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[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3554049]1. Barry Bruno (K)[/url]
There can only be one "the best" in their field and it is an honor and reflection of this Hall of Fame that we get to induct perhaps the best and most clutch kicker the league has ever seen- Barry Bruno.
Born Baron Brunitzky on March 3, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois the son of poor Ukrainian immigrants, Brunitzky always dedicated himself to being the best at everything he could. He saw the struggles of his parents and wanted to be someone someday so that he could make their American dream come true. Often dressed in hand-me-downs with the cheapest haircut in class, few expected much of him in spite of his desire. His grades were moderate, his social skills were lacking and the kids thought his parents talked funny.
Then one day, Baron was persuaded to try out for the school's soccer team.
Mostly due to not knowing anything about the game, he was technically abysmal but his coaches took note of the uncanny power of his leg for a teenager. On a particular occasion when attempting to score the goalie easily was able to catch his kick but the force with which it hit his chest was such that the goalie ended up in the nurses office.
Then came football.
Joining the varsity football team as a sophomore initially as a punter, Baron grew tired of the role quickly wanting to help score points. With uncanny intuition he was able to craft his kicks into more accurate lasers rather than just kicking the ball as hard as he could. By the time he was a senior he had broken several national records for length of kicks and quantity. He was able to secure a scholarship to Illinois State College a skip and a beat from home and after a successful collegiate career entered the 1990 draft. The rest is history.
Bruno holds the record for the most successful field goals in league history thereby scoring the most points in league history for a kicker. From a kid with a powerful leg who wanted to score some points to becoming the most prolific kicker in FHFL history, we are proud to welcome Mr. Barry Bruno to the FHFL Hall of Fame!
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 11 (1990)
Retired: 2006 (17 Seasons)
Career Stats: 590/727 Field Goals Made, 81.2%, 69 LNG FGM, 547/551 PAT, 99.3%
Voting: 10/6 (167%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3404578]2. Joe Wonsley (RB)[/url]
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Voting: 8/6 (133%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3644990]3. Kerry Morris (WR)[/url]
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Voting: 7/6 (117%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2431204]4. Bob Gaffney (DE)[/url]
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Voting: 6/6 (100%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2429582&displaytab=stats]5. Wind Spinner (CB)[/url]
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Voting: 6/6 (100%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2009[/size][/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3428739]1. Bob Long (QB)[/url]
In an age where quarterbacks rarely maintain a career passer rating in the seventies, it's no shock why a sixteen-year quarterback who finished his career with a CAREER passer rating above eighty finds himself here in the hall of legends. A two-time Sim Bowl Champion ranked #1 all-time in completions, 5th all-time in passing first downs, 1st all-time in games started and 4th all-time in passing TDs Bob Long was born on April 13th, 1965 to a single mother in Miami Florida. Having an affinity for the game of football from a young age, Long dreamt of becoming a championship-winning quarterback one day with his name among his idols.
Graduating from Alabama College in 1987, Long was picked with the 45th overall pick in the second round by the Milwaukee Marauders which eventually became the San Antonio Silver Hawks, In his very first season, Long managed a passer rating above ninety throwing 22 TDs and only 7 picks. His two Sim-Bowl wins were back-to-back in 1994 and 1995, both seasons in which the San Antonio entered the playoffs as a wildcard. Perhaps one of the most formidable but underrated signal callers to grace the league, we're happy to welcome Mr. Long into the FHFL Phenom Hall of Fame. Congratulations!
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 45 (1987)
Retired: 2003 (16 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 256/256 Games, 5,016/8,286 Passing for 50,358 Yards, 60.5% Completion Rate, 467 Passing Touchdowns, 199 Interceptions
Voting: Received 9/6 Required Votes (150%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2428996]2. Lance Baxter (DE)[/url]
Born on the 12th of September, 1938, a child of the depression era and World War II, Lance Baxter came from a long line of military men and women and would have been slated to do the same had he not had a rebelious streak in him. Always a large but agile child, he got into football in middle school and discovered from his coaches that he was very good at it. Pursuing it into high school and then college, Baxter moved from position to position for most of his school career until finally settling on the position he'd play for the next few decades, Defensive End.
Drafted by what would become the San Francisco Cyclons in the first-ever FHFL draft (1960) Baxter didn't find a team until the 8th round. Most of the players selected before him are not even remembered. In his sixteen seasons, Baxter racked up 162 career sacks along with 31 forced fumbles making him a master of putting pressure on the quarterback. One of the best pass-rushers of all time, Baxter helped the Cyclons accumulate nine-straight division championships and one conference championships. Unfortunately, he found himself on the loosing end of Sim Bowl VII in 1966.
Congratulations to the Cyclons and to Baxter for finally making it among legends!
Drafted: Round 8, Pick 251 (1960)
Retired: 1974 (16 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 203/229 Games, 162 Sacks, 31 Forced Fumbles, 1 Broken Pass, 3 Interceptions, 2 Pick-6's
Voting: Received 6/6 Required Votes (100%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2008[/size][/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3526817]1. Rob Constantine (TE)[/url]
There are tight ends who block and there are tight ends who catch. There are also tight ends who can block AND catch. Then there's Rob E. Constantine. Robert Earl Constantine was born April 25, 1968 in the small town of Morristown, Tennessee as the son of farmers, Robert and his father often would toss the pigskin around in the cornfields which is much more difficult than it sounds. Developing his soon-to-be-infamous skills for catching in traffic and gaining a feel for the ball without seeing it, Rob wanted to be a receiver. As he entered high school and became much more naturally bulky and not very tall, his father convinced him to try out for the high school team as a right tackle where he excelled.
It was actually as a right tackle that Rob Constantine was granted a scholarship to his Alma Matter North Dakota University. Finding North Dakota to be not so different than his home in Tennessee, Constantine grew and flourished in his new environment constantly pushing himself to be better and better. Once his coaches saw that he had a skill for catching the ball as well, they decided to try him as a tight end in his sophomore year and the rest is football history. Breaking school records and helping to bring the national championship home in 1990, his last year, it was not much of a shock that he was taken high in the first round when he entered the FHFL draft.
Being drafted by the Washington Capitolists with a pricey fifth overall pick behind Nolan Creed and Jedemia Clampet, Constantine had a lot to prove as Creed, Clampet and other first round picks had an obvious upside to them. So prove it he did. Capturing 64.13% of his passes in Washington for 7,863 yards with 3,223 of them being after the catch, Constantine, Creed and the rest of that iteration of the Capitolists failed to capture a Sim Bowl title in their time together, but the stats may win them a much bigger prize-- starting with Constantine.
Traded to the Minnesota Tree Dwellers in 1998, Constantine continued to play well until the end of his career with 2,423 more receiving yards in his thirties with his best ever year in 1999 when he received for 1,027 yards. It was with Minnesota that Constantine broke the ten thousand receiving yard barrier, one seldom broken by receivers let alone tight ends. Rob Constantine deserves to be here.
We welcome you to the FHFL Hall of Fame!
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 5 (1989)
Retired: 2002 (14 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 216/218 Games, 1,077 for 1,675 Receiving for 10,752 Yards, 4,095 YAC, 3.8 Career YACA, 75 Long Receiving, 48 Receiving TDs
Voting: Received 9/6 Required Votes (150%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3332689]2. Marquez Dirico (WR)[/url]
We have all finally come to our senses and put this man in the hall of fame where he belongs. It only took four ballots!
Born March 30, 1961 in Muscle Shoals, Alabama to a single mother who raised her two sons, Marquez and Salazar to the best of her ability in a hard world. When asked how he got into the sport of football, Marquez recalled that it was to chase after a girl.
"It was sophomore year and she was the most beautiful girl I'd ever laid eyes on," Dirico recalled when interviewed by SSPN News in 1995. "At the time, I didn't even play hopscotch. Being the stupid horny teenager I was, I figured I'd pick up just enough of the game and be seen on the field just enough by her to get her number. Little did I know that that act of stupidity brought both my career and my wife into my life."
Tragedy struck Dirico and his family in 1979 when a botched home invasion led to the shooting deaths of both his mother Elaine and his brother Salazar leaving Dirico a lost drifting teenager.
"I could have gone down a dark path," Dirico said in the same interview. "There were plenty of opportunities for that. If it wasn't for football and the fact that my mom had wanted to see me drafted to an FHFL team so badly, I doubt I'd be here to give this interview right now."
Dirico was taken fifth overall in the 1983 draft after an explosion in college blowing scouts away consistently and with a fire in his belly every time he walked out onto the field. He did not capture a conference or Sim Bowl title in his time in the league but his numbers speak for themselves - over 13,000 receiving yards, nearly 90 receiving touchdowns, only 22 drops in his entire career and a blistering 5.7 YACA. Whether it was natural talent or a passion to make his mother and brother proud, Marquez Dirico became one of the greatest receivers of all time.
We are proud to welcome Marquez Dirico to the FHFL Hall of Fame!
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 5 (1983)
Retired: 1998 (16 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 195/239 Games, 1,110/1,811 Receving for 13,895 Yards, 61.3% Reception Rate, 6,286 YAC, 5.7 Career YACA, 89 Receiving TDs, 84 Long Receiving
Voting: Received 6/6 Required Votes (100%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2007[/size][/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2428917]1. Yogen Fruz (DE)[/url]
Born October 17, 1937, Yogen Fruz will go down as one of the most devestating defensive players in FHFL history. Born in the city of Live Oak in Florida to a single father, Fruz excelled as a varsity football player helping to bring a string of state and national titles to the school in his four years there. Always standing several feet above his growing peers and always with the strength of a full grown weightlifter, Fruz actually had to learn to be LESS aggressive in his style of play in order to get a scholarship to North Carolina University as part of the class of 1960.
Excelling in college and being drafted in the FHFL's first ever draft the year he graduated, Fruz served all twelve seasons of play as either a member of the Edmonton Mall Rats (now the New Jersey Sharks) or as a free agent for his last year. In his time with the team, Fruz amassed an astonishing, frightening and unbelieveable 165 sacks for the Mall Rats, the second highest number of sacks recorded for a player in league history.
Although he never made it to the big game or won a conference title, Fruz helped bring eight division titltes to the Mall Rats. From his position as a defensive end he was able to create thirty-six forced fumbles becoming a nightmare for anyone he faced on the gridiron. We now welcome him to stand alongside the #1 sacker of all-time, Cortez Times, as an example of what a defense needs to be truly feared.
Fruz passed away of natural causes at the age of 62 in 2000.
Drafted: Round 8, Pick 228 (1960)
Retired: 1971 (12 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 183/183 Games, 165 Sacks, 36 Forced Fumbles, 3 Defended Passes Total, 2 Broken-Up Passes and 1 Interception
Voting: Received 13/6 Required Votes (216%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2573322]2. Ernie Bradshaw (WR)[/url]
Born March 20, 1943 in the city of Washington, PA, the son of a doctor a school teacher, Ernie Bradshaw was always an energetic child but his parents likely had no idea that he would become one of the best receivers in FHFL History. An only child, Bradshaw first began playing football in high school where he originally played running back before he transferred his skills to the wide receiver position before senior year. He had such a good showing in that year's national championship that he was able to attend the College of Georgia on partial scholarship.
Plagued with a series of tumultuous off-the-field issues but getting better with every snap, Bradshaw was still able to become the last person taken in the first round of the 1966 draft, 32 overall, by the Green Bay Tundra who helped him turn his life around.
A part of Fod Fitzgerald Sr.'s astonishing six Sim Bowls in a row and five championships in a row, Bradshaw amassed amazing stats catching the ball for this team and no matter if it was his skill or being in the right place in the right time, it's hard not to end up in the hall of fame when you literally have a championship ring for each finger.
Staying on as the team changed management several times, Bradshaw was never able to move onto the fingers on his other hand but what he'd done already at that point in his career was more than enough. Out of ten seasons, Bradshaw received more than 60% of passes thrown his direction and only ended the season with fewer than one thousand yards once. Nearly reaching 100 total career touchdown receptions (97) before retiring in 1977 due to chronic back injuries, Bradshaw remains the archetype for wide receivers in the FHFL.
