From the Green Bay Press-Gazette:
GREEN BAY — Fifty years after his legendary Ice Bowl block, Green Bay Packers right guard Jerry Kramer is a senior finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It's the 11th time Kramer has been a Hall of Fame finalist, the most of any player currently not enshrined. His last time came in 1997.
Kramer still must receive 80 percent of the votes from the 48-member Hall of Fame selection committee during its annual meeting on Feb. 3 in Minneapolis. But his chances appear good: Of the 56 candidates the seniors committee has presented, 43 have been elected to the Hall of Fame.
Kramer remains the only member of the NFL's 50th anniversary first-team unit who isn't enshrined in Canton. Jim Parker and Dan Fortmann, second-team selections behind Kramer, got in decades ago. “I think he’s the biggest oversight in the Hall,” said Dallas Morning News columnist Rick Gosselin, who joined the seniors committee in 2004. “He’s been a candidate. That’s not the issue. They’ve discussed him. For whatever reason, he’s not in.”
Former Houston Oilers linebacker Robert Brazile also was nominated by the senior committee.
