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

[Bucklion]

Cris Carter a finalist for Pro Football Hall of Fame

Should make it this year...they're saving the first ballot option for Rice next year, though I suppose they could make him wait until Rice gets in, but since they put Irvin in I doubt that will happen.

Sadly, it looks as though Randy Gradishar's chances have probably expired, which is really too bad because he deserves it.

 

[Buckskin86]

Carter hopes to join Hall on second try
By JUDD ZULGAD, Star Tribune

Last update: January 8, 2009

Carter should be there. During his career it was always just he & Rice mentioned as greatest. He could make the accrobatic play but it was ? read more the consistent catch that made him so good. Every week he'd make that sideline catch. Remember that sideline catch? I didn't realize what a special play that was until he left the game and the Vikings now don't even appear to use that play. When was the last time you saw a Viking fall out of bounds to catch a sideline pass? Not since 2001! To Carter it was so routine!

Cris Carter's failure to earn a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 2008 surprised some. But the former Vikings receiver didn't include himself in that group.

"I was disappointed I didn't get in," Carter said Wednesday. "But it wasn't the end of the world. I didn't think I would get in on the first ballot. Look at all the great players who didn't get in [on the first ballot]. I think it's a little conceited to think that way. I didn't think I was a first-ballot Hall of Famer, and I never thought I was a Hall of Famer. I just played the game, and they added up all the numbers at the end."

The numbers were impressive. Carter, who played 12 of 16 NFL seasons with the Vikings (1990 to 2001), is among the NFL's all-time leaders in catches (1,101) and touchdown receptions (130). As he was last year, Carter is among the 15 finalists for the Hall of Fame. Voting will take place in Tampa, Fla., on Jan. 31, a day before the Super Bowl, and between four and seven candidates will be selected.

"Last year it was my first time, and it was kind of new to me," said Carter, an NFL analyst for ESPN. "I made up my mind that I wasn't going to campaign, I wasn't going to try to call people to sway votes. I was just going to sit back and let the process take care of itself. I have respect for the Hall of Fame and have respect for the people who are voting people in. I didn't think there was anything I could do to make the numbers better because that's what they are looking at. So I'm not going to do anything different this time."

Carter hopes to join Hall on second try

 

[Buckskin86]

Carter hoping for Hall call
By Staff Report
Friday, January 30, 2009

Middletown's Cris Carter is hoping to get the call.

Carter is among 17 finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2009. The new class will be announced at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31 in Tampa, Fla., site of Super Bowl XLIII.

Carter, 43, was a surprise omission from last year's class in his first year of eligibility.

Carter spent 16 seasons in the NFL for three different teams (Philadelphia, Minnesota and Miami). He ranks second on the NFL's all-time list in total receptions (1,101) and receiving touchdowns (130).

A member of the NFL's All-Decade Team of the 1990s, Carter was selected to play in eight Pro Bowls (1993-2000 seasons).

Before he starred in the NFL, Carter was a standout at Ohio State University and Middletown High School.

A minimum of four and a maximum of seven finalists can be chosen for the Class of 2009. To be elected, a finalist must receive 80 percent of the 44 votes from the Hall's Board of Selectors.

Carter hoping for Hall call

 

[Jake]

Cris Carter, a Buckeye from my generation.

I remember being disappointed when the 15-1 Vikes lost the NFC championship, and he missed his shot at a ring.

I sure hope he gets the call this year.

 

[BB73]

official.site

Buckeye Blog Post: Numbers Make Hall of Fame Case for Carter

Former Buckeye All-American up for 2009 induction to Pro Football HOF

Cris Carter

NFL Wide Receiver (1987-89 Phi., 19990-01 Minn., '02 Mia.)
Ohio State (1984-86)
Pro Football Hall of Fame finalist (bio):
- No. 3 all-time in career receptions (1,101)
- No. 4 in career touchdowns catches (130)
- Seventh all-time in receiving yards (13,899)
- Eight Pro-Bowl selections
- Former single-season receptions record (122 in 1994 and ?95)
- 1999 NFL Walter Payton Man of the Year award winner

Those are just some of former Buckeye Cris Carter's credentials as he awaits his fate at possible enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which will be announced tomorrow in Tampa, Fla. - home to Super Bowl XLIII.

Carter, now working as an analyst for ESPN, is in his second year of eligibility for enshrinement. He is one of a pool of 17 finalists that also includes fellow stars of his era in Bruce Smith, Rod Woodson, Andre Reed, Shannon Sharpe and the late Derrick Thomas.