Sadly, Bradshaw passed away on the last day in May, 2002 from skin cancer. He spent his last moments surrounded by family and friends. Now we honor him with the gift of one more ring.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 2 (1966)
Retired: 1977 (10 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 28/136 Games, 820/1325 Receiving for 13,439 Yards, 61.9% Completion Rate, 97 Receiving TDs, 4,246 YAC, 5.2 Career YACA
Voting: Received 8/6 Required Votes (133%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2457100]3. Joe Caroll (QB)[/url]
In a development that seemed to take far too long, one of the most dangerous quarterbacks to ever walk on an FHFL field has finally made his way into the Hall of Fame.
Born on January 8, 1941 in Fort Worth, Texas, Joe Carroll was the son of painters who aspired to be a writer much of his life following in their artistic vein. It wasn't until his high school coach took an interest in him due to his natural athleticism in junior year. From the moment he hit the field he was great. He did not have a sports scholarship to attend the University of Philadelphia initially and it nearly broke his parents trying to fund his education. Still wanting to be a writer until he tried out for the team there it was much to his surprise when he discovered he, again, was a natural at it.
Developing him as much as they could before the 1964 draft, the British Columbia Owls took a chance on him taking him second overall. The rest is history. Literally. Two Sim Bowl Championships, seven Sim Bowl appearances (five in a row), seven division titles, and a stat line that we all know you're jealous of-- a passer rating of 91.8! All from the son of a pair of painters.
Carroll retired on the Dallas Cowboys in 1976, one of the most successful players in the history of the game. He was able to pursue his career in writing publishing several science fiction novels that became bestsellers including The Pocket, a fictional account of a quarterback much like Carroll. The book was made into the film Scramble in 1987.
Joe Carroll passed away from complications of heart surgery in 1995. The 8th of January is still known in British Columbia as Joe Carroll day.
It is our honor to posthumous induct one of the best to ever do it into the FHFL Hall of Fame
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 2 (1964)
Retired: 1975 (12 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 143/158 Games, 2,972/4,917 Passing for 37,874 Yards, 60.4% Completion Rate, 245 Touchdowns, 110 Interceptions, 91.8 Career Passer Rating
Voting: Received 6/6 Required Votes (100%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3370060]4. Billy O'Sullivan (QB)[/url]
Once upon a time, the Louisville Leprechauns truly had the luck of the Irish on their side and it came from New Orleans by way of Georgia. Born March 8, 1962 in Atlanta, Georgia to mild mannered and hard working parents, Billy O'Sullivan was the oldest of seven children, a budding athelete even in his youth. His first championship was the Little League World Title which he won in 1972 long before he became the force that now resides in the Phenom Hall of Fame.
Tragedy struck when 18-year-old Billy O'Sullivan's father was killed in a car crash by a drunk driver days before he was to attend Washington State College with a full football scholarship. Billy wanted to stay at home and become the new man of the house and guide his six younger brothers and sisters to adulthood but his mother pushed him into going to college knowing that was what his father would have wanted.
Drafted fourth overall in the 1984 draft by New Orleans, O'Sullivan rounded out the end of an amazing six-year streak of division titles by the REBELS. Being traded to the Leprechauns for tackle Jim Alexander, tight end Phil Brown and a third round pick, it was in Louisville where O'Sullivan became most well known winning four more division titles before retiring in the year 2000. His QBR may not show it, but in his era he was one of the more feared quarterbacks in the league. A rare modern quarterback who surpassed 40,000 yards with a Passer Rating 80 or above, Billy O'Sullivan deserves a hearty welcome to the Hall of Fame!
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 4 (1984)
Retired: 1999 (16 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 218/221 Games, 4,035/6,748 Passing for 44,925 Yards, 59.8% Completion Rate, 279 Touchdowns, 212 Interceptions, 80.3 Career Passer Rating
Voting: Received 6/6 Required Votes (100%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2006[/size][/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2905151]1. Bryan McCloud (RB)[/url]
Time and time again it seems that all it takes is a great offensive line to turn any old running back into a seemingly unstoppable first round draft pick so it isn't easy to get into the hall of fame as a running back. Because the run game seems so much more based on how the offensive line is performing rather than the running back, not to many people would spend a top three draft pick on a running back but that's what the Omaha Blaze (which became the Sim Bowl winning Tampa Bay Venom) did in 1972 when they took McCloud third overall in the 1972 draft.
One of the most dominant running backs to ever grace the field, he only averaged fewer than 4 yards a carry in one season, 1983, in which he was no longer the starter and was only averaging one attempt per game. Besides the twilight of his career, he delivered a season of 1,000 yards or more rushing ten consecutive seasons and broke 1,500 yards rushing five times including his rookie season in which he rushed for 1,681 yards, a feat he was never able to outdo.
During his time for the Blaze/Venom, McCloud won seven division titles and three conference titles. He is a two time Sim Bowl winning running back and still rushed for 4.6 yards a carry during his only Sim Bowl loss in 1975.
Often imitated, but never quite matched or outdone, McCloud serves as the blueprint for what any aspiring running attack could ever hope to accomplish. He is welcome here in the Phenom Hall of Fame.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 3 (1972)
Retired: 1984 (12 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3,070 Rushing Attempts for 15,145 Yards, 4.9 Average Gain Per Rush, 145 Rushing TDs, 80 Long Rushing
Voting: Received 10/6 Required Votes (167%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2573292]2. Dexter Schmarr (DT)[/url]
In the 1960's, the British Columbia Owls went on a since-unmatched run of championship appearences and victories marked by exceptional defensive play an one of the most legendary quarterbacks of all time. The reason why three of that era's defensive linemen have made it into the Hall of Fame before Joe Carroll has is simple: any player who cracks 100 career sacks is amazing. When he's part of the reason your team is synonomous with "conference title game" and "Sim Bowl", you end up in the Hall of Fame.
Born March 1, 1943 as Dyrek Schmarr, the son of two poor Russian immigrants, Schamarr, Schmarr quickly became Americanized in the warm sun of San Jose California where his favorite past-times including sunbathing, picking up chicks, and playing football. Schmarr became a nationally acclaimed defensive playing in high school which propelled him to enough fame to get him selected 42nd overall in the 1966 draft. Little did he know that he was an instrumental cog being installed into what would become a dynasty.
His first season went by quietly enough with no sacks but fair tackling and promise. Then, in his second season, he managed 18 sacks and 4 forced fumbles! From that point on he had at least eight or more sacks on the season every year until he began to decline in 1976 only garnering four sacks from that time until his retirement in 1979. By that time however, he had already accumulated 108 career sacks, 26 forced fumbles, had won a Sim Bowl, had won four conference titles, 7 division titles in a row and had already cememted his resume to be alongside his fellow greats in the FHFL Phenom Hall of Fame.
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 42 (1966)
Retired: 1979 (13 Seasons)
Career Stats: 108 Career Sacks, 26 Forced Fumbles
Voting: Received 8/6 Required Votes (133%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2005[/size][/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2457134]1. Warren Draper (DE)[/url]
During the British Columbia Owls' legendary run in the 1960's a lot of talent came and went, many are in this Hall of Fame and many more probably will end up here before it is all said and done, but if anyone embodied the heart of the team more than the QB himself, it was Warren Draper.
Brown to decently well-off and well-tempered parents in a good neighborhood in Bayonne, New Jersey, Draper's first love ironically enough was actually chess. Considered a child prodigy and a grand-master at the age of sixteen, it wasn't until he tried out for the school football team on a dare to impress a girl (who'd become his future wife, June Draper) that is entire life changed. Discovering natural athleticism and an ability to beat his opponents more his his mind than with his body, Draper initially began playing as an offensive linemen and then found his natural groove on the defensive side of the ball as a Defensive End. No matter if the opposing linemen were bigger than he was or more agile, Draper's uncanny ability to see his opponents moves before they'd even thought of them made him nearly impossible to defend.
The chess scholarships suddenly paled in comparison to the opportunities suddenly opened to him by football. He played for North Dakota University as a part of the class of 1964 and fell to the second round of the 1964 draft as many scouts wondered aloud if Draper was committed to football or if he'd eventually go back to playing chess. Many of those doubters are not in the Hall of Fame.
Starting the year he was drafted until 1969 Draper was a part of the longest streak of Sim Bowl appearances in FHFL history being a part of two winning teams in 1964 and 1966. He remained on the team long enough to see them go back to the title game in 1971 although they did not win and helped them win one last division championship before retiring in 1972. One of the few players to be there in British Columbia from the start of their dynasty until the bitter end across two owners, Draper has earned respect among his peers and the world. We proudly welcome him and his astonishing 131 sack, 37 forced fumble stat line to the FHFL Phenom Hall of Fame!
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 36 (1964)
Retired: 1976 (13 Seasons)
Career Stats: 131 Career Sacks, 37 Forced Fumbles.
Voting: Received 13/7 Required Votes (186%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2432157]2. Jerome Brown (DT)[/url]
If you were a quarterback playing between the years of 1962 and 1972 and found yourself staring across the field at #90 be assured that somewhere, somehow, someway you are going to find yourself looking up at the lights after a spectacular, magnificent, glorious, drive-killing thing we football folk like to call a sack. Born December 12, 1939 on a frigid night in Cleveland, Ohio, Jerome Brown was drafted by the Philadelphia Whiners in 1962 before being traded to the British Columbia Owls in a blockbuster trade in 1964.
"Ever since I was young," Brown explained in his last televised interview before his death in 2005. "All I wanted to do was sack the quarterback."
The Owls went to the Sim Bowl the entire time he was with the Owls from 1965 to 1969 and they won the big one two of those times in 1964 and 1965. In what will probably go down as one of the most stacked and profoundly talented dynasties of all time, Brown spent the rest of his life fondly reminiscing about being a part of the longest streak of Sim Bowl appearances by a team in the history of the game.
"I don't think they'll ever break that one," he chuckled when asked about it by SDPN in 2001. "The game has gotten so fancy now but we set a lot of records back then they probably won't ever touch."
Brown spent his final three seasons on the St. Louis Lions where he accumulated another 27 sacks and three forced fumbles before hanging it up for good. He went on the found the charity the Brown Foundation which benefits children in underprivileged neighborhoods who want to be groomed to become draftable FHFL talent.
Brown passed away quietly in his sleep at age 65 on May 23, 2005 in his home in Cleveland leaving behind a widow, seven children, fifteen grandchildren, a dog and 126 career sacks. Now he will leave behind a much-deserved Hall of Fame Ring.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 3 (1962)
Retired: 1972 (11 Seasons)
Career Stats: 126 Career Sacks, 28 Forced Fumbles.
Voting: Received 12/7 Required Votes (171%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3332598]3. Tim Tebow (QB)[/url]
Born February 11, 1961 in little-known Massillon, Ohio, the Tim Tebow of the FHFL universe was an average-at-best third string quarterback throughout high school and college graduating in 1984 from the College of Boston. Initially, Tebow didn't intend to even enter the draft under the presumption he would not be selected. A friend was able to encourage him to give it a try and after an average outing in the combine he was pleasantly surprised to belected as the sixth quarterback in the draft (albeit in the round five) behind such greats as Joe McKoy, Kelly Cindrich and Matt Boreland (all Sim Bowl winners).
After disappointing outings his first few seasons, Tebow began to develop at an absurd pace. He'd put graduate school on hold for this and after coming so far did not want to simply be flushed out in free agency in the offseason. Improving week-to-week at a rate never seen before in FHFL he earned contract extension after contract extension taking the team to the Sim Bowl for the first time in 1987 off a wild card slot in the playoffs although they lost. They won the division the following year and made it to the playoffs yet again the following year in a wildcard but did not progress any further until 1990 when Tebow led the Federalists to the first of many championships 27-14 over the Virginia VacVigilantes after a 13-3 season. To silence any doubters, he went 12-4 the next season and won the championship again against the Orlando Flippers 13-7. By 1992 he was posting passer ratings in the high eighties.
The next season the repeated their 12-4 record but "only" won the division. They "made up" for this by going 12-4 and 10-6 the following two seasons going back to the title game back to back once again. The first of these two Sim Bowl berths they won. Then, "just because", Tebow won his final title in 1996 against Cleveland bringing his total ring count to four out of six Sim Bowl appearences before having quieter runs in Washington and Arizona to top off his career.
