brFormer Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman, a Hall of Famer like Irvin, -- the only performer surrounded alliance history to own five Super Bowl rings, and a opener actor aboard all five of those years with the Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers.brbrMy numbers wouldn't have suggested that I should've gotten into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But it's more than that. It's never more or less putting numbers up aboard the embark and saying, "This fellow deserves apt be among the Hall of Fame." ... The stats are only relevant while celebrity wants apt use the stats as an contention as apt why they voted for celebrity alternatively why they didn't ballot for celebrity.brbrBut when you go back and you see along the teams that won those five Super Bowls, he was a mammoth part of those teams that won those five Super Bowls. That's meaningful to me. And having had him aboard my team as three of them, I'm not so sure we would've won any of them if it weren't for him. I'm beautiful adamant nearly the fact that I deem he deserves apt be within and I'm beauteous disappointed that it hasn't happened. But I believe it ambition.brbrPeter King of SI.com namely one of the 44 voters, and deem it alternatively not he's as frustrated with the process and its aftereffects as everybody else. I've talked with Peter aboard a digit of occasions, including 2012 Super Bowl week,meantime I jokingly asked him why Cris Carter didn't make the cut onward I actually knew the results. After the 2012 Hall of Famers were announced and the Super Bowl was over, Peter went behind kin and does what he does every annual -- he tried to explain a process that everybody seems to hate. When that didn't work if his continued participation was worth the difficulty.brbrbrbrIn the last few years, I've lost think of how much people in the game and on the avenue have told me,amid motley ways, "You're an idiot you're incompetent, you stink at this, and how can you depart [fill within the blank] out of the Hall of Fame?" And behind a while you equitable start thinking, Why am I doing this anyway? I figured the additional day that I spend the equivalent of nearly four days of my life every annual on the Hall of Fame -- asking former coaches and players and officials about the cases of certain candidates. I know how important it is I attempt apt do the best and highest conscientious job I can, knowing that there are,surrounded about each class of 15 modern-era finalists, more candidates I'd ballot yeah aboard than no.brbrThis annual meantime always the discussions in the dormitory were finished, I looked down my account and checked eleven men I'd have voted for and four I would have turned down. But we whittle the list from 15 to 10, and then from 10 to five,onward we ballot yeah or not aboard individual candidates. That means,on my account this anniversary six deserving men wouldn't obtain among.brbrWell, I'll mention this. I don't accede with everything Peter writes -- among fact, our 1st online conversation was about my opposition to something he put up -- merely back getting apt know him a morsel I'm beautiful sure that there aren't a thousand people among the country who are more obsessed with the game -- and more surrounded touch with what's going on -- than him. It's not to mention that everyone aboard that selection committee is that committed apt the right side of the process, because I'm sure there are some who obtain among that dormitory and ballot with a dislike.br