Minnesota, he spotted former Vikings part owner Wheelock Whitney in the crowd and recounted how Whitney and former team counselor Betty Triligi helped him overcome alcohol and cocaine issues that essentially got him booted out of Philly.

"Personally, what they did for my life, that changed my life," Carter said on Thursday. "Besides my mother, there's a lot of people that helped me out but there's not a lot of people that can say that I wouldn't have made the Hall without their involvement. But I can stand here today as a man to tell you if you wouldn't have helped me that day when I came here, that second week in September, I wouldn't have made it."

Carter, an ESPN analyst, choked up several times while he reminisced about his time with the Vikings, who claimed him on waivers after Philadelphia cut him.

He said he had stopped using cocaine by then but was still abusing alcohol, and recalled the exact day -- Sept. 19, 1990, -- when Triligi challenged him to go a week without drinking.

"I haven't had a drink since then," Carter said. "I was just trying to make it through the week to survive really. That's what I was really trying to do, just make it through one week and then eventually after surviving, I could feel my body starting to change and I could feel my ability starting to really, I could be as good as I really wanted to be. I upped my conditioning, I dropped my body weight, and then the rest was history."

By his third season with the Vikings, Carter started to emerge as one of the best receivers in the game. He finished his career with 1,101 catches for 13,899 yards and 130 touchdowns in 16 seasons.

At the time of his retirement, most of his statistics were second on the career lists to Jerry Rice, but it took him five tries to finally gain entrance to the Hall.

"It's the most frustrating thing for people to tell you you're a Hall of Famer but you don't have it," Carter said. "To finally get in, man it's really, really amazing."

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http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8...-cris-carter-thanks-minnesota-vikings-support

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLiwA4Iz6j0"]Cris Carter gets emotional about Hall of Fame - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Buckskin86]

Ex-Viking Cris Carter: I wish I had gotten clean with Philadelphia Eagles
By Bob Sansevere
[email protected]
Posted: 02/15/2013

Thursday February 14, 2013. (Pioneer Press: Richard Marshall)
Vikings wide receiver Cris Carter acknowledges the applause of fans on Dec. 23, 2001, as Minnesota's game against the Jacksonville Jaguars winds down. It was Carter's final game in the Metrodome.

I wanted to grow up to be a professional athlete. I thought I'd be a basketball player.

I started practicing my autograph when I was in the seventh grade. I thought I'd be famous one day, and I thought I'd be an athlete.

If I can go back in time, I'd probably go right before Buddy Ryan cut me, to change it. I would do exactly what I did with the Vikings (get clean, which would have meant) I never would have come to the Vikings.

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http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_22599928/ex-viking-cris-carter-i-wish-i-had

 

[Buckskin86]

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Football field to bear Cris Carter?s name
By Rick McCrabb
Staff Writer

MIDDLETOWN ?

After years, even decades of not recognizing its greatest athletes, Middletown has approved the naming of its high school football field after its next hall of famer.

The field at Barnitz Stadium, where Cris Carter, a 1984 MHS graduate, starred throughout his high school career and where he drew the attention of college scouts, will be named the Cris Carter Community Field sometime this year. The Middletown City Schools Board of Education approved the proposal by a 3-to-1 vote at its meeting Monday night.

Katie McNeil voted against the proposal and Marcia Andrew, board president, didn?t attend the meeting. McNeil was unavailable for comment Tuesday.

Carter will be in Middletown for several ceremonies on May 6-7, but the official naming of the field will be done later this year, said Mark Kerns, a Middletown teacher who passionately proposed the idea to the school board.

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http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/news/local/football-field-to-bear-cris-carters-name/nXT57/

 

[Buckskin86]

Pro Football Hall of Fame: Middletown to honor native son Cris Carter
By Tim May
The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday May 7, 2013

In his journey first to Ohio State, then to the NFL and ultimately the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Cris Carter has seldom been able to return to where it started: Middletown, Ohio.But one of the great receivers in history will be back there today, to be honored as part of his six-month trip toward Canton.