For a fifth round pick to possibly the greatest QB of FHFL history? Not bad. Not bad at all.
Drafted: Round 5, Pick 154 (1984)
Retired: 1998 (15 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3339/5724 Passing for 37,897 Yards, 58.3% Completion Rate, 200 Passing TDs, 176 INT, 77.1 Career QBR
Voting: Received 11/7 Required Votes (157%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2004[/size][/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3332676]1. Joe McKoy (QB)[/url]
Few who ever saw Joe McKoy play in his professional career from 1984 even until the bitter end in 1997 would dispute his place here. Born April 16, 1961 in Irvington, New Jersey, everyone from the schoolyard to his first football team in middle school and onward knew that Joe was going to become something special. With all of the intangibles you could dream of in a young quarterback and an arm to boot, he was on every scout's wishlist coming out of the State University of Ohio after a stellar career.
when the New England Soviets happened upon the first overall pick in the 1984 draft, Joe was a no-brainer as the Soviets were in need of a longterm quarterback, but no one could imagine just how much of a sure bet McKoy would be.
In fourteen seasons with the Soviets, McKoy won three world championships to match his three conference championships going 3/3 in Sim Bowls which is unprecedented. His first World Championship came in only his second season. He won four division titles to boot, was a part of nine division title winning teams and entered the playoffs four other times on a wildcard winning two of his world titles without even capturing the division!
Although relegated to a backup role by his reitrement in 1997, he took home his last division title that year as part of a great retirement for one the greatest quarteracks of all time. McKoy also finished above 40,000 career passing yards and a career QBR above eighty, both rare feats in the modern passing era.
For fourteen years in Soviet red, there was something to be feared about the name McKoy.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 1 (1984)
Retired: 1997 (14 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3909/6525 Passing for 42,362 Yards, 59.9% Completion Rate, 257 Passing TDs, 174 INT, 81.1 Career QBR
Voting: Received 5/5 Required Votes (100%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2731663]2. Baylon Brees (QB)[/url]
New Orleans has the honor of being the first team to ever have not only two of their franchise's quarterbacks in the Hall of Fame, but Brew Dees's and Baylon Brees's careers literally ended and began right after one another giving New Orleans twenty-eight years of uninterrupted Hall of Fame Quarterback play which is a feat in its self.
Born December 6, 1945 in the sun of Honolulu Hawaii only four years after the Attack on Pearl Harbor and only a few months removed from the Japanese surrender, Brees grew up in the post-war boom seeing his country go from a terrible war originating from an attack on his birthplace to struggle for a sense of normalcy in the midst of social upheaval and change. Graduating from Southern California University five years after the assasination of John F. Kennedy, Brees was the product of a country working and striving to be better. And he was.
Baylon Brees played a total of twelve seasos and won a division title every season he played except one although he never won a conference or world title. He finished with a completion rate aove 60%, finished fourteenth all time in passing touchdowns and a QBR near 90. Brees was as good as money but his failure to capture the conference or a world title is likely a product of the era of great quarterbacking that was the seventies. One of the greatest QBs never to win the big won, Brees has an even more important honor that few Sim Bowl winning QBs have: an induction into the Hall of Fame by his peers. A great choice to enter the Phenom Hall of Fame.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 1 (1969)
Retired: 1980 (12 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3081/5102 Passing for 38,721 Yards, 60.4% Completion Rate, 238 Passing TDs, 131 INT, 88.9 Career QBR
Voting: Received 5/5 Required Votes (100%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2519162]3. Andrew Wiggin (QB)[/url]
A product of the Great Depression, long before the possibility of becoming a million dollar athlete even factored into the equation of football as a career choice, one man helped make the FHFL what it is today.
Born to parents who'd lost it all in the stock market on December 4, 1934 in Ballinger, Texas, Andrew Wiggin worked his way through school to graduate in 1956 with full honors. With the world at his fingertips, Wiggin decided what he wanted to do with his life is play football. The unfortunate thing was that at the time, no FHFL existed...
With a history as long and as successful as the Cyclons franchise, it comes as little surprise that another one of their players from days past ends up here in these hallowed halls. Although he passed away in 1996 from heart disease, the Offensive Rookie of the Year Award was named in his honor and although he came up short in the only Sim Bowl he ever made it to, he has an honor that no one else will ever be able to take away from him: being the first draft pick ever in FHFL history as the league had its humble start in the 1960. Already a former mvp for the West Coast Football League, a precursor to the FHFL, Wiggin entered the league at age 26 and was out ten years later at age 36.
His professional career however, lasted for fifteen years. With five seasons under his belt in the precursor to the FHFL, there were little rookie-doubts about this man who had amassed quite a career by his mid-twenties when he was drafted first overall. The Cyclons knew what they had and it almost took them all the way although Wiggin did accomplish the division crown eight times out of ten seasons played.
Even though he had a relatively short career, Wiggin threw for very nearly 40,000 yards in that time. His 313 Passing TDs still stand as the 4th highest career total of all time, and his 92.6 Career QBR, 11th of All-Time, will likely never be surpassed.
It's hard to have the resume to get into the Hall of Fame without a World Championship ring, but consider Wiggin the archetype and hope that if one of your rookies wins the award blessed with his name, some of that Wiggin magic rubs off on them too...
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 1 (1996)
Retired: 1970 (15 Seasons/10 Seasons in the FHFL)
Career Stats: 2784/4798 Passing for 39,342 Yards, 50.4% Completion Rate, 313 Passing TDs, 158 INT, 92.6 Career QBR
Voting: Received 5/5 Required Votes (100%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3332676]4. Singor Galvin (RB)[/url]
Yet another New Orleans great enshrined in the Hall of Fame, few would argue against the 28th overall pick from 1979's resume. Born July 11th, 1956 in Portland, as a particularly energetic youth he gained a reputation for constantly running. Getting the hint his mother signed him up for his first football team as a running back in the hopes that he'd do more running on the field and less up and down the stairs at home. Little did she know how her investment would pay off!
Impressing from that point on, Galvin was scouted by Michigan State College and graduated in 1979 finding himself drafted to the stories team from New Orleans. With over 15,000 career rushing yards, 94 career rushing TDs and a 4.7 career rushing average over an eleven season career, Galvin undoubtedly was one of the best to ever come out of the backfield. He has eight division titles to back up his claim although Galvin was a victim to the period of time in which New Orleans, despite ruling their division, seemingly could not advance to the Sim Bowl. His own individual statistics in spite of this speak for themselves and Galvin goes down as one of the best never to win the big one...
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 28 (1979)
Retired: 1991 (11 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3254 Rushing Attempts for 15,303 Yards, 4.7 Average Gain Per Rush, 94 Rushing TDs, 88 Long Career Rushing
Voting: Received 5/5 Required Votes (100%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2003[/size][/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2427116]1. Brew Drees (QB)[/url]
Sometimes we take the game too seriously and it's easy to get caught up on a funny sounding name. Thing is that the Brewmaster of the French Quarter, Brew Drees, was anything but a laughing matter. In an era nowadays (at the time of writing this) where having thirty or forty thousand yards career passing is a laudable goal, it's easy to feel like we all missed out on having a player like Drees on our team. With one of the top career quarterback ratings of all time at 92.8 over 16 years even in his waning years in his late thirties as a backup he still finished his last two seasons with quarterback ratings over seventy. At 37/38 years of age.
Born February 21, 1935 in sunny Los Angeles California, Drees was the son of a wealthy family and had the ability to go into any occupation of his choosing. Rather than coast through life on his family's fortune, Drees purposefully went to obscure Alabama College. He went to Alabama College because he had only played a year of football in high school and wanted to play professionally. Unable to get drafted in any league he approached, he was finally entered into the inagural FHFL draft in 1960 where he was taken second overall by the team that would house him for all sixteen years that he played, the New Orleans REBELS. Once he had time and room to shine under the bright lights, Drees seemed to ascend into one fo the best quarterbacks in FHFL history seemingly overnight with pinpoint accuracy and the distinction of breaing the 50k career passing yard mark.
Although Drees did not win a world title with the REBELS or even get to a conference game, he won the team their first division title in 1965, repeated in 1966 and led the team to another division title in 1968 in a season shortened by injury. Although he was usurped as started the following year for Baylon Brees and only started fifteen games in his final three seasons, his division title win in 1968 began a ten year streak of division titles for New Oreleans, a feat that may not soon be matched.
For bringing California love to Burbon Street and putting together one of the most ridiculous stat lines in FHFL history we proudly welcome Brew Dees as the first ever nominated member of the FHFL Phenom Hall of Fame enshrined by a landslide.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 2 (1960)
Retired: 1972 (16 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3748/6190 Passing for 50,216 Yards, 60.5% Completion Rate, 347 Passing TDs, 182 INT, 92.8 Career QBR
Voting: Received 14/10 Required Votes (140%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2519162]2. Jim Lane (QB)[/url]
Born in Los Angeles, California on June 9, 1941 to a single mother and as an only child, Jim Lane not only excelled in sports under the pressure of his hardship, but in academics as well as he became determined to rescue himself and his mother from their surroundings. After a stellar college career in California Multitechnic University, Lane opted not to declare as a Junior and instead not only was drafted first overall in 1965 (picked ahead of Fod Fitzgerald Sr.) but graduated with honors with a degree in biochemistry.
Playing all but one season for the same franchise as it changed from the Buffalo Tigers to the Buffalo Bigots, to the Washington Capitolists where he made his sole Sim Bowl appearence in 1975. Although he never won a championship, he is one of few QBs to throw over 40,000 yards and his career QBR of 90.2 is one that we may never see again. One of the great QBs not to win a championship and one I had the fortune to play with as I introduced myself to the game, Jim Lane, we salute you and welcome you the FHFL Phenom Hall of Fame!
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 1 (1965)
Retired: 1977 (13 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3387/5561 Passing for 44,183 Yards, 51.7% Completion Rate, 254 Passing TDs, 147 INTs, 90.2 Career QBR
Voting: Received 13/10 Required Votes (130%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Expansion Class of 2002[/size]
* These players were the stat leaders as of 2001 and were automatically inducted. They were not voted on by franchise owners. This was done so that the first hall of fame class to be voted on could feature slightly more contemporary players. There is an asterisk next to their hall of fame induction, but not really.[/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2573308]Fod Fitzgerald Sr. (QB)[/url]
Born August 27, 1943 in Shattuck, OK, Fod Fitzgerald has become the posterboy for the high passing "days of old". Before his son came into the league to get a ring of his own, there was his namesake who finished his career with stats we will likely never see again with the modern rules of the FHFL. Drafted with the seventh overall pick in 1965 and finishing with an undheard of seven Sim Bowl championships, he turned the Chicago KnightCaps, then known as the Green Bay Goblins, owner phen0m into a legend. Serving fourteen seasons and not missing a single game in ten seasons. Fitzgerald also holds the distinction of being the all-time passing yards and all-time passing touchdown leader-- records that may never be broken due to changes in the game.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 7 (1965)
Retired: 1979 (14 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3996/6481 Passing for 57,488 yards, 61.7% Completion Rate, 382 Passing TDs, 173 INT, 98.9 QBR
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2933627]Dave Brown (RB)[/url]
Born March 10, 1951 in Binghamton, NY, Dave Brown served all 14 seasons for the San Francisco Cyclons, then known as the San Jose Cyclons. With only a single loosing season while he was on the roster in San Jose, Brown helped bring SJ 9 division championships, four conference championships and Sim Bowl appearances and one Sim Bowl Championship. Retiring in 1973, Brown remains the All-Time Rushing Yards leader by nearly 1,000 yards.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 16 (1973)
Retired: 1986 (14 Years)
Career Stats: Started 159/188 Games, 3,175 Rushing Attempts for 16,421 Yards, 5.2 Average Gain Per Rush, 111 Rushing TDs, Lost 33/52 Fumbles, 79 Long Rushing
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2427455]Richard Coakley (RB)[/url]
Born May 12, 1937 in Kingston, PA, when Richard Coakley retired from the game in 1971, he still rushed better than most active running backs today. A former second round pick in the 1960 draft, Coakley was a part of the legendary and eternally-feared phen0m franchise whose stats still reverberate throughout the FHFL today. The all-time rushing TD leader eclipsing the #2 person on that list by 100 rushing touchdowns, Coakley played for thireteen seasons and was still starting as late as 1968 before he finally hung up his cleets in 1972 after a brief stint with the San Francisco Great Whites currently known as the Anahiem Cougars.