Similar numbers have put Carter's pro football peers and predecessors at the quarterback and running back positions in the HOF upon their first year of eligibility (five years after retirement).

Walter Payton ranks No. 4 all-time in rushing TDs and was a first-ballot
hall of famer. Jim Brown is eighth overall in rushing yardage and, of course, he was enshrined in his first year of eligibility. Both legendary running backs stood as the career leaders in rushing yardage upon retirement.

John Elway is No. 3 in career pass completions and landed in Canton in his first year. Payton Manning, a three-time NFL MVP, currently holds the No. 4 spot in career TD passes and No. 8 in yardage. Manning?s bust is more than likely already being constructed for placement in the hall.
But at this time last year, Carter's name was not called even though the company he keeps with his career numbers is a "Who's Who" of pro football's greatest pass catchers.

Only Jerry Rice (1,549 receptions) and Marvin Harrison (currently at 1,102) have snared more passes. Rice assumed the standard for the modern-day receiver in the late 1980s and carried through to 2004. Like Brown and Payton, he is a shoe-in first-ballot HOFer in 2010. Harrison?s ledger speaks for itself as the main target for Manning for the last decade with the Colts.

Carter, a member of the NFL's All-Decade Team of the 1990s, trails only Rice (197) and two current NFL stars - Terrell Owens (139) and Randy Moss (135) - in scoring grabs.

Carter's repeat 122-catch campaigns put him as the only NFL player to rank in the Top 5 in the single-season reception list as well.

Although one my argue Carter's candidacy lacks one major component - a Super Bowl ring, what is most impressive is what he accomplished in a career that lacked cohesion with a consistent starter at quarterback.

Rice benefited from hall of famers Joe Montana and Steve Young for nearly all his time in San Francisco and Pro-Bowler Rich Gannon with Oakland. Harrison has spent all but two seasons of his career with Manning. On the other hand, Carter experienced 11 different quarterbacks that started games during his 12 years in Minnesota.

After three seasons pulling down lofty spirals from Randall Cunningham in Philadelphia from 1987-89, Carter was let go by then-Eagles head coach Buddy Ryan for what ESPN's Chris Berman has made famous the phase, "All he does is catch touchdowns."

Despite the signal-caller carousel in the Twin Cities, Carter totaled 1,004 receptions, 12,383 yards and 110 TDs. He amassed those numbers working with names that span the spectrum of NFL QBs.

Carter actually started his time in Minnesota catching passes from Gannon, then with Wade Wilson, Sean Salisbury and Jim McMahon before eventual HOFer Warren Moon stepped in for Carter?s best back-to-back seasons in 1994-95. All the Moon-to-Carter connection did was total 244 completions in those two years, at the time the most in consecutive seasons.

After a bridge period with Brad Johnson, Cunningham entered for a second tour with Carter from 1997-99 and combined with fellow former Buckeye Robert Smith for a record-setting 15-1 season with the Vikings in 1998.

Only a missed field goal by veteran place kicker Morten Andersen in the NFC Championship game vs. Atlanta denied Carter an appearance in Super Bowl XXXIII.

That season, Carter and Cunningham, along with Smith and a young Randy Moss lit up scoreboards across the league with an NFL-best 556 points, an average of almost 35 per game.

From there, Carter flagged down passes from the likes of veteran journeyman Jeff George to rookie Daunte Culpepper with a sprinkle of Spurgeon Wynn and Todd Bouman for spot starts in between.

Regardless of the names that targeted Carter as he ran his precise routes and showed off some of the best hands the game has seen, the numbers tell the story. This former Buckeye belongs in the hall of fame and there is little doubt he will be inducted in the future.
Hopefully, it is the near future - as in tomorrow.

Upon possible arrival in Canton in August, perhaps Carter can assist in making room for Eddie George (right), who is eligible for enshrinement in 2010.

~ blogged by Pat Kindig
OhioStateBuckeyes.com

 

[Bucklion]

Cris Carter, a Buckeye from my generation.

I remember being disappointed when the 15-1 Vikes lost the NFC championship, and he missed his shot at a ring.

I sure hope he gets the call this year.

That might have been the most painful and ridiculous loss in playoff history. Gary Anderson missed his only FG all season in the championship game, and a clearly mediocre Atlanta team went on to get demolished. What could have been with that offense, which set the NFL record for points in a season at the time. Robbed Carter and the rest something awful.

 

[Buckskin86]

Former Vikings Cris Carter, Randall McDaniel, John Randle to find out about Hall of Fame today
Three former Vikings will find out today if they are hall of famers
By Sean Jensen
[email protected]
Posted: 01/30/2009

Carter had his emotions in check until he arrived in Tampa earlier in the week.

