When will Jerry Kramer be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame?

I love football, I love packer football, I love packer football from the 60.s...I will never visit the hall of fame until Mr. Kramer gets his due..

KFBASHLAND wrote:

I love football, I love packer football, I love packer football from the 60.s...I will never visit the hall of fame until Mr. Kramer gets his due..

I understand your support of Kramer. However, by vowing not to visit the HOF, you are merely punishing yourself. Every football fan should visit the HOF. It is particularly enjoyable as a Packer fan.

Rick wrote:

He (Kramer) is the reason I am an unabashed Packers nut!
I saw somewhere they (HOF voters) felt like there were too many Packer greats from that ear in the Hall and Kramer was the odd man out. Paul Zimmerman from SI said that.
I don't believe it.

Paul Zimmerman is a douchebag who knows nothing about football

I think Kramer pretty much shot himself in the foot on this multiple times. He was the first player to really effectively market himself for after-football careers, but he wrote a lot during what even he says was his "I love myself" phase, which according to him ended long ago (like telling Frank Sinatra how to sing), but seems to continue. He has so pissed on so many of his teammates and coaches, and so marketed the Lombardi line that I'd bet the Hall of Fame fears for what he'd do if he were ever elected. You ought to read all of his self-glorifying books...for example, his "Distant Replay" book, it's essentially how he's so great (down to printing a letter from his ex-wife saying he's a good guy) and running down some of his teammates, which is a continuing theme. He'd said horrible things about Henry Jordan in his "Farewell to Football" boook, but in the "Distant Replay" book he tries to make nice to a guy who's been dead for 20 years and can't respond.

The guy's been married a bunch of times, and finds venues to run down all his ex wives, again see his "Distant Replay" book.

I read a book about all time Packers numbers where the author (a 50 year fan) said essentially that Kramer was a good player but a real jerk to fans.

My dad loved Jerry Kramer as a player, and I have to say he was really, really good. But he's a major jerk, and there are too many people from that era that remember that. I'm betting many of the Packer Hall of Famers are part of why he's not there.

As long as he is not in the HOF, the HOF is a joke. It is not about how many players from a team there are, it is about who the best players were. Frankly, he was a lot better than many that are "enshrined". What a bunch of nonsense.

You belong or you don't...let's quit with the BS that there are too many Packers in the HOF. He belongs, and he belongs before many of the Packer greats that are already inducted...where would Hornung and Taylor be without him? Would Starr have scored that TD in the Ice Bowl...Who would have carried the old man off the field on their shoulders...Put the petty reasoning and jealousy aside and give him his due while he is still alive and can appreciate it. He was the best of the best!

I've said this repeatedly:
Shame on the Hall Of Fame voters!

How can Kramer be a STARTING GUARD on the NFL ALL PRO ROSTER for the 50 YEARS of the NFL
and NOT BE IN THE HALL!?!?!

HERE IS THE ALL-DECADE LIST:
SEE KRAMER and OTHERS NOT IN!
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The NFL 1960s All-Decade Team is a list of all NFL players who have had outstanding performances throughout the 1960s and have been compiled in a fantasy group. The team was selected by voters of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Contents
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* 1 Offense
* 2 Defense
* 3 Special teams
* 4 External links

[edit] Offense
Position Player Team(s) played for College Hall of Famer
Quarterback Sonny Jurgensen Philadelphia Eagles
Washington Redskins Duke Yes
Bart Starr Green Bay Packers Alabama Yes
Johnny Unitas Baltimore Colts Louisville Yes
Half back John David Crow St. Louis Cardinals
San Francisco 49ers Texas A&M No
Paul Hornung Green Bay Packers Notre Dame Yes
Leroy Kelly Cleveland Browns Morgan State Yes
Gale Sayers Chicago Bears Kansas Yes
Full back Jim Brown Cleveland Browns Syracuse Yes
Jim Taylor Green Bay Packers
New Orleans Saints Louisiana State Yes
Split End Del Shofner Los Angeles Rams
New York Giants Baylor No
Charley Taylor Washington Redskins Arizona State Yes
Flanker Gary Collins Cleveland Browns Maryland No
Boyd Dowler Green Bay Packers Colorado No
Tight end John Mackey Baltimore Colts Syracuse Yes
Tackle Bob Brown Philadelphia Eagles
Los Angeles Rams Nebraska Yes
Forrest Gregg Green Bay Packers Southern Methodist Yes
Ralph Neely Dallas Cowboys Oklahoma No
Guard Gene Hickerson Cleveland Browns Mississippi Yes
Jerry Kramer Green Bay Packers Idaho No
Howard Mudd San Francisco 49ers
Chicago Bears Michigan State
Hillsdale No
Center Jim Ringo Green Bay Packers
Philadelphia Eagles Syracuse Yes
[edit] Defense
Position Player Team(s) played for College Hall of Famer
Defensive end Doug Atkins Chicago Bears
New Orleans Saints Tennessee Yes
Willie Davis Green Bay Packers Grambling State Yes
David "Deacon" Jones Los Angeles Rams South Carolina State Yes
Defensive tackle Alex Karras Detroit Lions Iowa No
Bob Lilly Dallas Cowboys Texas Christian Yes
Merlin Olsen Los Angeles Rams Utah State Yes
Linebacker Dick Butkus Chicago Bears Illinois Yes
Larry Morris Chicago Bears Georgia Tech No
Ray Nitschke Green Bay Packers Illinois Yes
Tommy Nobis Atlanta Falcons Texas No
Dave Robinson Green Bay Packers Penn State No
Cornerback Herb Adderley Green Bay Packers
Dallas Cowboys Michigan State Yes
Lem Barney Detroit Lions Jackson State Yes
Bobby Boyd Baltimore Colts Oklahoma No
Safety Eddie Meador Los Angeles Rams Arkansas Tech No
Larry Wilson St. Louis Cardinals Utah Yes
Willie Wood Green Bay Packers USC Yes
[edit] Special teams
Position Player Team(s) played for College Hall of Famer
Punter Don Chandler New York Giants
Green Bay Packers Bacone Indian JC
Florida No
Placekicker Jim Bakken St. Louis Cardinals Wisconsin No

Cheech.....

Excellent list and comment. Perhaps that fact alone is evidence that Kramer belongs. Check out www.notinhalloffame.com They have all those not yet in.

I was born in chicago and from the time i started watching football i hated the bears. the packers have been my team for almost 60 years and i have been through the good times and bad times. Jerry Kramer is and will always be a hall of famer in my book. A real
class man who was the best right guard ever, even John Madden thinks so. Now if the idiots on the voting committee get their heads out of their backside, Jerry
will get the other ring fitting of a one of a kind.

Jerry Kramer should have been put in the hall of fame years ago.
He is a class act and you never heard a bad thing said about him.
If the nominating group would get their heads out of their back side
Mr.Kramer would get the other ring he so deserves

Jerry is a hall of famer in my book. He was instrumental in the Packer success and he deserves it. I sent him a copy of Distant Replay via the Packers and he sent it back to me signed with a nice note. Great man. Thanks Jerry!!!