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 45 (1960)
Retired: 1971 (13 Years)
Career Stats: Started 139/170 Games, 2,789 Rushing Attempts for 13,266 Yards, 4.8 Average Gain Per Rush, 245 Rushing TDs, Lost 24/53 Fumbles, 69 Long Rushing
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2685561]Alonzo Vactor (WR)[/url]
Born September 23, 1945 in Spokane, Washington, Alonzo Vactor debuted for New Orleans in 1968 as the 23rd overall pick. Making his imprint on three decades of football from 1968 to 1983, Vactor remains the All-Time Receiving Yards Leader with a blistering 18,001 career receiving yards. In his seven years as a starter, the New Orleans REBELS never had a loosing season and won six out of seven division championships. With hands like glue and perhaps some of the most dangerous legs ever to bless a wide receiver, Vanzo will forever be known as one of the best receivers of all time.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 23 (1968)
Retired: 1983 (15 Years)
Career Stats: Started 127/228 Games, 1,279/2101 Receiving for 18,001 Yards, 60.9% Reception Rate, 6,423 Yards AFter Catch, 5.0 AVerage YAC, 117 Receiving TDs, 69 Dropped Passes
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2427456]Winston Wolf (RB/KR/PR)[/url]
If Leo Harper is going to be in the Hall of Fame for being tied #1 for career Kick Return Touchdowns at seven with this man, it would be a crime if Winston Wolf weren't a part of this eternal hall. Wolf not only is tied for the #1 Kick Returns for Touchdowns but is the outright leader in the same category for punt returns at 7. Born March 1st, 1937 in Detroit, after being drafted in 1960 by the team that would one day become the Anaheim Cougars, Winston Wolf was an above average running back who perhaps didn't get anough snaps in his time with only 10.9 attempts per game in his career. Besides having nearly 7,000 career rushing yards and 47 rushing touchdowns however, what Winston Wolf will always be known for is his special teams ability. With 7 Punt Return TDs and 7 Kick Return TDs, both records, after retiring in 1969, no player in the FHFL has managed to touch his record as the all-time best special teams returner of all time.
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 38 (1960)
Retired: 1969 (10 Years)
Career Stats: Started 113/134 Games, 1,455 Rushing Attempts for 6,980 Yards, 4.8 Average Gain Per Rush, 47 Rushing TDs, Lost 12/20 Fumbles, 66 Long Rushing, 208 Kick Returns for 6,172 Kick Return Yards, 29.7 Average Kick Return, 7 Kick Return TDs, 102 Long Kick Return, 1 Kick Return Fumble, 235 Punt REturns for 3,097 Yards, 13.2 Average Punt Return, 7 Punt Return TDs, 73 Long Punt Return, 36 Long Punt Return
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2685547]Leo Harper (WR/PR/KR)[/url]
Born June 27, 1945 in Cortland, New York, Leo Harper played eleven seasons in the FHFL, all for the Phoenix Outlaws, currently known as the New York Nephilim. He finished as a fairly average receiver, but became a monster special teams player with thirteen special teams touchdowns-- seven career kick return touchdowns, and six career punt return touchdowns. Coming in at second place for all-time special teams touchdowns and tying for first place in all-time kick return TDs.
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 56 (1967)
Retired: 1978 (11 Years)
Career Stats: Started 68/176 Games, 270 Kick Returns for 7,187 Yards, 26.6 Kick Return Average, 7 Kick Return TDs, 102 Long Kick Return, 430 Punt Returns for 4,207 Yards, 6 Punt Return TDs, 77 Long Punt Return
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2431377]Joey Middleton (K)[/url]
Born August 24, 1939 although soon to be overshadowed by Minnesota's Barry Bruno once he become eligible, the man right under him was no slouch. Hailing from San Antonio Texas and going 35th overall in the second round, Joey Middleton put in fifteen years of service between the Providence Rhodies and retiring from the Newark Urban Slumlords. Although he completed what some might consider to be a low 82.2% of his field goals, he's firmly in second place in between still-active Barry Bruno and long retired Russ Morris. Middleton made 378/460 field goals in his career and missed only five of his 468 extra point attempts. When looking at the all-time stats on kickers, Middleton stands the test of time as one of the most prolific.
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 35 (1962)
Retired: 1976 (15 Years)
Career Stats: Started 235/235 Games, 378/460 FGA, 82.2% Field Goal Rate for 1,134 field goal points, 55 Career Long, 473/468 XPA for 473 PAT points, 98.9% XP Rate
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2970072]Anthony Sergienko (P)[/url]
One of the most underappeciated positions in the game, is the punter, and while punter Emil Jefferson will likely take the shine away from this steel-toed legend, for the moment there is no punter more suited for the hall of fame than Anthony Sergienko. A former 3rd round pick from Oklahoma University, Sergienko was born on May 29, 1952 in Rockford, IL. He spent all fifteen years of his career playing for the Hamilton TigerCats who eventually became the Memphis Stiners and are now known as the Norfolk Jedi. Although many attribute Sergienko's success as the #2 punt yard leader in FHFL history to Hamilton's storied struggles in stabilizing their franchise, the fact remains that Sergienko has 69,773 punting yards which is more yards than the amount of yards thrown by the all-time passing yard leader in teir career. 50% of 1,595 of Sergienko's punts either were touchbacks or pinned the opponent in the 20. Sergienko is the all time leader of punts pinning the opponent into their own 20 with 681 of such punts, a record that may not ever be broken.
Drafted: Round 3, Pick 65 (1975)
Retired: 1975 (15 Years)
Career Stats: Started 239/239 Games, 1,595 Punts for 69,773 Punting Yards, 43.7 Career Average Punt, 681 IN20, 119 Touchbacks, 67 Long Punting
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2428596]Cortez Times (DT)[/url]
There are plenty of defensive tackles to be afraid of each and every season, but it may be a long time before one terrifies offenses quite like Cortez Times. The all-time sack leader with 176 career sacks and 28 career forced fumbles was born November 29, 1936 in Beaufort, South Carolina. After attending the State University of Alabama, Times was drafted in the seventh round of the 1960 draft by the Seattle (now San Francisco) Cyclons. In fifteen long years, Times made the league regret letting him slip to the seventh round as perhaps one of the greatest draft steals of all time. Times spent the majority of his storied career with the Cyclons before a brief one-season run for the Edmonton Mall Rats (now New Jersey Sharks) where at age 37 he still managed to come up with five sacks and one forced fumble cementing him as one of the greatest seventh round picks to ever live.
Drafted: Round 7, Pick 219 (1960)
Retired: 1974 (15 Years)
Career Stats: Started 221/221 Games, 176 Sacks, 28 Career Forced Fumbles
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2431173]Jamie Wells (S)[/url]
Teams pride themselves on their secondaries nowadays, but no matter who is on your roster today, it may be a long time before we see another Jamie Wells, if ever. Wells, a 19th overall pick in the first round by the Seattle (now San Fransisco) Cyclons in 1961. Drafted out of Southern Louisiana University after being born on Logan, Utah, Wells played 12 years for the Cyclons in which he became the all-time leader in overall pass defenses. With 41 Broken-Up Passes and 60 outright interceptions, Wells garnered 101 overall defended passes and 9 defensive touchdowns to become one of the biggest banes to the pass game Quarterbacks in the FHFL have ever had the displeasure of matching up against. Wells is the all-time interception leader with 60.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 19 (1961)
Retired: 1972 (12 Years)
Career Stats: Started 167/185 Games, 41 Broken-Up Passes, 60 Interceptions for 983 Interceptions Yards, 97 Long Intercepted, 101 overall pass defenses, 9 Defensive Touchdowns
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3300038]Alvin Gibson (CB)[/url]
How on earth did the all-time leader in broken-up passes end up becoming a journeyman? Well, that's exactly what happened with Alvin Gibson who was drafted by the Saskatchewan Yeti (currently San Antonio Silver Hawks) 30th overall in the 1982 draft playing the first three of their seasons there only gaining three broken-up passes in his stay there. Sasketchewan then became Milwauke and in his final four years with the franchise he broke up 19 passes! Miraculously, he was traded to the Arizona Desert Shaman in 1990 and from then until 1992, broke up 11 more passes. Then, somehow, he was traded again to the new Sasketchewan team, the Chimeras (now Edmonton Fire Ants) of an unrelated team history of their original draft team and stuck it in the faces of the two teams that traded him with 13 more broken passes before calling it a career. Oh, and he has 45 career interceptions for 709 yards and 7 defensive touchdowns. Inducted the first year he was eligible he is a definite symbol of why the Hall of Fame is definetely worth the investment of time.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 30 (1982)
Retired: 1996 (15 Year)
Career Stats: Started 180/224 Games, 9 Sacks, 47 Broken-Up Passes, 45 Interceptions for 709 Interception Yards, 90 long intercepted, 92 overall defended passes, 7 defensive touchdowns.
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2685585]Bob Baker (CB)[/url]
In twelve years, Bob Baker played for what would eventually become the current Tennessee Shawnees and in that time, built up a reputation as perhaps one of the most threatening defensive players of all time-- and he was a cornerback. The all-time career leader in defensive touchdowns with 11 along with 13 career sacks, 1 forced fumble 21 broken up passes and 42 interceptions, even though he was a shadow of himself in 1979 when the Winnipeg Jets acquired him from the waiver wire it was almost out of respect for the player who scored more touchdowns than any defensive player in FHFL history.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 8 (1979)
Retired: 1979 (12 Years)
Career Stats: Started 79/185 Games, 13 career sacks, 21 broken-up passes, 42 interceptiosn for 894 interception yards, 86 long intercepted, 62 defended passes overall, 1 forced fumble, 11 defensive touchdowns
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3050058]Steve Saenz (DE)[/url]
Quarterbacks everywhere breathed a sigh of relief in 1990 when Steve Saenz stepped away from the game of football. The all-time leader in forced fumbles and a master of the art of the sack with 120 in his career, Saenz was drafted by the Philadelphia Whiners (currently the Louisville Leprechauns) in 1976, the year in which he gained 8 sacks and the first of many forced fumbles. In his third year, 1978, Saenz not only registered 16 sacks, a career high, but also registered an unheard of 10 forced fumbles in a single-season, also a career high. From there he had brief stints in Arizona and then the Miami Monsoon which is currently the Las Vegas Outlaws until he retired as a free agent in 1990. Make sure you have both hands on the football guys.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 15 (1976)
Retired: 1989 (12 Years)
Career Stats: Started 189/190 Games, 120 Career Sacks, 1 Interception, 39 Career Forced Fumbles
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FHFL Phenom Hall of Fame
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[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2011[/size][/align][url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3554049]1. Barry Bruno (K)[/url]
There can only be one "the best" in their field and it is an honor and reflection of this Hall of Fame that we get to induct perhaps the best and most clutch kicker the league has ever seen- Barry Bruno.
Born Baron Brunitzky on March 3, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois the son of poor Ukrainian immigrants, Brunitzky always dedicated himself to being the best at everything he could. He saw the struggles of his parents and wanted to be someone someday so that he could make their American dream come true. Often dressed in hand-me-downs with the cheapest haircut in class, few expected much of him in spite of his desire. His grades were moderate, his social skills were lacking and the kids thought his parents talked funny.
Then one day, Baron was persuaded to try out for the school's soccer team.
Mostly due to not knowing anything about the game, he was technically abysmal but his coaches took note of the uncanny power of his leg for a teenager. On a particular occasion when attempting to score the goalie easily was able to catch his kick but the force with which it hit his chest was such that the goalie ended up in the nurses office.
Then came football.
Joining the varsity football team as a sophomore initially as a punter, Baron grew tired of the role quickly wanting to help score points. With uncanny intuition he was able to craft his kicks into more accurate lasers rather than just kicking the ball as hard as he could. By the time he was a senior he had broken several national records for length of kicks and quantity. He was able to secure a scholarship to Illinois State College a skip and a beat from home and after a successful collegiate career entered the 1990 draft. The rest is history.
