Any player who was a 5x 1st team All Pro belongs in the HOF...Unfortunately for Chuck Howley, the only thing people seem to know about his career, is that he's the only player from a losing team to win Super Bowl MVP...That was just 1 game. More impressive is 6 Pro Bowls & 5 1st team All Pro's...
CHUCK HOWLEY belongs in the PFHOF

Posted by William McCoy on 07/29/2022 @ 02:48am

Chuck Howley should have been in the Pro Football Hall of Fame forty years ago. Five first team All Pro selections, one second team All Pro selection, six pro bowls and the most valuable player in Super Bowl V. The Pro Football Reference Hall of Fame Monitor has rated Howley as the 19th best outside linebacker in pro football history with a rating of 67.58. Indeed, of Howley's contemporaries, (outside linebackers who played mainly in the 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's) only Bobby Bell, Larry Grantham, Chris Hanburger (69.78) and Dave Robinson (69.78) rate above Howley. Dave Wilcox is rated at 48.80 and is over twenty evaluation points below Howley. All but Larry Grantham are in Canton. Translation? When Chuck Howley retired in 1973, only FOUR outside linebackers in pro football history rated better than he, and two (Hanburger and Robinson) by only .2 percentage: less than one percentage point. Howley had 43 turnover recoveries, 25 interceptions and 18 fumble recoveries, second all time for outside linebackers to Jack Ham. Howley was a significant cog in the famed Dallas Cowboy doomsday defense that was consistently one of the best in football during the late 1960's and early 1970's. In the entire history of pro football, the ONLY six time All pro players that can be considered for enshrinement NOT in the Hall of Fame as of the date of this posting (September 2, 2021) is Jim Tyrer; and were it not for the murder of his wife and then suicide (probably due to CTE), Jim Tyrer would have been enshrined years ago. Finally, Chuck Howley saved his best games for the playoffs where he dominated. Larry Czonka, the Hall of Fame fullback for the Miami Dolphins, said that he never saw a quicker recovery than Chuck Howley's interception of Hall of Fame quarterback Bob Griese pass in Super Bowl VI; and in the 1967 playoffs against the Cleveland Browns, Howley chased down and caught All Pro half back Leroy Kelly in the open field, astounding all who were watching. In summary, the Hall of Fame selection committee has neglected the career of an outside linebacker who had more all pro selections than Dave Robinson and more turnovers than ELEVEN outside linebackers currently in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Sports Illustrated named Howley as a member of its All 1960's decade team. The argument that there are too many Tom Landry era Cowboys in Canton simply does not wash. The standard is individual football excellence. Concerning all levels of criteria, Chuck Howley is one of the greatest outside linebackers in NFl history. He should be and must be made a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Posted by Cosme Ripol on 09/2/2021 @ 15:40pm

Historian Ken Crippen argues that Chuck Howley should be in the Hall of Fame. https://www.si.com/nfl/talkoffame/nfl/chuck-howley-and-hall-of-fame

"Chuck Howley is one of the best, if not the best, senior linebacker not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame."

"To date, he has never been a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Looking at the totality of his career, Chuck Howley deserves to have his case heard."

Howley has to be considered one of the leading Senior candidates moving forward.

Posted by FFL on 02/15/2021 @ 21:26pm