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Pro Football HOF announces 124 nominees for 2008
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
REPOSITORY STAFF REPORT
CANTON Wide receiver Cris Carter and cornerback Darrell Green are first-year eligible candidates among a list of 124 modern-era players, coaches and contributors on preliminary list of nominees for election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame?s Class of 2008.
Hall of Fame selectors will choose 25 semifinalists, which then will be reduced by a mail ballot to 15 modern-era finalists to be joined by the two senior nominees, Marshall Goldberg and Emmitt Thomas. The Class of 2008 will be selected Feb. 2, the day before Super Bowl XLII.
Other first-year eligible candidates include offensive tackles Tony Boselli, Lomas Brown and Richmond Webb; linebackers Levon Kirkland and Hardy Nickerson; and wide receiver Herman Moore.
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