Derrick Thomas did not make the NFL Hall of Fame again this year. I’m disappointed with the 40 members who vote for not selecting him. What the heck were you thinking????

Here are some key points about Derrick Thomas’ career:
-Nine-time Pro Bowl performer (1989-97).
-A member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s NFL All-Decade Team of the 1990s.
-No NFL player registered more sacks during the decade of the 1990s (116.5).
-Only two players in NFL history own more fumble return TDs (4) and safeties (3).
-Played in 10 postseason games in his 11 seasons with Kansas City.
-With Thomas on the field from 1989-99, Kansas City made seven playoff appearances,
won three AFC West titles and reached the 1993 AFC Championship Game.
-Thomas finished his 11-year NFL career with 45 forced fumbles, 19 fumble recoveries
and seven defensive scores (four touchdowns and three safeties).
-Hall of Fame LB Lawrence Taylor finished his 13-year NFL career with 33 forced fumbles, 12 fumble recoveries and two defensive scores (two TDs and no safeties).
-Thanks to Thomas, Kansas City boasted the league’s best turnover differential (+128)
and the most takeaways (365) during the 1990s and led the NFL in turnover differential
in 1990, 1992, 1995 & 1999.
-Established the NFL single-game sack record with 7.0 sacks vs. Seattle (11/11/90).
-Registered 27 multi-sack games and owns two of the top three games in NFL history.
-Led the NFL with a franchise-record 20.0 sacks in 1990.
-Finished his career with 728 tackles (558 solo), 34 passes defensed and 444 Quarterback pressures.

There are some people who made it who have troubled pasts and who have hurt the game by using drugs and having legal problems while they were playing.

I guess the 40 Hall of Fame voters feel these people are role models.

Also, some of these folks are on TV a lot doing some sports shows and I think this helps. Derrick Thomas died on February 8, 2000. He can’t lobby for it like some do.

Hopefully next year these 40 people will see the light and vote Derrick Thomas to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.