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Mick Tingelhoff is the senior committee nominee, and there will be 15 modern era finalists.
Wolf won a Super Bowl while general manager of the Packers in 1996, and also was a longtime player personnel director for the Raiders.
Polian was the GM for the Bills when they made four consecutive Super Bowls, and for the Colts when they won the championship in 2006. He also built the expansion Carolina Panthers,Cheap NFL Jerseys, who made the NFC title game in their second season.
Polian and Wolf were chosen by the Hall of Fame's contributor committee. Inductees will be selected on Jan. 31, the day before the Super Bowl, in Phoenix.
"What an honor!" Wolf said. "I'm overwhelmed. I realize that none of this would be possible without an awful lot of support from a lot of other people. So,Cheap Jerseys From China, for me, this is more an organizational thing than just one individual."
"It's an incredible honor that I never envisioned happening,Discount NFL Jerseys," said Polian, now an analyst for SiriusXM NFL Radio and ESPN.
Wolf resurrected one of the NFL's most storied franchises after arriving in Green Bay late in 1991. Over the next decade, the Packers won three straight NFC Central titles and made back-to-back Super Bowl appearances. They beat New England to win the 1996 championship and lost the next season to Denver.
Wolf's NFL career began as a scout for the Raiders in 1963. He spent 25 seasons in the team's front office during three separate tenures. He was hired as the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers' general manager in 1976 and while that team lost every game in its initial season,Cheap Jerseys Online, it made the NFC championship game by its fourth year.
In a 32-year NFL career with the Chiefs (1978-1982), Bills (1984-1992),Cheap Arizona Cardinals Jerseys, Panthers (1995-97), and Colts (1998-2011), plus two years working for the league office, Polian was considered a key decision maker. He served on the NFL's powerful competition committee.
He also headed up the New York Jets' personnel operations.
CANTON,wholesale nfl jerseys, Ohio (AP) — Former general managers Bill Polian and Ron Wolf were selected Wednesday as contributor finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's class of 2015. |
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