?It?s a little different, because the last 25 years I haven?t really been in my hometown,? Carter said yesterday. ?So to actually go back, I don?t have a lot of family there, but I do have my friends and buddies I played ball with, and I think it?s nice for them.

?It?s kind of hard for them to understand the whole Hall of Fame thing, but it?s nice for them to be honored as a hometown and as a high school by the Hall of Fame.?

Carter?s return is part of a program called ?Hometown Hall of Famers,? sponsored by Allstate Insurance. The ceremony will take place at Middletown High School at 1 p.m., with Carter?s older brother Butch, a former NBA player and coach, presenting him with a plaque of recognition to be displayed at the school.

?No one makes it to the Hall of Fame without a great deal of help and assistance along the way, especially in those formative years in middle school and high school when a kid?s career can just go astray real easy,? Cris Carter said.

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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/con...ddletown-to-honor-native-son-cris-carter.html

Cris Carter Q&A: If not for football ... maybe accounting?
May 6, 2013

Cris Carter will get his due as one of the most prolific receivers in NFL history with his upcoming Hall of Fame induction. Before that, though, he is set to be honored Tuesday at Middletown (Ohio) High School, where he starred in football and basketball, as part of a program put on by the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Allstate. The Star Tribune?s Michael Rand caught up with Carter on a number of subjects:

Q Bud Grant received a similar honor last week for his high school prowess, and he said he could recall every game he played in high school. Is it the same for you in terms of memories?

A I?m at a little disadvantage because I played 16 years in the NFL, but I do have great memories from high school. I did read that about Coach Grant, and I do remember a lot of my high school football games, especially my senior year.

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http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikings/206371321.html?refer=y

Middletown's Cris Carter honored before Reds-Braves game
Pro Football Hall of Fame electee shows nice form with ceremonial first pitch
May 6, 2013
Written by
John Erardi

Growing up at 10 and 11 in Middletown in 1975-76, one was going to hear about baseball, no matter how good one was at football and basketball.

Cris Carter, newly elected Pro Football Hall of Famer (sounds good as a descriptive, doesn?t it?), did more than hear about baseball; he sought it out.

"I grew up as a Cincinnati Reds fans, listening on the radio as I was going to bed, listening to Marty Brennaman and Joe Nuxhall, 700 on the AM dial -- WLW," recalled a smiling Carter, in Cincinnati Monday night to throw out the ceremonial first pitch to older brother, Butch, before the Reds' 7-4 loss to the Braves at Great American Ball Park.

"That was as big a fan of baseball fan as I?ve ever been, when I was 10," said Cris, 47, who will be inducted into Canton in August. "How could I not be? They were the best, the Big Red Machine. My hometown team was a great team."

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http://news.cincinnati.com/article/...3/Cris-Carter-honored-before-Reds-Braves-game

 

[Buckskin86]

Erardi: Cris Carter honored by Middletown High School
Pep assembly held; Pro Football Hall of Fame electee has field named for him
May 7, 2013
Written by
John Erardi

Retired NBA player and coach Butch Carter, left, helps his brother, NFL Hall of Fame electee Cris Carter, unveil a plaque in his honor during a pep assembly Tuesday at Middletown High School. Carter, elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in February, celebrated the election with his alma mater. The school will name its football field in Cris' honor.
The Enquirer/Amanda Davidson

MIDDLETOWN ? Five blocks from where he grew up, Cris Carter Field at Barnitz Stadium was dedicated on a warm, sea-blue sky of a day in a ceremony Tuesday afternoon that left many of the 250 people wondering how in the world Canton was going to top this.

The best moment of all ? besides the former Middies' and Ohio State star Carter saying that his mother, Joyce, belonged in a Mother's Hall of Fame somewhere ? is when a call went out for "anybody who coached or played with Cris to come up here," and a dozen men emerged in various states of work dress to join Carter on stage.

Among them were Sean Bell and Dwight Smith, who played on a youth team for eight-year-olds with Carter, and went on to play football with him at Ohio State.

