Enough is enough. It’s time for the Pro Football Hall of Fame to make things right and induct one of the NFL’s all-time best defensive tackles: the late, great Alex Karras, who played for the Detroit Lions from 1958-70.
As I watched last week’s induction ceremony, one nagging question kept running through my mind: How can Ray Lewis and Randy Moss, who both have seriously checkered pasts, be in the Hall of Fame and Karras likely isn’t because of a gambling incident that happened more than a half-century ago?
Unfortunately, few individual defensive statistics were kept during Karras’ era.