"It was his combination of size and speed and his heart. He ran with reckless abandon and he ran with bad intentions. He was a wrecking ball as a running back."
Dillon makes it clear as one of his notorious stiff-arms that cleared out history. He's not campaigning for the thing. "I already consider myself a Hall-of-Famer," he says. But he wonders why his supporters have to make the case.
"I think the process has to be changed," says Dillon, who still wonders how Terrell Owens didn't go on the first ballot. "They did him dirty. If they did that to one of the top three receivers of all-time, how are they going to do me? I mean, dude, if O.J. Simpson is in, I should be in. Just look at the numbers. That's all I'm saying. Why should anybody have to say anything at all?"
With 11,241 career yards, Dillon, the 20th all-time rusher, has five more yards than Simpson. Dillon has two of the 14 biggest rushing games in NFL history by virtue of breaking two of the league's oldest records. The only other person on that list twice is Simpson.
"As time moves on, I appreciate Corey Dillon. Let me very clear about that," George says. "But to the masses, it's like you don't really hear about him. Now that's crazy because he was clearly one of the top five, top three running backs in our era."
For full transparency, Bengals.com, has the Cincinnati vote on the Hall of Fame selection committee. For even more transparency, Bengals.com has been the one pushing the belief that the Hall is filled with too many good players on great teams (Cowboys wide receiver Drew Pearson) and not enough great players (Bengals wide receiver Isaac Curtis) from non-championship teams.
Dillon and his Bengals teammate, right tackle Willie Anderson, are the textbook examples of modern day Hall-of-Famers penalized for playing on non-contending teams. Their Astroturf ancestors at Riverfront Stadium, cornerback Ken Riley and quarterback Ken Anderson, are the leading examples for senior Hall candidates.
"Let me trade places with any of the other running backs," Dillon says. "Put me on the Ravens, Put me on the Steelers. Put me on Denver. Oh boy."
How about the Patriots? When Bengals president Mike Brown assured New England head coach Bill Belichick before the 2004 draft that Dillon would be a good and productive team player after some volatile moments in Cincy, they swung a trade that gave the Pats their third Super Bowl title when Dillon provided Tom Brady with the franchise's most prolific rushing season ever on 1,634 yards.
"He wanted to win so badly. Such a competitive guy," Jim Anderson says. "He's done so many things. And that's one of them. Being a big reason a team won a Super Bowl."
Sports Illustrated pushed an anti-Dillon argument a few years ago, which oozed with the same, old tired stat milestones or political appointments, like all-decade teams and all-pro teams.
The website said since Dillon never led the league in rushing and rushing touchdowns, or wasn't ever a first-team All-Pro or on an all-decade team, there are others that deserve consideration before him. Such as Edgerrin James, Shaun Alexander and Jamal Lewis. James, who was elected this past year, led the league in rushing twice and was all-decade for the 2000s. Alexander also led the league in rushing twice, rushing touchdowns twice and was an NFL MVP. Jamal Lewis, who broke Dillon's single-game record in 2003 with 295, led the league with a 2,000-yard season and is an all-decade player.
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