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Kiszla: Free Randy Gradishar! Pro Football Hall of Fame voters holding him hostage is a travesty.

Free Randy Gradishar!

After being snubbed far too many times to count for too many years to fathom, forced to stand outside, his nose pressed against the glass of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, hasn’t the leader of the Orange Crush been held hostage by unreasonable disappointment long enough?

As a diplomat experienced at negotiating with hostile foes, the daughter of a football coach and a minority stakeholder in her beloved Broncos, Condoleezza Rice needs to tackle this task:

Rescue Gradishar from football purgatory.

Secure him a gold jacket from Canton, Ohio.

“I’m part of the Orange Crush generation,” Rice said last week, after being introduced by the Waltons as a member of the team’s new ownership group.