Bruno holds the record for the most successful field goals in league history thereby scoring the most points in league history for a kicker. From a kid with a powerful leg who wanted to score some points to becoming the most prolific kicker in FHFL history, we are proud to welcome Mr. Barry Bruno to the FHFL Hall of Fame!
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 11 (1990)
Retired: 2006 (17 Seasons)
Career Stats: 590/727 Field Goals Made, 81.2%, 69 LNG FGM, 547/551 PAT, 99.3%
Voting: 10/6 (167%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3404578]2. Joe Wonsley (RB)[/url]
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[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3644990]3. Kerry Morris (WR)[/url]
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[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2431204]4. Bob Gaffney (DE)[/url]
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[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2429582&displaytab=stats]5. Wind Spinner (CB)[/url]
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[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2009[/size][/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3428739]1. Bob Long (QB)[/url]
In an age where quarterbacks rarely maintain a career passer rating in the seventies, it's no shock why a sixteen-year quarterback who finished his career with a CAREER passer rating above eighty finds himself here in the hall of legends. A two-time Sim Bowl Champion ranked #1 all-time in completions, 5th all-time in passing first downs, 1st all-time in games started and 4th all-time in passing TDs Bob Long was born on April 13th, 1965 to a single mother in Miami Florida. Having an affinity for the game of football from a young age, Long dreamt of becoming a championship-winning quarterback one day with his name among his idols.
Graduating from Alabama College in 1987, Long was picked with the 45th overall pick in the second round by the Milwaukee Marauders which eventually became the San Antonio Silver Hawks, In his very first season, Long managed a passer rating above ninety throwing 22 TDs and only 7 picks. His two Sim-Bowl wins were back-to-back in 1994 and 1995, both seasons in which the San Antonio entered the playoffs as a wildcard. Perhaps one of the most formidable but underrated signal callers to grace the league, we're happy to welcome Mr. Long into the FHFL Phenom Hall of Fame. Congratulations!
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 45 (1987)
Retired: 2003 (16 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 256/256 Games, 5,016/8,286 Passing for 50,358 Yards, 60.5% Completion Rate, 467 Passing Touchdowns, 199 Interceptions
Voting: Received 9/6 Required Votes (150%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2428996]2. Lance Baxter (DE)[/url]
Born on the 12th of September, 1938, a child of the depression era and World War II, Lance Baxter came from a long line of military men and women and would have been slated to do the same had he not had a rebelious streak in him. Always a large but agile child, he got into football in middle school and discovered from his coaches that he was very good at it. Pursuing it into high school and then college, Baxter moved from position to position for most of his school career until finally settling on the position he'd play for the next few decades, Defensive End.
Drafted by what would become the San Francisco Cyclons in the first-ever FHFL draft (1960) Baxter didn't find a team until the 8th round. Most of the players selected before him are not even remembered. In his sixteen seasons, Baxter racked up 162 career sacks along with 31 forced fumbles making him a master of putting pressure on the quarterback. One of the best pass-rushers of all time, Baxter helped the Cyclons accumulate nine-straight division championships and one conference championships. Unfortunately, he found himself on the loosing end of Sim Bowl VII in 1966.
Congratulations to the Cyclons and to Baxter for finally making it among legends!
Drafted: Round 8, Pick 251 (1960)
Retired: 1974 (16 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 203/229 Games, 162 Sacks, 31 Forced Fumbles, 1 Broken Pass, 3 Interceptions, 2 Pick-6's
Voting: Received 6/6 Required Votes (100%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2008[/size][/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3526817]1. Rob Constantine (TE)[/url]
There are tight ends who block and there are tight ends who catch. There are also tight ends who can block AND catch. Then there's Rob E. Constantine. Robert Earl Constantine was born April 25, 1968 in the small town of Morristown, Tennessee as the son of farmers, Robert and his father often would toss the pigskin around in the cornfields which is much more difficult than it sounds. Developing his soon-to-be-infamous skills for catching in traffic and gaining a feel for the ball without seeing it, Rob wanted to be a receiver. As he entered high school and became much more naturally bulky and not very tall, his father convinced him to try out for the high school team as a right tackle where he excelled.
It was actually as a right tackle that Rob Constantine was granted a scholarship to his Alma Matter North Dakota University. Finding North Dakota to be not so different than his home in Tennessee, Constantine grew and flourished in his new environment constantly pushing himself to be better and better. Once his coaches saw that he had a skill for catching the ball as well, they decided to try him as a tight end in his sophomore year and the rest is football history. Breaking school records and helping to bring the national championship home in 1990, his last year, it was not much of a shock that he was taken high in the first round when he entered the FHFL draft.
Being drafted by the Washington Capitolists with a pricey fifth overall pick behind Nolan Creed and Jedemia Clampet, Constantine had a lot to prove as Creed, Clampet and other first round picks had an obvious upside to them. So prove it he did. Capturing 64.13% of his passes in Washington for 7,863 yards with 3,223 of them being after the catch, Constantine, Creed and the rest of that iteration of the Capitolists failed to capture a Sim Bowl title in their time together, but the stats may win them a much bigger prize-- starting with Constantine.
Traded to the Minnesota Tree Dwellers in 1998, Constantine continued to play well until the end of his career with 2,423 more receiving yards in his thirties with his best ever year in 1999 when he received for 1,027 yards. It was with Minnesota that Constantine broke the ten thousand receiving yard barrier, one seldom broken by receivers let alone tight ends. Rob Constantine deserves to be here.
We welcome you to the FHFL Hall of Fame!
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 5 (1989)
Retired: 2002 (14 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 216/218 Games, 1,077 for 1,675 Receiving for 10,752 Yards, 4,095 YAC, 3.8 Career YACA, 75 Long Receiving, 48 Receiving TDs
Voting: Received 9/6 Required Votes (150%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3332689]2. Marquez Dirico (WR)[/url]
We have all finally come to our senses and put this man in the hall of fame where he belongs. It only took four ballots!
Born March 30, 1961 in Muscle Shoals, Alabama to a single mother who raised her two sons, Marquez and Salazar to the best of her ability in a hard world. When asked how he got into the sport of football, Marquez recalled that it was to chase after a girl.
"It was sophomore year and she was the most beautiful girl I'd ever laid eyes on," Dirico recalled when interviewed by SSPN News in 1995. "At the time, I didn't even play hopscotch. Being the stupid horny teenager I was, I figured I'd pick up just enough of the game and be seen on the field just enough by her to get her number. Little did I know that that act of stupidity brought both my career and my wife into my life."
Tragedy struck Dirico and his family in 1979 when a botched home invasion led to the shooting deaths of both his mother Elaine and his brother Salazar leaving Dirico a lost drifting teenager.
"I could have gone down a dark path," Dirico said in the same interview. "There were plenty of opportunities for that. If it wasn't for football and the fact that my mom had wanted to see me drafted to an FHFL team so badly, I doubt I'd be here to give this interview right now."
Dirico was taken fifth overall in the 1983 draft after an explosion in college blowing scouts away consistently and with a fire in his belly every time he walked out onto the field. He did not capture a conference or Sim Bowl title in his time in the league but his numbers speak for themselves - over 13,000 receiving yards, nearly 90 receiving touchdowns, only 22 drops in his entire career and a blistering 5.7 YACA. Whether it was natural talent or a passion to make his mother and brother proud, Marquez Dirico became one of the greatest receivers of all time.
We are proud to welcome Marquez Dirico to the FHFL Hall of Fame!
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 5 (1983)
Retired: 1998 (16 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 195/239 Games, 1,110/1,811 Receving for 13,895 Yards, 61.3% Reception Rate, 6,286 YAC, 5.7 Career YACA, 89 Receiving TDs, 84 Long Receiving
Voting: Received 6/6 Required Votes (100%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2007[/size][/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2428917]1. Yogen Fruz (DE)[/url]
Born October 17, 1937, Yogen Fruz will go down as one of the most devestating defensive players in FHFL history. Born in the city of Live Oak in Florida to a single father, Fruz excelled as a varsity football player helping to bring a string of state and national titles to the school in his four years there. Always standing several feet above his growing peers and always with the strength of a full grown weightlifter, Fruz actually had to learn to be LESS aggressive in his style of play in order to get a scholarship to North Carolina University as part of the class of 1960.
Excelling in college and being drafted in the FHFL's first ever draft the year he graduated, Fruz served all twelve seasons of play as either a member of the Edmonton Mall Rats (now the New Jersey Sharks) or as a free agent for his last year. In his time with the team, Fruz amassed an astonishing, frightening and unbelieveable 165 sacks for the Mall Rats, the second highest number of sacks recorded for a player in league history.
Although he never made it to the big game or won a conference title, Fruz helped bring eight division titltes to the Mall Rats. From his position as a defensive end he was able to create thirty-six forced fumbles becoming a nightmare for anyone he faced on the gridiron. We now welcome him to stand alongside the #1 sacker of all-time, Cortez Times, as an example of what a defense needs to be truly feared.
Fruz passed away of natural causes at the age of 62 in 2000.
Drafted: Round 8, Pick 228 (1960)
Retired: 1971 (12 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 183/183 Games, 165 Sacks, 36 Forced Fumbles, 3 Defended Passes Total, 2 Broken-Up Passes and 1 Interception
Voting: Received 13/6 Required Votes (216%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2573322]2. Ernie Bradshaw (WR)[/url]
Born March 20, 1943 in the city of Washington, PA, the son of a doctor a school teacher, Ernie Bradshaw was always an energetic child but his parents likely had no idea that he would become one of the best receivers in FHFL History. An only child, Bradshaw first began playing football in high school where he originally played running back before he transferred his skills to the wide receiver position before senior year. He had such a good showing in that year's national championship that he was able to attend the College of Georgia on partial scholarship.
Plagued with a series of tumultuous off-the-field issues but getting better with every snap, Bradshaw was still able to become the last person taken in the first round of the 1966 draft, 32 overall, by the Green Bay Tundra who helped him turn his life around.
A part of Fod Fitzgerald Sr.'s astonishing six Sim Bowls in a row and five championships in a row, Bradshaw amassed amazing stats catching the ball for this team and no matter if it was his skill or being in the right place in the right time, it's hard not to end up in the hall of fame when you literally have a championship ring for each finger.
Staying on as the team changed management several times, Bradshaw was never able to move onto the fingers on his other hand but what he'd done already at that point in his career was more than enough. Out of ten seasons, Bradshaw received more than 60% of passes thrown his direction and only ended the season with fewer than one thousand yards once. Nearly reaching 100 total career touchdown receptions (97) before retiring in 1977 due to chronic back injuries, Bradshaw remains the archetype for wide receivers in the FHFL.
Sadly, Bradshaw passed away on the last day in May, 2002 from skin cancer. He spent his last moments surrounded by family and friends. Now we honor him with the gift of one more ring.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 2 (1966)
Retired: 1977 (10 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 28/136 Games, 820/1325 Receiving for 13,439 Yards, 61.9% Completion Rate, 97 Receiving TDs, 4,246 YAC, 5.2 Career YACA
Voting: Received 8/6 Required Votes (133%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2457100]3. Joe Caroll (QB)[/url]
In a development that seemed to take far too long, one of the most dangerous quarterbacks to ever walk on an FHFL field has finally made his way into the Hall of Fame.
Born on January 8, 1941 in Fort Worth, Texas, Joe Carroll was the son of painters who aspired to be a writer much of his life following in their artistic vein. It wasn't until his high school coach took an interest in him due to his natural athleticism in junior year. From the moment he hit the field he was great. He did not have a sports scholarship to attend the University of Philadelphia initially and it nearly broke his parents trying to fund his education. Still wanting to be a writer until he tried out for the team there it was much to his surprise when he discovered he, again, was a natural at it.
Developing him as much as they could before the 1964 draft, the British Columbia Owls took a chance on him taking him second overall. The rest is history. Literally. Two Sim Bowl Championships, seven Sim Bowl appearances (five in a row), seven division titles, and a stat line that we all know you're jealous of-- a passer rating of 91.8! All from the son of a pair of painters.
