The Eagles all time leader in pass receptions, receiving yards, receiving touchdowns, and total touchdowns, despite the league now being a much more pass heavy offense than in his day, will finally be making his way into the NFL Hall Of Fame after a long strange wait.
Harold was not just an all time Eagles great, he is an all time NFL great. When he retired in 1984, he had the fifth most receptions and the seventh most touchdown receptions of all time (in the NFL).
Prior to Brian Dawkins in 2018, there weren’t any Philadelphia Eagles players who had played more than three seasons with the football team to be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame since the great Reggie White, who was posthumously inducted in 2006.
Terrell Owens should have lasted longer than his one great and one disastrous season with the organization. If he had, Eagles fans would have celebrated his entry alongside Dawkins in 2018.
Another receiver the Philly faithful could have celebrated with was Chris Carter, inducted in 2013, but alas, that was not meant to be either.
The Eagles hadn’t had a wide receiver enter Canton, unless it was for a tour, since Tommy McDonald in 1998.
All of that changed January 15th 2020 when the great number 17, Harold Carmichael, finally got the call. The Pro Football Hall of Fame was celebrating the one hundred year anniversary of the NFL by creating a special centennial induction process which inducted ten seniors, three contributors to the game and two coaches.
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After a very long wait to be selected, and then to be inducted (due to Covid-19 pandemic) Harold was ready when his number was called, just like he always was when he played for the Eagles.
I can think of nobody more deserving to enter the hallowed halls than Lee Harold Carmichael. Congratulations to you!
David
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