stillers4me
02-04-2012, 06:16 PM
For years, his peers spoke on his behalf. They told stories of his toughness and listed his accomplishments and detailed his statistics. Today, those voices have been heard. Today, Jack Butler was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Fifty-three years after his career was ended by a horrific knee injury, 48 years after he first became eligible, Jack Butler finally became a member of a group that has been enhanced by his addition. Butler is a part of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2012. He had been on the ballot as one of two nominees of the Hall of Fame’s Seniors Committee, which reviews the qualifications of players whose careers took place more than 25 years ago. This is the same path Dick LeBeau took when he was inducted as a member of the Class of 2010.
Butler joins an impressive number of Steelers who have been elected to the Hall of Fame, but he and Ernie Stautner are the only two from that era who played their entire careers in Pittsburgh. The era in question was the 1950s, a time when professional football was not a glamorous business, especially in Pittsburgh..............
read more @ http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Finally-the-Hall-calls-for-Butler/c243c609-055b-49cb-9094-f7120c51b9bc
Fifty-three years after his career was ended by a horrific knee injury, 48 years after he first became eligible, Jack Butler finally became a member of a group that has been enhanced by his addition. Butler is a part of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2012. He had been on the ballot as one of two nominees of the Hall of Fame’s Seniors Committee, which reviews the qualifications of players whose careers took place more than 25 years ago. This is the same path Dick LeBeau took when he was inducted as a member of the Class of 2010.
Butler joins an impressive number of Steelers who have been elected to the Hall of Fame, but he and Ernie Stautner are the only two from that era who played their entire careers in Pittsburgh. The era in question was the 1950s, a time when professional football was not a glamorous business, especially in Pittsburgh..............
read more @ http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Finally-the-Hall-calls-for-Butler/c243c609-055b-49cb-9094-f7120c51b9bc