"You're anxious, and you're definitely nervous," Carter said. "I haven't thought too much about it before. Then, when you get here, people are constantly reminding you, so it's hard to really avoid."

Originally a fourth-round pick of the Philadelphia Eagles, Carter was released by then-coach Buddy Ryan because of off-field issues. Vikings coach Jerry Burns gave Carter a second chance in Minnesota, and the receiver established himself as one of the greatest in NFL history. He finished his career No. 2 behind only Jerry Rice in receptions and touchdowns among receivers.

"I never had any dreams of being a hall of famer," Carter said. "It's overwhelming. It's hard to believe. It's almost like you have an out-of-body experience.

"But you know how hard you worked, and you know the pain and the sacrifice of that, and you have such great memories of playing."

Carter said it has been exciting because of the inevitable "build-up" of Super Bowl week. There's media day, then a big speech by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, the Hall of Fame announcement, and the game on Sunday.

http://www.twincities.com/ci_11594933

 

[BB73]

That might have been the most painful and ridiculous loss in playoff history. Gary Anderson missed his only FG all season in the championship game, and a clearly mediocre Atlanta team went on to get demolished. What could have been with that offense, which set the NFL record for points in a season at the time. Robbed Carter and the rest something awful.

You're correct, and the blogger on the official site (the article I quoted earlier) had it wrong. Gary Anderson missed the FG that would have clinched the game in regulation. After a TD in the 2-minute drill tied the game, it was Morten Andersen that kicked the game-winner in OT for Atlanta.

 

[Buckeye Nut]

Press Conference on NFL Network just announced the 2009 HOF Class:

Bob Hayes
Randall McDaniel
Derrick Thomas
Bruce Smith
Ralph Wilson Jr.
Rod Woodson

Unfortunately Cris will have to wait at least another year.

 

[buckeyes_rock]

Press Conference on NFL Network just announced the 2009 HOF Class:

Bob Hayes
Randall McDaniel
Derrick Thomas
Bruce Smith
Ralph Wilson Jr.
Rod Woodson

Unfortunately Cris will have to wait at least another year.

Man, that's just wrong. I can't believe he didn't get in again!

You got ripped Cris!

 

[Thump]

Can't say I feel Carter belongs in before any listed above except for Derrick Thomas.

Also don't forget that Carter didn't have the best reputation with writers and other players for awhile with his brash and cocky attitude.

Still shouldn't take away from his achievements on the field.

 

[buckeyefool]

Can't say I feel Carter belongs in before any listed above except for Derrick Thomas.

Also don't forget that Carter didn't have the best reputation with writers and other players for awhile with his brash and cocky attitude.

Still shouldn't take away from his achievements on the field.

I have always hated when I hear this as an argument for any of the halls. Just because a player doesn't kiss the medias ass doesn't mean that he shouldn't get in the hall. I would be much happier in the sports writers had no say in who got in the hall

 

[Buckeye Nut]

Can't say I feel Carter belongs in before any listed above except for Derrick Thomas.

Also don't forget that Carter didn't have the best reputation with writers and other players for awhile with his brash and cocky attitude.

Still shouldn't take away from his achievements on the field.

I never saw Bob Hayes play except for watching NFL Films. Do you think Hayes was a better receiver than Carter? I know Hayes was known for his great speed, but to me speed is only the third most important thing when looking at what makes a great receiver. I'm sure that wasn't the only aspect of his game that was great and I admit I am ignorant on the subject of Bob Hayes, it's just speed seemed to be the most common adjective used when describing Hayes. I think you might be right about Carter's relationship with the media hurting him.

 

[Thump]

I never saw Bob Hayes play except for watching NFL Films. Do you think Hayes was a better receiver than Carter? I know Hayes was known for his great speed, but to me speed is only the third most important thing when looking at what makes a great receiver. I'm sure that wasn't the only aspect of his game that was great and I admit I am ignorant on the subject of Bob Hayes, it's just speed seemed to be the most common adjective used when describing Hayes. I think you might be right about Carter's relationship with the media hurting him.

The guy averaged over 20 yards a catch for his career.

This article actually does a very good job describing Hayes.

Sal Paolantonio makes the case for Bob Hayes - ESPN

 

[ShakerBuck]

Can't say I feel Carter belongs in before any listed above except for Derrick Thomas.

Chris being selected wouldn't have taken anybody else's spot, they are allowed to vote in up to 7 in each class, and only 6 got voted in.

This is f*ing ridiculous, his resume speaks for itself. 1100+ catches 130 TDs 8 pro bowls!!!