Hall's procedural changes enabled long-overdue breakthrough. Cooperative efforts broke the stalemate for late Chargers coach.
Recommended attire: “Charger Power” gold T-shirts worn by thousands of locals to Mission Valley.The late Don Coryell, whose San Diego Chargers teams exhilarated much of America between 1978 and 1986, will in fact be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Saturday in Canton, Ohio.Set off the Chargers Cannon. Donald David Coryell is taking his place among the sport’s greats.
Don’t forget that back in the 1960s, when Coryell led the football Aztecs of San Diego State, the cooperative efforts of thousands of San Diegans laid the foundation to his burgeoning career here.Per landslide-level approval by local voters, public money built San Diego Stadium on time and on budget.Move forward to recent years. Fittingly, to end a 35-year stalemate that denied Coryell’s induction into the Canton shrine, it took a cooperative, common-sense effort.
“I give Porter a lot of credit,” Clark Judge, a Hall voter for 13 years, said Friday. “He always says he wants to get things right. He’s getting it there.”Chargers coach Don Coryell and quarterback Dan Fouts react to a call during a 1983 game. Mercifully, the solution nixed the yearly ritual that had become as ridiculous as running Fouts into a stacked defense.Here’s how it went at voters’ meetings: Advocates spoke for Coryell. Skeptics pointed out none of his Cardinals or Chargers teams reached the Super Bowl, noting also his 3-6 playoff record.
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