The two-time Super Bowl winner will eventually be inducted into the Hall, and when he is, those insisting he was entitled to a first-ballot entry will seem just as silly as those who never wanted him to get in.

ESPN's Dan Orlovsky doesn't understand why New York Giants legend Eli Manning wasn't a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

The four-person class is the first since 2005 with fewer than six inductees. Adam Vinatieri also missed out in his first chance.