Carroll retired on the Dallas Cowboys in 1976, one of the most successful players in the history of the game. He was able to pursue his career in writing publishing several science fiction novels that became bestsellers including The Pocket, a fictional account of a quarterback much like Carroll. The book was made into the film Scramble in 1987.
Joe Carroll passed away from complications of heart surgery in 1995. The 8th of January is still known in British Columbia as Joe Carroll day.
It is our honor to posthumous induct one of the best to ever do it into the FHFL Hall of Fame
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 2 (1964)
Retired: 1975 (12 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 143/158 Games, 2,972/4,917 Passing for 37,874 Yards, 60.4% Completion Rate, 245 Touchdowns, 110 Interceptions, 91.8 Career Passer Rating
Voting: Received 6/6 Required Votes (100%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3370060]4. Billy O'Sullivan (QB)[/url]
Once upon a time, the Louisville Leprechauns truly had the luck of the Irish on their side and it came from New Orleans by way of Georgia. Born March 8, 1962 in Atlanta, Georgia to mild mannered and hard working parents, Billy O'Sullivan was the oldest of seven children, a budding athelete even in his youth. His first championship was the Little League World Title which he won in 1972 long before he became the force that now resides in the Phenom Hall of Fame.
Tragedy struck when 18-year-old Billy O'Sullivan's father was killed in a car crash by a drunk driver days before he was to attend Washington State College with a full football scholarship. Billy wanted to stay at home and become the new man of the house and guide his six younger brothers and sisters to adulthood but his mother pushed him into going to college knowing that was what his father would have wanted.
Drafted fourth overall in the 1984 draft by New Orleans, O'Sullivan rounded out the end of an amazing six-year streak of division titles by the REBELS. Being traded to the Leprechauns for tackle Jim Alexander, tight end Phil Brown and a third round pick, it was in Louisville where O'Sullivan became most well known winning four more division titles before retiring in the year 2000. His QBR may not show it, but in his era he was one of the more feared quarterbacks in the league. A rare modern quarterback who surpassed 40,000 yards with a Passer Rating 80 or above, Billy O'Sullivan deserves a hearty welcome to the Hall of Fame!
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 4 (1984)
Retired: 1999 (16 Seasons)
Career Stats: Started 218/221 Games, 4,035/6,748 Passing for 44,925 Yards, 59.8% Completion Rate, 279 Touchdowns, 212 Interceptions, 80.3 Career Passer Rating
Voting: Received 6/6 Required Votes (100%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2006[/size][/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2905151]1. Bryan McCloud (RB)[/url]
Time and time again it seems that all it takes is a great offensive line to turn any old running back into a seemingly unstoppable first round draft pick so it isn't easy to get into the hall of fame as a running back. Because the run game seems so much more based on how the offensive line is performing rather than the running back, not to many people would spend a top three draft pick on a running back but that's what the Omaha Blaze (which became the Sim Bowl winning Tampa Bay Venom) did in 1972 when they took McCloud third overall in the 1972 draft.
One of the most dominant running backs to ever grace the field, he only averaged fewer than 4 yards a carry in one season, 1983, in which he was no longer the starter and was only averaging one attempt per game. Besides the twilight of his career, he delivered a season of 1,000 yards or more rushing ten consecutive seasons and broke 1,500 yards rushing five times including his rookie season in which he rushed for 1,681 yards, a feat he was never able to outdo.
During his time for the Blaze/Venom, McCloud won seven division titles and three conference titles. He is a two time Sim Bowl winning running back and still rushed for 4.6 yards a carry during his only Sim Bowl loss in 1975.
Often imitated, but never quite matched or outdone, McCloud serves as the blueprint for what any aspiring running attack could ever hope to accomplish. He is welcome here in the Phenom Hall of Fame.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 3 (1972)
Retired: 1984 (12 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3,070 Rushing Attempts for 15,145 Yards, 4.9 Average Gain Per Rush, 145 Rushing TDs, 80 Long Rushing
Voting: Received 10/6 Required Votes (167%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2573292]2. Dexter Schmarr (DT)[/url]
In the 1960's, the British Columbia Owls went on a since-unmatched run of championship appearences and victories marked by exceptional defensive play an one of the most legendary quarterbacks of all time. The reason why three of that era's defensive linemen have made it into the Hall of Fame before Joe Carroll has is simple: any player who cracks 100 career sacks is amazing. When he's part of the reason your team is synonomous with "conference title game" and "Sim Bowl", you end up in the Hall of Fame.
Born March 1, 1943 as Dyrek Schmarr, the son of two poor Russian immigrants, Schamarr, Schmarr quickly became Americanized in the warm sun of San Jose California where his favorite past-times including sunbathing, picking up chicks, and playing football. Schmarr became a nationally acclaimed defensive playing in high school which propelled him to enough fame to get him selected 42nd overall in the 1966 draft. Little did he know that he was an instrumental cog being installed into what would become a dynasty.
His first season went by quietly enough with no sacks but fair tackling and promise. Then, in his second season, he managed 18 sacks and 4 forced fumbles! From that point on he had at least eight or more sacks on the season every year until he began to decline in 1976 only garnering four sacks from that time until his retirement in 1979. By that time however, he had already accumulated 108 career sacks, 26 forced fumbles, had won a Sim Bowl, had won four conference titles, 7 division titles in a row and had already cememted his resume to be alongside his fellow greats in the FHFL Phenom Hall of Fame.
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 42 (1966)
Retired: 1979 (13 Seasons)
Career Stats: 108 Career Sacks, 26 Forced Fumbles
Voting: Received 8/6 Required Votes (133%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2005[/size][/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2457134]1. Warren Draper (DE)[/url]
During the British Columbia Owls' legendary run in the 1960's a lot of talent came and went, many are in this Hall of Fame and many more probably will end up here before it is all said and done, but if anyone embodied the heart of the team more than the QB himself, it was Warren Draper.
Brown to decently well-off and well-tempered parents in a good neighborhood in Bayonne, New Jersey, Draper's first love ironically enough was actually chess. Considered a child prodigy and a grand-master at the age of sixteen, it wasn't until he tried out for the school football team on a dare to impress a girl (who'd become his future wife, June Draper) that is entire life changed. Discovering natural athleticism and an ability to beat his opponents more his his mind than with his body, Draper initially began playing as an offensive linemen and then found his natural groove on the defensive side of the ball as a Defensive End. No matter if the opposing linemen were bigger than he was or more agile, Draper's uncanny ability to see his opponents moves before they'd even thought of them made him nearly impossible to defend.
The chess scholarships suddenly paled in comparison to the opportunities suddenly opened to him by football. He played for North Dakota University as a part of the class of 1964 and fell to the second round of the 1964 draft as many scouts wondered aloud if Draper was committed to football or if he'd eventually go back to playing chess. Many of those doubters are not in the Hall of Fame.
Starting the year he was drafted until 1969 Draper was a part of the longest streak of Sim Bowl appearances in FHFL history being a part of two winning teams in 1964 and 1966. He remained on the team long enough to see them go back to the title game in 1971 although they did not win and helped them win one last division championship before retiring in 1972. One of the few players to be there in British Columbia from the start of their dynasty until the bitter end across two owners, Draper has earned respect among his peers and the world. We proudly welcome him and his astonishing 131 sack, 37 forced fumble stat line to the FHFL Phenom Hall of Fame!
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 36 (1964)
Retired: 1976 (13 Seasons)
Career Stats: 131 Career Sacks, 37 Forced Fumbles.
Voting: Received 13/7 Required Votes (186%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2432157]2. Jerome Brown (DT)[/url]
If you were a quarterback playing between the years of 1962 and 1972 and found yourself staring across the field at #90 be assured that somewhere, somehow, someway you are going to find yourself looking up at the lights after a spectacular, magnificent, glorious, drive-killing thing we football folk like to call a sack. Born December 12, 1939 on a frigid night in Cleveland, Ohio, Jerome Brown was drafted by the Philadelphia Whiners in 1962 before being traded to the British Columbia Owls in a blockbuster trade in 1964.
"Ever since I was young," Brown explained in his last televised interview before his death in 2005. "All I wanted to do was sack the quarterback."
The Owls went to the Sim Bowl the entire time he was with the Owls from 1965 to 1969 and they won the big one two of those times in 1964 and 1965. In what will probably go down as one of the most stacked and profoundly talented dynasties of all time, Brown spent the rest of his life fondly reminiscing about being a part of the longest streak of Sim Bowl appearances by a team in the history of the game.
"I don't think they'll ever break that one," he chuckled when asked about it by SDPN in 2001. "The game has gotten so fancy now but we set a lot of records back then they probably won't ever touch."
Brown spent his final three seasons on the St. Louis Lions where he accumulated another 27 sacks and three forced fumbles before hanging it up for good. He went on the found the charity the Brown Foundation which benefits children in underprivileged neighborhoods who want to be groomed to become draftable FHFL talent.
Brown passed away quietly in his sleep at age 65 on May 23, 2005 in his home in Cleveland leaving behind a widow, seven children, fifteen grandchildren, a dog and 126 career sacks. Now he will leave behind a much-deserved Hall of Fame Ring.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 3 (1962)
Retired: 1972 (11 Seasons)
Career Stats: 126 Career Sacks, 28 Forced Fumbles.
Voting: Received 12/7 Required Votes (171%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3332598]3. Tim Tebow (QB)[/url]
Born February 11, 1961 in little-known Massillon, Ohio, the Tim Tebow of the FHFL universe was an average-at-best third string quarterback throughout high school and college graduating in 1984 from the College of Boston. Initially, Tebow didn't intend to even enter the draft under the presumption he would not be selected. A friend was able to encourage him to give it a try and after an average outing in the combine he was pleasantly surprised to belected as the sixth quarterback in the draft (albeit in the round five) behind such greats as Joe McKoy, Kelly Cindrich and Matt Boreland (all Sim Bowl winners).
After disappointing outings his first few seasons, Tebow began to develop at an absurd pace. He'd put graduate school on hold for this and after coming so far did not want to simply be flushed out in free agency in the offseason. Improving week-to-week at a rate never seen before in FHFL he earned contract extension after contract extension taking the team to the Sim Bowl for the first time in 1987 off a wild card slot in the playoffs although they lost. They won the division the following year and made it to the playoffs yet again the following year in a wildcard but did not progress any further until 1990 when Tebow led the Federalists to the first of many championships 27-14 over the Virginia VacVigilantes after a 13-3 season. To silence any doubters, he went 12-4 the next season and won the championship again against the Orlando Flippers 13-7. By 1992 he was posting passer ratings in the high eighties.
The next season the repeated their 12-4 record but "only" won the division. They "made up" for this by going 12-4 and 10-6 the following two seasons going back to the title game back to back once again. The first of these two Sim Bowl berths they won. Then, "just because", Tebow won his final title in 1996 against Cleveland bringing his total ring count to four out of six Sim Bowl appearences before having quieter runs in Washington and Arizona to top off his career.
For a fifth round pick to possibly the greatest QB of FHFL history? Not bad. Not bad at all.
Drafted: Round 5, Pick 154 (1984)
Retired: 1998 (15 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3339/5724 Passing for 37,897 Yards, 58.3% Completion Rate, 200 Passing TDs, 176 INT, 77.1 Career QBR
Voting: Received 11/7 Required Votes (157%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2004[/size][/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3332676]1. Joe McKoy (QB)[/url]
Few who ever saw Joe McKoy play in his professional career from 1984 even until the bitter end in 1997 would dispute his place here. Born April 16, 1961 in Irvington, New Jersey, everyone from the schoolyard to his first football team in middle school and onward knew that Joe was going to become something special. With all of the intangibles you could dream of in a young quarterback and an arm to boot, he was on every scout's wishlist coming out of the State University of Ohio after a stellar career.
when the New England Soviets happened upon the first overall pick in the 1984 draft, Joe was a no-brainer as the Soviets were in need of a longterm quarterback, but no one could imagine just how much of a sure bet McKoy would be.
In fourteen seasons with the Soviets, McKoy won three world championships to match his three conference championships going 3/3 in Sim Bowls which is unprecedented. His first World Championship came in only his second season. He won four division titles to boot, was a part of nine division title winning teams and entered the playoffs four other times on a wildcard winning two of his world titles without even capturing the division!
