The NFL sucks. I can't believe Derrick Thomas did not make it into the hall of fame again this year. He makes it into the top ten finalists every year, and then is left off the list of the final five for up and down voting. What a bunch of idiots those writers are.

No one had more sacks in the nineties than Derrick Thomas. No one had more sacks in a single game in NFL history than Derrick Thomas. Andre Tippett?! Are you freaking kidding me? If I held a draft of linebackers tomorrow, the only people taking Andre Tippett ahead of DT are Patriots fans. John Elway said the player on an opposing defense he feared the most was Derrick Thomas. Pretty high praise from a guy who didn't have too many problems doing whatever he wanted on offense.

32 of his 126 sacks were against quarterbacks in the hall of fame.
25%, not bad. 17 were against Ol' Horseface, again not bad considering Elway was so elusive. He also had four against Brett Favre, and one against a rookie named Peyton Manning, and when they make the hall it will elevate that to 29%.

He also forced 45 fumbles in his career, and recovered 19, including 4 he returned for touchdowns. He intercepted one pass for a touchdown. He was in short a difference-maker. Kansas City's defense in the 90's still would have been formidable without him, but you ask any of those guys who they looked to for leadership, and DT would have been at the top of that list.

Troy Aikman named three defensive players he thought could turn a game around by themselves. Reggie White, Lawrence Taylor, and that guy who can't get into the hall of fame.

The hall of fame without #58 is the hall of shame.

Remember DT here: http://play.rbn.com/?url=nfl/nfl/open/chiefs/demand/av_dttribute350_01282005.rm&proto=rtsp