I got an email early Wednesday afternoon from the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which announced 130 modern-era nominees for the class of 2021.
No big deal, I thought.
Then I saw the tweet from the Hall that included an image with three of the first-time nominees: Peyton Manning, Charles Woodson and … Calvin Johnson.
Whoa! They included Calvin in this holy trinity? They literally placed him shoulder-to-shoulder with two of the game’s giants, who are guaranteed locks as first-ballot inductees?
Wow.
I don’t like reading too much into social media. But this was the Hall of Fame, which is very careful about the information it puts out.