It just occurred to me that we never did that Hall of Legends voting for 2021. We are thus late and in violation of our league constitution (gasp!).

So, to get us moving I'd like to solicit nominations for a very tardy HoL vote. Please post them in this thread. Just to remind everyone of the HoL rules, here's the relevant portion of our constitution:

The Hall of Legends honors the greatest players in CFL History. Any player who has been retired for at least one season is eligible for induction into the Hall.

1. INDUCTION PROCEDURE

The nomination process will be conducted by the Hall of Legends Director, appointed by the Commissioner, with the following restrictions:

1. Before the start of the previous season's playoffs, the Director shall create a thread in the CFL Forum entitled "Hall of Legends Nominations."

2. Any current owner, former owner, or fan may nominate any eligible player for nomination by posting a reply in the Hall of Legends Nominations thread.

3. The voting period shall begin at the start of the first free agency period and end at midnight EST before the training camp stage is simulated.

4. All votes shall be cast by secret ballot submitted to the Hall of Fame Director by Private Message (PM) on the CFL Forum. Only current team owners may vote and only one vote shall be cast per team.

5. To be inducted, a player must receive 20 votes from the Committee of the Whole, or 75% of votes cast (minimum of 16 votes cast).

6. Nominations do not rollover to subsequent years. If there aren't enough votes to make a decision on a player, that player must be re-nominated to be voted on again. A player may only be nominated 3 times for the Hall of Legends.

2. INDUCTION CEREMONY

Players inducted into the Hall of Legends by the Committee of the Whole shall be announced at halftime during the first live chat simulation of the Regular Season.

All players inducted into the CFL Hall of Legends shall have a summary of their career posted on the CFL website consisting of no more than 200 words. The author of the summary shall be one of the following in order of priority:

1. Current owner of the team where the inductee played the most years of his career.

2. Current owner of the team where the inductee played his last season.

3. Former owner of the team where the inductee spent the most years of his career.

4. Former owner of the team where the inductee played his last season.

5. Any current or former CFL owner who volunteers.

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The HOL is still not out of my doghouse. However, I will do the write-up for MArio Ah Yat should he ever get inducted. The fact that he won't be a first balloter due to lack of a quorum underscores the HOL's presence in my doghouse to begin with.

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CFL Champions: 2018, 2041, 2057-2058, 2060, 2062

I think we need to change the 20 owner rule to 65% of owners. This will account for the fact that we less owners this year.

We've also got the 75% of 16 votes alternative.

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Western Conference Champions - 2011-2013, 2016, 2017, 2019-2022, 2024, 2025, 2028, 2033
CFL Champions - 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2025

[quoted00d7c5="Fonzie"]We've also got the 75% of 16 votes alternative.[/quoted00d7c5]

I doubt we'll get as many as 16 owners to vote though.

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Eastern Conference champions - 2005, 2006, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
CFL Champions - 2021, 2023

True, that. Perhaps we change the language to account for the possibility that the league is not fully stocked with owners? Something along the lines of "75% of votes cast (with a minimum of 50% of owners participating)"?

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Western Conference Champions - 2011-2013, 2016, 2017, 2019-2022, 2024, 2025, 2028, 2033
CFL Champions - 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2025