Derrick Thomas a Hall Of Famer Off the Field, Too

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Published: August 8, 2009

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... week, and you know, I just could not figure it out. Maybe I'm just not good enough at what I do, or maybe I'm just not good enough yet, either way, I couldn't figure it out.

How do you capsule in 1,000 words a life that has reached out beyond words and touched lives totaling 1,000 times that many words?

How do you do that without risking understating his impact or, even worse, offending? It's not something we as journalists want to do, but have to do. But enough about me. On to you.

You're probably going to overlook this Hall of Fame class, unless you rooted for one of these players, and to be honest, I don't blame you.

Among the six inductees, there's only two Super Bowl rings and under 100 all-purpose touchdowns. Most years, we have one player who accomplished both.

This rings out as a boring class, a defense-laden potpourri with only one skill position player, and he's been retired since the Miami Dolphins were only a year removed from a s...

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