By Lenny Moon. The Pro Football Hall of Fame is slated to install the Black college Football Hall of Fame wing within its confines in Canton, OH later this year. It stands to reason that a large chunk of the NFL’s legacy has been contributed by proteges of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

A breakdown of PFHOF members of HBCU decent shows us that 29 players have such a pedigree, with Jackson State’s Robert “Dr Doom” Brazile becoming the most recent in 2018. The former Houston Oilers star became the third linebacker to enter the hall and the fourth JSU Tiger to be enshrined. Collectively, there are 17 defensive and 12 offensive players that comprise this assembly of HBCU representatives in the PFHOF (see below).

OFFENSE:
Running Backs [2]
Leroy Kelley(’94)……………..Morgan State [1960-63]……….…Cleveland Browns
Walter Payton(’93)………….Jackson State [1971-74]….…….…Chicago Bears

Receivers [5]
Bob Hayes(’09)……………….Florida A&M [1960-63]……….……Dallas Cowboys
Charlie Joiner(’96)………….Grambling State [1965-68]….……Houston/San Diego
Jerry Rice(’10)………………..Miss Valley St [1981-84]….……….San Francisco/Oakland
Shannon Sharpe(’11)………Savannah State[1986-89]………..Denver/Baltimore
John Stallworth(’02)……….Alabama A&M[1970-73]………….Pittsburgh Steelers

Offensive Linemen [5]
Roosevelt Brown(’75)……Morgan State [1949-52]…………….New York Giants
Larry Little(’93)……………..Bethune Cookman [1963-66]…….Miami Dolphins
Art Shell(’89)…………………Md Eastern Shore [1964-67]……..Oakland Raiders
Jackie Slater(’01)…………..Jackson State [1972-75]…………….LA/St Louis Rams
Rayfield Wright(’06)……..Ft Valley State [1963-66]……………Dallas Cowboys

DEFENSE:
Defensive Linemen [8]
Elvin Bethea(’03)…………..N Carolina A&T [1964-67]………….Houston Oilers
Buck Buchanan(’90)………Grambling State [1959-62]………..Kansas City Chiefs
Willie Davis(’81)……………Grambling State [1952-55]…….…..Green Bay Packers
Richard Dent(’11)…………Tennessee State [1979-82]….……..Chicago Bears
Len Ford(’76)…………………..Morgan State [1944]………………..Cleveland Browns
Claude Humphrey(’16)……Tennessee State [1964-67]……….Atlanta Falcons
Deacon Jones(’80)…….…….Miss Valley.SC St [1960]……………LA Rams
Michael Strahan(’14)………Texas Southern [1989-92]…………New York Giants

Linebackers [3]
Robert Brazile(’18)………….Jackson State [1971-74]……………Houston Oilers
Harry Carson(’06)……………SC State [1972-75]……………………New York Giants
Willie Lanier(’86)…………….Morgan State [1963-66]…………..Kansas City Chiefs

Secondary [6]
Lem Barney(’92)……………..Jackson State [1963-66]…………..Detroit Lions
Mel Blount(’89)………………Southern A&M [1966-69].………..Pittsburgh Steelers
Willie Brown(’84)……………Grambling State [1959-62]….……Oakland Raiders
Kenny Houston(’86)……….Prairie View A&M [1963-66]……..Houston/Wash
Emmitt Thomas(’08)………Bishop [1963-66]………………………Kansas City Chiefs
Aeneas Williams(’14)……..Southern A&M [1989-90]…………St Louis/Arizona

We’ll highlight each of the aforementioned segments of these former great HBCU gridders that have gone on to immortality and the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

NEXT WEEK:
Running Backs

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Recently inducted Pro Football Hall of Fame member Robert “Dr Doom” Brazile (Class of 2018) sat down with veteran sports broadcaster Lenny Moon about his “not so smooth journey” to procure that Gold Jacket along with the Bust (symbolic of his Hall of Fame status). This conversation transpired just hours prior to Brazile being officially inducted into immortality as a member of the 2018 Pro Football Hall of Fame class. Other members include Bobby Bethard, Jerry Kramer, Ray Lewis, Terrell Owens, Brian Urlacher, Brian Dawkins and Randy Moss.
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Operation Knockout on Saturday, August 18, 2018 at 3-3130 Long Street Rd, Fort Bragg, NC. Meet and Greet The Legendary Roy Jones Jr. and also at ringside will be James "Lights Out" Toney. Fighters include: Jonhnathan Foreman, Big Buddy Tesstling, Dijon "2Slick" Cissel, Jacob Flores, Luis Acosta, Edvis "Hands on Deck" Galloway. Brought to you by Force 7 Promotions and Trueheart Drrew Productions. Tickets Available at www.eventbrite.com

Two Time Heavyweight Champion George Foreman live at the Boise Convention Centre at the Grove in Boise, Idaho to receive a Idaho Humanitarian award celebrating 35 years serving the youth, and celebrating his 5oth anniversary of winning the gold medal in Mexico City. Friday, October 12, 2018 at 7:00 pm. For tickets, call 833-WON-GOLD / 833-966-4653 or go online: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3577554. Boise Convention Centre is located at 850 W. Front St. Boise, ID 83702. Be sure to come out and meet 2 Time Heavyweight Champion, Mr. George Foreman. For more information about George Foreman and the George Foreman Youth Center, visit www.GeorgeForeman.com.

Pro Football Hall of Fame member Michael Strahan talks with veteran sports broadcaster Lenny Moon about his college football playing days while a student-athlete at Texas Southern University in Houston, Tx. Strahan would go on to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014 after spending his entire NFL career with the New York Giants. Moon was on the TSU football broadcasting team during Strahan's development into a star not only in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, but all of college football specializing in pressuring the quarterback.

James Shack Harris talks with veteran sports broadcaster Lenny Moon about his struggle to overcome the stereotype and become the first regular starting Black signal caller in the NFL. Harris would go on to become the first Black QB to earn All-Pro status and embellish that feat by being the first Black quarterback to walk away with the NFL Pro Bowl MVP award.

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Don Chaney, a star on the 1968 University of Houston basketball team, talks with veteran sports broadcaster Lenny Moon about his team's epic battle against UCLA in 1968. The two teams were #1 (UCLA) and #2 (Houston) in the country and were led by the college game's premeir titans in the Bruins Lew Alcondor (aka Kareem Jabbar) and the Cougars Elvin Hayes. The contest was played before the largest crowd to witness a basketball game in America at that time with well over 50,000 in attendance. UCLA was riding the crest of a 47-game winning streak that ended that night of January 20, 1968 in the game entitled "Game of the Century". The Cougars remined undefeated that season until they met the Bruins a second time in the NCAA Tournament, Houston would win the Dome contest by the score of 71-69 with Hayes leading the way with a game-high 44 points. This paved the way for the modern "March Madness" television coverage.

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