Although relegated to a backup role by his reitrement in 1997, he took home his last division title that year as part of a great retirement for one the greatest quarteracks of all time. McKoy also finished above 40,000 career passing yards and a career QBR above eighty, both rare feats in the modern passing era.
For fourteen years in Soviet red, there was something to be feared about the name McKoy.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 1 (1984)
Retired: 1997 (14 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3909/6525 Passing for 42,362 Yards, 59.9% Completion Rate, 257 Passing TDs, 174 INT, 81.1 Career QBR
Voting: Received 5/5 Required Votes (100%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2731663]2. Baylon Brees (QB)[/url]
New Orleans has the honor of being the first team to ever have not only two of their franchise's quarterbacks in the Hall of Fame, but Brew Dees's and Baylon Brees's careers literally ended and began right after one another giving New Orleans twenty-eight years of uninterrupted Hall of Fame Quarterback play which is a feat in its self.
Born December 6, 1945 in the sun of Honolulu Hawaii only four years after the Attack on Pearl Harbor and only a few months removed from the Japanese surrender, Brees grew up in the post-war boom seeing his country go from a terrible war originating from an attack on his birthplace to struggle for a sense of normalcy in the midst of social upheaval and change. Graduating from Southern California University five years after the assasination of John F. Kennedy, Brees was the product of a country working and striving to be better. And he was.
Baylon Brees played a total of twelve seasos and won a division title every season he played except one although he never won a conference or world title. He finished with a completion rate aove 60%, finished fourteenth all time in passing touchdowns and a QBR near 90. Brees was as good as money but his failure to capture the conference or a world title is likely a product of the era of great quarterbacking that was the seventies. One of the greatest QBs never to win the big won, Brees has an even more important honor that few Sim Bowl winning QBs have: an induction into the Hall of Fame by his peers. A great choice to enter the Phenom Hall of Fame.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 1 (1969)
Retired: 1980 (12 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3081/5102 Passing for 38,721 Yards, 60.4% Completion Rate, 238 Passing TDs, 131 INT, 88.9 Career QBR
Voting: Received 5/5 Required Votes (100%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2519162]3. Andrew Wiggin (QB)[/url]
A product of the Great Depression, long before the possibility of becoming a million dollar athlete even factored into the equation of football as a career choice, one man helped make the FHFL what it is today.
Born to parents who'd lost it all in the stock market on December 4, 1934 in Ballinger, Texas, Andrew Wiggin worked his way through school to graduate in 1956 with full honors. With the world at his fingertips, Wiggin decided what he wanted to do with his life is play football. The unfortunate thing was that at the time, no FHFL existed...
With a history as long and as successful as the Cyclons franchise, it comes as little surprise that another one of their players from days past ends up here in these hallowed halls. Although he passed away in 1996 from heart disease, the Offensive Rookie of the Year Award was named in his honor and although he came up short in the only Sim Bowl he ever made it to, he has an honor that no one else will ever be able to take away from him: being the first draft pick ever in FHFL history as the league had its humble start in the 1960. Already a former mvp for the West Coast Football League, a precursor to the FHFL, Wiggin entered the league at age 26 and was out ten years later at age 36.
His professional career however, lasted for fifteen years. With five seasons under his belt in the precursor to the FHFL, there were little rookie-doubts about this man who had amassed quite a career by his mid-twenties when he was drafted first overall. The Cyclons knew what they had and it almost took them all the way although Wiggin did accomplish the division crown eight times out of ten seasons played.
Even though he had a relatively short career, Wiggin threw for very nearly 40,000 yards in that time. His 313 Passing TDs still stand as the 4th highest career total of all time, and his 92.6 Career QBR, 11th of All-Time, will likely never be surpassed.
It's hard to have the resume to get into the Hall of Fame without a World Championship ring, but consider Wiggin the archetype and hope that if one of your rookies wins the award blessed with his name, some of that Wiggin magic rubs off on them too...
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 1 (1996)
Retired: 1970 (15 Seasons/10 Seasons in the FHFL)
Career Stats: 2784/4798 Passing for 39,342 Yards, 50.4% Completion Rate, 313 Passing TDs, 158 INT, 92.6 Career QBR
Voting: Received 5/5 Required Votes (100%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3332676]4. Singor Galvin (RB)[/url]
Yet another New Orleans great enshrined in the Hall of Fame, few would argue against the 28th overall pick from 1979's resume. Born July 11th, 1956 in Portland, as a particularly energetic youth he gained a reputation for constantly running. Getting the hint his mother signed him up for his first football team as a running back in the hopes that he'd do more running on the field and less up and down the stairs at home. Little did she know how her investment would pay off!
Impressing from that point on, Galvin was scouted by Michigan State College and graduated in 1979 finding himself drafted to the stories team from New Orleans. With over 15,000 career rushing yards, 94 career rushing TDs and a 4.7 career rushing average over an eleven season career, Galvin undoubtedly was one of the best to ever come out of the backfield. He has eight division titles to back up his claim although Galvin was a victim to the period of time in which New Orleans, despite ruling their division, seemingly could not advance to the Sim Bowl. His own individual statistics in spite of this speak for themselves and Galvin goes down as one of the best never to win the big one...
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 28 (1979)
Retired: 1991 (11 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3254 Rushing Attempts for 15,303 Yards, 4.7 Average Gain Per Rush, 94 Rushing TDs, 88 Long Career Rushing
Voting: Received 5/5 Required Votes (100%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2003[/size][/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2427116]1. Brew Drees (QB)[/url]
Sometimes we take the game too seriously and it's easy to get caught up on a funny sounding name. Thing is that the Brewmaster of the French Quarter, Brew Drees, was anything but a laughing matter. In an era nowadays (at the time of writing this) where having thirty or forty thousand yards career passing is a laudable goal, it's easy to feel like we all missed out on having a player like Drees on our team. With one of the top career quarterback ratings of all time at 92.8 over 16 years even in his waning years in his late thirties as a backup he still finished his last two seasons with quarterback ratings over seventy. At 37/38 years of age.
Born February 21, 1935 in sunny Los Angeles California, Drees was the son of a wealthy family and had the ability to go into any occupation of his choosing. Rather than coast through life on his family's fortune, Drees purposefully went to obscure Alabama College. He went to Alabama College because he had only played a year of football in high school and wanted to play professionally. Unable to get drafted in any league he approached, he was finally entered into the inagural FHFL draft in 1960 where he was taken second overall by the team that would house him for all sixteen years that he played, the New Orleans REBELS. Once he had time and room to shine under the bright lights, Drees seemed to ascend into one fo the best quarterbacks in FHFL history seemingly overnight with pinpoint accuracy and the distinction of breaing the 50k career passing yard mark.
Although Drees did not win a world title with the REBELS or even get to a conference game, he won the team their first division title in 1965, repeated in 1966 and led the team to another division title in 1968 in a season shortened by injury. Although he was usurped as started the following year for Baylon Brees and only started fifteen games in his final three seasons, his division title win in 1968 began a ten year streak of division titles for New Oreleans, a feat that may not soon be matched.
For bringing California love to Burbon Street and putting together one of the most ridiculous stat lines in FHFL history we proudly welcome Brew Dees as the first ever nominated member of the FHFL Phenom Hall of Fame enshrined by a landslide.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 2 (1960)
Retired: 1972 (16 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3748/6190 Passing for 50,216 Yards, 60.5% Completion Rate, 347 Passing TDs, 182 INT, 92.8 Career QBR
Voting: Received 14/10 Required Votes (140%)
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2519162]2. Jim Lane (QB)[/url]
Born in Los Angeles, California on June 9, 1941 to a single mother and as an only child, Jim Lane not only excelled in sports under the pressure of his hardship, but in academics as well as he became determined to rescue himself and his mother from their surroundings. After a stellar college career in California Multitechnic University, Lane opted not to declare as a Junior and instead not only was drafted first overall in 1965 (picked ahead of Fod Fitzgerald Sr.) but graduated with honors with a degree in biochemistry.
Playing all but one season for the same franchise as it changed from the Buffalo Tigers to the Buffalo Bigots, to the Washington Capitolists where he made his sole Sim Bowl appearence in 1975. Although he never won a championship, he is one of few QBs to throw over 40,000 yards and his career QBR of 90.2 is one that we may never see again. One of the great QBs not to win a championship and one I had the fortune to play with as I introduced myself to the game, Jim Lane, we salute you and welcome you the FHFL Phenom Hall of Fame!
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 1 (1965)
Retired: 1977 (13 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3387/5561 Passing for 44,183 Yards, 51.7% Completion Rate, 254 Passing TDs, 147 INTs, 90.2 Career QBR
Voting: Received 13/10 Required Votes (130%)
[align=center][size=5]FHFL Hall of Fame Expansion Class of 2002[/size]
* These players were the stat leaders as of 2001 and were automatically inducted. They were not voted on by franchise owners. This was done so that the first hall of fame class to be voted on could feature slightly more contemporary players. There is an asterisk next to their hall of fame induction, but not really.[/align]
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2573308]Fod Fitzgerald Sr. (QB)[/url]
Born August 27, 1943 in Shattuck, OK, Fod Fitzgerald has become the posterboy for the high passing "days of old". Before his son came into the league to get a ring of his own, there was his namesake who finished his career with stats we will likely never see again with the modern rules of the FHFL. Drafted with the seventh overall pick in 1965 and finishing with an undheard of seven Sim Bowl championships, he turned the Chicago KnightCaps, then known as the Green Bay Goblins, owner phen0m into a legend. Serving fourteen seasons and not missing a single game in ten seasons. Fitzgerald also holds the distinction of being the all-time passing yards and all-time passing touchdown leader-- records that may never be broken due to changes in the game.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 7 (1965)
Retired: 1979 (14 Seasons)
Career Stats: 3996/6481 Passing for 57,488 yards, 61.7% Completion Rate, 382 Passing TDs, 173 INT, 98.9 QBR
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2933627]Dave Brown (RB)[/url]
Born March 10, 1951 in Binghamton, NY, Dave Brown served all 14 seasons for the San Francisco Cyclons, then known as the San Jose Cyclons. With only a single loosing season while he was on the roster in San Jose, Brown helped bring SJ 9 division championships, four conference championships and Sim Bowl appearances and one Sim Bowl Championship. Retiring in 1973, Brown remains the All-Time Rushing Yards leader by nearly 1,000 yards.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 16 (1973)
Retired: 1986 (14 Years)
Career Stats: Started 159/188 Games, 3,175 Rushing Attempts for 16,421 Yards, 5.2 Average Gain Per Rush, 111 Rushing TDs, Lost 33/52 Fumbles, 79 Long Rushing
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2427455]Richard Coakley (RB)[/url]
Born May 12, 1937 in Kingston, PA, when Richard Coakley retired from the game in 1971, he still rushed better than most active running backs today. A former second round pick in the 1960 draft, Coakley was a part of the legendary and eternally-feared phen0m franchise whose stats still reverberate throughout the FHFL today. The all-time rushing TD leader eclipsing the #2 person on that list by 100 rushing touchdowns, Coakley played for thireteen seasons and was still starting as late as 1968 before he finally hung up his cleets in 1972 after a brief stint with the San Francisco Great Whites currently known as the Anahiem Cougars.
