Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. He was passed by Rod Woodson, and Charles Woodson also tied him with 65 interceptions. Football is the ultimate team game, but quarterbacks are the players that are associated with winning the most. “I didn’t even know that day was coming up,” Anderson told Cincinnati.com’s Paul Dehner Jr. in regards to the Hall of Fame senior committee meeting tomorrow to vote for their senior nomination. Support for former Bengals’ Ken Anderson and Ken Riley exists despite issues with Hall of Fame voting The voting process for the Hall of Fame really hurts the possibility of … That’s the description of a transcendent player, and transcendent players usually end up in the Hall of Fame. Is 2019 the year Ken Anderson makes the Pro Football Hall of Fame? Vote on who you think will win. It doesn’t get a lot of respect,” Anderson said. The longer players have to wait, the harder it is for them to get in. “I’ll be working out. At least until much more time has passed, that is. They are all Hall of Famers, and many of them were first ballot. “It always puzzled me why his name hasn’t come up yet,” Gosselin confessed about Anderson. Hobson explains that process: The expanded senior class announced Wednesday is a product of what the Hall calls a “blue ribbon panel,” of 25 members that consisted of 13 Hall voters (including Gosselin, Pompei and Kaufman) and a dozen others either current head coaches (Bill Belichick), former head coaches (Dick LeBeau and John Madden), former personnel gurus (Ozzie Newsome, Ron Wolf, Bill Polian, Ernie Accorsi, Carl Peterson), a former league office official (Joel Bussert), NFL historians (Joe Horrigan and Chris Willis) and NFL.com’s Elliott Harrison. “What are we waiting for? “I don’t get too excited about it. I vote for those two guys every time.”, “You can be sure I’ll be giving Mr. Riley any kind of support I can,” fellow Hall of Fame voter Ira Kaufman. Anyone who doesn’t vote for them because they didn’t win a Super Bowl is being unfair. The now 70-year-old Anderson has been a Hall of Fame finalist twice. Of course, neither Bengal was included in this class despite having every reason to also be included. And Anderson. Ken Anderson on Hall of Fame neglect: ‘it doesn’t cross my mind’. I don’t know if it’s different with the senior committee, I don’t know the thought process of what they go through.”. We can only hope that eventually both of these guys get their jackets and an opportunity to make their speech. “I guess the only time I was disappointed was the first time I was eligible, and I got into the final 15 and didn’t make it, and then it was disappointing. “There’s so many more candidates, every year you go in there and I feel worse for the 14 guys we don’t pick than the one we do.”. The Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2018 was enshrined just over two weeks ago in Canton, Ohio. The thought process Anderson referred to is the senior committee going through all the former players who have waited 20 or more years for a chance at football immortality, and eventually selecting 15 of them as finalists. Sooner or later, Anderson’s name will be called...right? Rick Gosselin told Geoff Hobson of Bengals.com, Bengals at Eagles fantasy starts and sits, Bengals at Eagles Week 3 game preview: Soaring to new heights. Voting for players of older generations obviously has an emotional dynamic where empathy creeps into the process.