"Something like that doesn't happen in too many communities," said Carter, who will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August. "Man, this is a great place to grow up, a great place to be an athlete."

If not for his mother, Carter might have grown up someplace else.

"I knew my kids were athletes," said Joyce, who moved the family here from Troy when Cris was seven. "I did my research. It was going to be either here, or Springfield, and I chose Middletown."

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http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130507/COL19/305070111

Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Carter?s speech touches hometown crowd
By Jay Morrison
Staff Writer

MIDDLETOWN ?

Nearly 800 people filled the Manor House in Mason on Tuesday to hear Cris Carter deliver the keynote speech at the 24th annual Pigskin Roundball Spectacular, but no one was more rapt with attention than Dustin Carter.

A former resident of Middletown and Hillsboro High School grad who lost his arms and legs to a skin-eating disease, Dustin made history in 2008 when he not only qualified for the state wrestling tournament, but won a match.

Calling it the ?greatest day of my life to this day,? Dustin often relives the moment when the referee raised his hand and the crowd of more than 13,000 roared with a standing ovation every time he is asked to speak to a group of youngsters about overcoming adversity.

?I?m still kind of new to the speaking circuit, so I?m really excited to hear (Cris) talk,? Dustin said. ?When you get up to speak, you kind of just go with how your heart is feeling. So it will be cool to see where?s he?s floating at and how he handles it.?

The theme of Cris? speech was ?I want you to know,? as he mostly stayed away from the superlatives of his playing days at Middletown High School, Ohio State and in the NFL with the Minnesota Vikings and Philadlephia Eagles. He instead talked about the people who helped carry him to Pro Football Hall of Fame, where he will be enshrined in August.

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http://www.middletownjournal.com/ne.../carters-speech-touches-hometown-crowd/nXkG2/

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_aV9niel8"]Cris Carter day in Middletwon, Ohio - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8FBDyiR2eU"]CRIS CARTER speaks to Middletown students - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ulukinatme]

Thought this was a cool pic. Aside from naming the HS field after him and creating a plaque, theres now a sign with his name on it when you enter Middletown:

Another article:
http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/con...ddletown-to-honor-native-son-cris-carter.html

 

[Buckskin86]

Cris Carter: Mike Brown took me off Bengals? draft board, too
Posted by Michael David Smith on July 3, 2013

Former Minnesota Vikings receiver Carter cries after being named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame at the 2013 Class of Enshrinement show in New Orleans Reuters

Bengals owner Mike Brown got some attention around the NFL this week when he said that he took Aaron Hernandez off the Bengals? draft board in 2010 because of concerns about Hernandez?s character. It turns out that many years earlier, Brown also took a future Hall of Famer off the Bengals? draft board because of character concerns.

Cris Carter, the receiver who was voted into the Hall of Fame this year, said today on ESPN that Brown has told him that the Bengals decided not to draft Carter because they were worried that he wouldn?t be able to stay out of trouble off the field.

?Coming out of college from Ohio State, I was a first-team All-American,? Carter said. ?Mike Brown, I?ve talked to him in the last several years. He took me off their list, too. He said he regretted it because I was a local talent and he wished they hadn?t, but he told me, ?Cris, I took you off our board based on the information we had.??

Carter was a great player at Ohio State, but he had a drug problem, and he was also banned by the NCAA for hiring an agent before his senior season. The Eagles took Carter with a fourth-round pick in the 1987 supplemental draft ? a bargain considering his talent, but a risk considering his off-field issues ? and although he played fairly well in his three seasons in Philadelphia, Eagles coach Buddy Ryan ultimately decided Carter?s drug problem was too much to deal with, and Carter was cut.

In the end, Carter got clean and became one of the best receivers in the NFL in Minnesota. But that was only after the team that drafted him let go of him. Which means the Bengals ? who have had more than their share of off-field trouble makers ? were probably wise to take Carter off their draft board.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ke-brown-took-me-off-bengals-draft-board-too/