Mike Sando on NFL Hall of Fame
You Better You Bet
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, let's just get into it here because joining us on the show, you know, it was one thing when like, I've said this about you in like the last couple weeks, because you've kind of become like Mike Sanders with us from the athletic. You've kind of become right wrong or indifferent. I think for them it's great, like the mouthpiece for the Pro Football Hall of Fame and like the electors and everything. It was one thing when you were just like the smartest guy in the room, which I think you are. And I say that when you're not here also. |
| 0:24.2 | We've had conversations. and like the electors and everything. It was one thing when you were just like the smartest guy in the room, |
| 0:21.3 | which I think you are. |
| 0:22.2 | And I say that when you're not here also. We've had conversations about the game Whartle, where I'm just like, this guy's so much smarter than me. I'm not even sure like we're the same species. But you've been working out, man. And now like you're jacked. Like, Come on. |
| 0:35.9 | Can you leave something for the rest of us? |
| 0:38.0 | Mike Sando with us on the show. |
| 0:39.2 | Come on. |
| 0:39.3 | Well, yeah, I'm trying. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm, I'm, I, well, yeah. I'm working out to get rid of my frustrations on the Hall of Fame process. I can tell you that. I have to do 100 push-ups every time we screw something up in there. And so I've done about 20 million push-ups No wonder you're so yoked, man. Seriously, I say this about the Hall of Fame. Can I ask you this first? Only because I've said a couple times over the course of what I've been promoting your appearance. And people are really excited for this. That the first question I was going to ask you is what the hell is wrong with the pro football Hall of Fame. So Mike Sando, I ask you in person, what the hell is wrong with the pro football Hall of'm going to start. I'm going to tell you what's right about it. |
| 1:11.6 | The people that run it are great and they have high integrity, okay? |
| 1:14.6 | They really want what's best. |
| 1:16.6 | However, they have made some changes to the voting process that have clashed with what we might call the senior committee mafia of the of the Hall of Fame. And what that means is the League or the Hall of Fame. |
| 1:27.7 | And what that means is |
| 1:28.6 | the League or the Hall of Fame |
| 1:31.0 | tried to make it more exclusive to get in |
| 1:33.3 | and so they changed the math so in theory |
| 1:35.5 | it's harder to get in. At the same time |
| 1:37.5 | a good number of the voters, |
| 1:39.6 | bigger than I realized, but we've seen |
| 1:41.3 | a couple guys write about it. Vaugh Hagargorians |
| 1:43.2 | a writer from Kansas City. Mike Chapples are a writer from Indy. They've said they did this. |
| 1:47.8 | They are so focused on getting senior candidates in because they feel like in this year |
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