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 45 (1960)
Retired: 1971 (13 Years)
Career Stats: Started 139/170 Games, 2,789 Rushing Attempts for 13,266 Yards, 4.8 Average Gain Per Rush, 245 Rushing TDs, Lost 24/53 Fumbles, 69 Long Rushing
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2685561]Alonzo Vactor (WR)[/url]
Born September 23, 1945 in Spokane, Washington, Alonzo Vactor debuted for New Orleans in 1968 as the 23rd overall pick. Making his imprint on three decades of football from 1968 to 1983, Vactor remains the All-Time Receiving Yards Leader with a blistering 18,001 career receiving yards. In his seven years as a starter, the New Orleans REBELS never had a loosing season and won six out of seven division championships. With hands like glue and perhaps some of the most dangerous legs ever to bless a wide receiver, Vanzo will forever be known as one of the best receivers of all time.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 23 (1968)
Retired: 1983 (15 Years)
Career Stats: Started 127/228 Games, 1,279/2101 Receiving for 18,001 Yards, 60.9% Reception Rate, 6,423 Yards AFter Catch, 5.0 AVerage YAC, 117 Receiving TDs, 69 Dropped Passes
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2427456]Winston Wolf (RB/KR/PR)[/url]
If Leo Harper is going to be in the Hall of Fame for being tied #1 for career Kick Return Touchdowns at seven with this man, it would be a crime if Winston Wolf weren't a part of this eternal hall. Wolf not only is tied for the #1 Kick Returns for Touchdowns but is the outright leader in the same category for punt returns at 7. Born March 1st, 1937 in Detroit, after being drafted in 1960 by the team that would one day become the Anaheim Cougars, Winston Wolf was an above average running back who perhaps didn't get anough snaps in his time with only 10.9 attempts per game in his career. Besides having nearly 7,000 career rushing yards and 47 rushing touchdowns however, what Winston Wolf will always be known for is his special teams ability. With 7 Punt Return TDs and 7 Kick Return TDs, both records, after retiring in 1969, no player in the FHFL has managed to touch his record as the all-time best special teams returner of all time.
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 38 (1960)
Retired: 1969 (10 Years)
Career Stats: Started 113/134 Games, 1,455 Rushing Attempts for 6,980 Yards, 4.8 Average Gain Per Rush, 47 Rushing TDs, Lost 12/20 Fumbles, 66 Long Rushing, 208 Kick Returns for 6,172 Kick Return Yards, 29.7 Average Kick Return, 7 Kick Return TDs, 102 Long Kick Return, 1 Kick Return Fumble, 235 Punt REturns for 3,097 Yards, 13.2 Average Punt Return, 7 Punt Return TDs, 73 Long Punt Return, 36 Long Punt Return
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2685547]Leo Harper (WR/PR/KR)[/url]
Born June 27, 1945 in Cortland, New York, Leo Harper played eleven seasons in the FHFL, all for the Phoenix Outlaws, currently known as the New York Nephilim. He finished as a fairly average receiver, but became a monster special teams player with thirteen special teams touchdowns-- seven career kick return touchdowns, and six career punt return touchdowns. Coming in at second place for all-time special teams touchdowns and tying for first place in all-time kick return TDs.
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 56 (1967)
Retired: 1978 (11 Years)
Career Stats: Started 68/176 Games, 270 Kick Returns for 7,187 Yards, 26.6 Kick Return Average, 7 Kick Return TDs, 102 Long Kick Return, 430 Punt Returns for 4,207 Yards, 6 Punt Return TDs, 77 Long Punt Return
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2431377]Joey Middleton (K)[/url]
Born August 24, 1939 although soon to be overshadowed by Minnesota's Barry Bruno once he become eligible, the man right under him was no slouch. Hailing from San Antonio Texas and going 35th overall in the second round, Joey Middleton put in fifteen years of service between the Providence Rhodies and retiring from the Newark Urban Slumlords. Although he completed what some might consider to be a low 82.2% of his field goals, he's firmly in second place in between still-active Barry Bruno and long retired Russ Morris. Middleton made 378/460 field goals in his career and missed only five of his 468 extra point attempts. When looking at the all-time stats on kickers, Middleton stands the test of time as one of the most prolific.
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 35 (1962)
Retired: 1976 (15 Years)
Career Stats: Started 235/235 Games, 378/460 FGA, 82.2% Field Goal Rate for 1,134 field goal points, 55 Career Long, 473/468 XPA for 473 PAT points, 98.9% XP Rate
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2970072]Anthony Sergienko (P)[/url]
One of the most underappeciated positions in the game, is the punter, and while punter Emil Jefferson will likely take the shine away from this steel-toed legend, for the moment there is no punter more suited for the hall of fame than Anthony Sergienko. A former 3rd round pick from Oklahoma University, Sergienko was born on May 29, 1952 in Rockford, IL. He spent all fifteen years of his career playing for the Hamilton TigerCats who eventually became the Memphis Stiners and are now known as the Norfolk Jedi. Although many attribute Sergienko's success as the #2 punt yard leader in FHFL history to Hamilton's storied struggles in stabilizing their franchise, the fact remains that Sergienko has 69,773 punting yards which is more yards than the amount of yards thrown by the all-time passing yard leader in teir career. 50% of 1,595 of Sergienko's punts either were touchbacks or pinned the opponent in the 20. Sergienko is the all time leader of punts pinning the opponent into their own 20 with 681 of such punts, a record that may not ever be broken.
Drafted: Round 3, Pick 65 (1975)
Retired: 1975 (15 Years)
Career Stats: Started 239/239 Games, 1,595 Punts for 69,773 Punting Yards, 43.7 Career Average Punt, 681 IN20, 119 Touchbacks, 67 Long Punting
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2428596]Cortez Times (DT)[/url]
There are plenty of defensive tackles to be afraid of each and every season, but it may be a long time before one terrifies offenses quite like Cortez Times. The all-time sack leader with 176 career sacks and 28 career forced fumbles was born November 29, 1936 in Beaufort, South Carolina. After attending the State University of Alabama, Times was drafted in the seventh round of the 1960 draft by the Seattle (now San Francisco) Cyclons. In fifteen long years, Times made the league regret letting him slip to the seventh round as perhaps one of the greatest draft steals of all time. Times spent the majority of his storied career with the Cyclons before a brief one-season run for the Edmonton Mall Rats (now New Jersey Sharks) where at age 37 he still managed to come up with five sacks and one forced fumble cementing him as one of the greatest seventh round picks to ever live.
Drafted: Round 7, Pick 219 (1960)
Retired: 1974 (15 Years)
Career Stats: Started 221/221 Games, 176 Sacks, 28 Career Forced Fumbles
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2431173]Jamie Wells (S)[/url]
Teams pride themselves on their secondaries nowadays, but no matter who is on your roster today, it may be a long time before we see another Jamie Wells, if ever. Wells, a 19th overall pick in the first round by the Seattle (now San Fransisco) Cyclons in 1961. Drafted out of Southern Louisiana University after being born on Logan, Utah, Wells played 12 years for the Cyclons in which he became the all-time leader in overall pass defenses. With 41 Broken-Up Passes and 60 outright interceptions, Wells garnered 101 overall defended passes and 9 defensive touchdowns to become one of the biggest banes to the pass game Quarterbacks in the FHFL have ever had the displeasure of matching up against. Wells is the all-time interception leader with 60.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 19 (1961)
Retired: 1972 (12 Years)
Career Stats: Started 167/185 Games, 41 Broken-Up Passes, 60 Interceptions for 983 Interceptions Yards, 97 Long Intercepted, 101 overall pass defenses, 9 Defensive Touchdowns
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3300038]Alvin Gibson (CB)[/url]
How on earth did the all-time leader in broken-up passes end up becoming a journeyman? Well, that's exactly what happened with Alvin Gibson who was drafted by the Saskatchewan Yeti (currently San Antonio Silver Hawks) 30th overall in the 1982 draft playing the first three of their seasons there only gaining three broken-up passes in his stay there. Sasketchewan then became Milwauke and in his final four years with the franchise he broke up 19 passes! Miraculously, he was traded to the Arizona Desert Shaman in 1990 and from then until 1992, broke up 11 more passes. Then, somehow, he was traded again to the new Sasketchewan team, the Chimeras (now Edmonton Fire Ants) of an unrelated team history of their original draft team and stuck it in the faces of the two teams that traded him with 13 more broken passes before calling it a career. Oh, and he has 45 career interceptions for 709 yards and 7 defensive touchdowns. Inducted the first year he was eligible he is a definite symbol of why the Hall of Fame is definetely worth the investment of time.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 30 (1982)
Retired: 1996 (15 Year)
Career Stats: Started 180/224 Games, 9 Sacks, 47 Broken-Up Passes, 45 Interceptions for 709 Interception Yards, 90 long intercepted, 92 overall defended passes, 7 defensive touchdowns.
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2685585]Bob Baker (CB)[/url]
In twelve years, Bob Baker played for what would eventually become the current Tennessee Shawnees and in that time, built up a reputation as perhaps one of the most threatening defensive players of all time-- and he was a cornerback. The all-time career leader in defensive touchdowns with 11 along with 13 career sacks, 1 forced fumble 21 broken up passes and 42 interceptions, even though he was a shadow of himself in 1979 when the Winnipeg Jets acquired him from the waiver wire it was almost out of respect for the player who scored more touchdowns than any defensive player in FHFL history.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 8 (1979)
Retired: 1979 (12 Years)
Career Stats: Started 79/185 Games, 13 career sacks, 21 broken-up passes, 42 interceptiosn for 894 interception yards, 86 long intercepted, 62 defended passes overall, 1 forced fumble, 11 defensive touchdowns
[url=http://football.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=3050058]Steve Saenz (DE)[/url]
Quarterbacks everywhere breathed a sigh of relief in 1990 when Steve Saenz stepped away from the game of football. The all-time leader in forced fumbles and a master of the art of the sack with 120 in his career, Saenz was drafted by the Philadelphia Whiners (currently the Louisville Leprechauns) in 1976, the year in which he gained 8 sacks and the first of many forced fumbles. In his third year, 1978, Saenz not only registered 16 sacks, a career high, but also registered an unheard of 10 forced fumbles in a single-season, also a career high. From there he had brief stints in Arizona and then the Miami Monsoon which is currently the Las Vegas Outlaws until he retired as a free agent in 1990. Make sure you have both hands on the football guys.
Drafted: Round 1, Pick 15 (1976)
Retired: 1989 (12 Years)
Career Stats: Started 189/190 Games, 120 Career Sacks, 1 Interception, 39 Career Forced Fumbles
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luminafire
October 04, 2016 at 05:57AM View BBCode
Expansion class is a work in progress will be done in the next few days and we should have a ballot prepared for the first voteable class
luminafire
October 04, 2016 at 09:12AM View BBCode
The 2001 Expansion Class is now complete. all players who retired in 1996 or earlier are eligible for nomination this season. Time to do your research guys! Help me build a ballot. All franchises have three nominations that all of the league will have to vote on. Post it in the nomination topic.
max_fischer
October 04, 2016 at 05:31PM View BBCode
This is impressive work, lumina. Thank you for putting this together!
luminafire
October 04, 2016 at 11:59PM View BBCode
Some typos I need to fix, but all-in-all, not bad for an insomniac's night's work!
ggoforth
October 12, 2016 at 01:45PM View BBCode
Is this the complete list of who is in the HOF already?
luminafire
This is why I created an "expansion class" with all-time stat leaders so we weren't starting from zero. It's likely that several of the original hall of famers are still included, but I don't have any way of knowing.
If anyone has a copy of the old Hall of Fame, please let me know.
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October 12, 2016 at 01:54PM View BBCode
The topic with von's old hall of fame was accidentally deleted and I don't know if anyone has a copy. I searched and searched the forum history, it's gone.This is why I created an "expansion class" with all-time stat leaders so we weren't starting from zero. It's likely that several of the original hall of famers are still included, but I don't have any way of knowing.
If anyone has a copy of the old Hall of Fame, please let me know.
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montywop
October 28, 2016 at 11:37PM View BBCode
Excellent work lum! Thanks for taking the time to do this.
nydru18
October 30, 2016 at 11:41AM View BBCode
amazing work Lumina, you make this league incredibly fun, thanks for taking the time to do this, it is greatly appreciated.!!!!
luminafire
December 07, 2016 at 04:42PM View BBCode
Official Guidelines have been updated. Future changes to guidelines will now require a public vote.
luminafire
December 16, 2016 at 01:47AM View BBCode
Hall of Fame has been updated with Class of 2003-2004.
luminafire
February 06, 2017 at 08:55AM View BBCode
FHFL Hall of Fame Class of 2005-2006 has been added.
boraiders34
April 23, 2017 at 04:00PM View formatted
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Awesome work, really appreciate the effort you've put into the Hall of Fame. Makes the league much more enjoyable for those of us who irrationally identify with their computer-generated players.
luminafire
I still owe the much smaller class of 2008 and then I can open voting for the next class. As promised i only took one season offf
April 23, 2017 at 04:22PM View BBCode
:)I still owe the much smaller class of 2008 and then I can open voting for the next class. As promised i only took one season offf
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