New Chairman's Award Eligibility

[Tetraman]

I think the major concern is how we see the Hall of Fame. We don't really put any context to it. We think that the teams that started in 1992 or 1998 or 2000 are the exact same team coming into 2010. They aren't the same team at all. They have the same number, some of the same mentors and maybe a similar winning strategy, but that in no way makes them the same team.

Think of it like this: The Yankees have won 23 world series titles, but Derek Jeter doesn't have 23 World series rings. He's a part of the team that has won that many, but thats team history. Therefore it makes perfect sense, that a FIRST team Hall of Fame team be remembered in context of the year they won it in, and not just consider every year after that team has the same caliber as it did years past. (sorry for using a yankees example for all you yankee haters out there.)

Instead of saying "this Hall of Fame winning team, Team 000!" we should stop and pause and remember that it was actually the 1990 Team 000 won that right to be called HoF, so the 2010 is not actually a HoF winning team. It's History calls it a Hall of Fame team, but itself isn't.