Members of the 2013 Pats HoF nominating committee

[QuantumMechanic]

Saw this in Reiss's mailbag and thought people here might be interested to know who was on the committee this year:

Seniors (10): Ernie Adams (Patriots), Ron Borges (Boston Herald), **** Cerasuolo (Worcester Telegram), Jim Donaldson (Providence Journal), Mark Farinella (Attleboro Sun Chronicle), Glen Farley (Brockton Enterprise), Ron Hobson (Patriots Ledger), Carlo Imelio (Springfield Union News), Gil Santos (Voice of the Patriots), Howard Ulman (Associated Press)

Beat writers (2): Chris Price (WEEI.com), Mike Reiss (ESPNBoston.com)

Patriots Football Network (2): Paul Perillo (Patriots Football Weekly), Matt Smith (Patriots All-Access)

New England television (2): Steve Burton (WBZ), Mike Lynch (WCVB)

At-Large (2): John Hendry (statistician), Bryan Morry

 

[Sciz]

So THAT is what Ernie Adams actually does!

 

[Tunescribe]

I should be on that committee instead of damn Borges.

 

[RayClay]

Still hoping Ron "the Humble One" Hobson takes a shot at writing the definitive story of the Patriots.

From my experience, he is the greatest living chronicler of the team, plus he's a great football guy, plus he was always funny as hell in a very dry way. Worked every year of the Pats until he retired and his father was a writer and editor of Boston sports since 1930!

Ron’s father was Pres Hobson, who debuted as a sports writer with The Quincy Patriot Ledger in the 1930s and was the newspaper’s sports editor when 20-year-old Ron was brought in part-time to “run quotes” for his uncle, Lin Raymond. A burly, white-haired polar bear of a man with a fabulous flair for writing and story-telling, Raymond covered the then-Boston Patriots and the Red Sox.

Ron’s job in the summers of 1960 (the first year of the Patriots and the American Football League) and ’61 was to go to the locker rooms, gather quotes from the players and relay them to Raymond for inclusion in his stories.

“You never know when you’re a kid what you want to do,” Hobson said, “but when I was running quotes, I said, ‘I love this. This is great.’”

Ron had the inside track on the Pats’ move to Foxboro. Pres Hobson was also vice president and general manager of Foxboro Raceway, a horse track for trotters and pacers owned by theater magnate E.M. Loew of Milton. Knowing that Patriots founder and owner Billy Sullivan was desperate for a home stadium, Pres suggested the raceway site.

Talks with Sullivan, investors and others led to an agreement. In the simplest of terms, land was donated to the town, a long-term lease was arranged, the raceway was razed, the Patriots finally had their own facility, and Ron Hobson – who doubled as the horse track’s publicity director – had a Patriot Ledger scoop of major proportions.

Ron Hobson, Ledger's Humble One, had a ball for 50 years - Quincy, MA - The Patriot Ledger

 

[FCB02062]

Still hoping Ron "the Humble One" Hobson takes a shot at writing the definitive story of the Patriots.

From my experience, he is the greatest living chronicler of the team, plus he's a great football guy, plus he was always funny as hell in a very dry way. Worked every year of the Pats until he retired and his father was a writer and editor of Boston sports since 1930!




Ron Hobson, Ledger's Humble One, had a ball for 50 years - Quincy, MA - The Patriot Ledger

I remember Hobson and Mannix as guests on the Sports Huddle with Eddie Andelman...this was before the current age of "look at me" sports "journalism"

 

[captain stone]

I should be on that committee instead of damn Borges.

It baffles to no end how Wrong Bogus still hold such influence in an organization he despises.

 

[Tunescribe]

It baffles to no end how Wrong Bogus still hold such influence in an organization he despises.

Because a professional journalist, by definition, is assumed to be objective and impartial.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

My guess is that Wrong Borgazz is only on the Pats HoF committee because for some inexplicable reason he is the person that the Pro Football HoF has designated to present Patriots players to the Pro Football HoF commitee.

 

[captain stone]

Because a professional journalist, by definition, is assumed to be objective and impartial.

So how does that explain Bogus?

 

[jmt57]

With the regular season being formally announced this week, that means that this year's Pats team Hall of Fame ceremonies will take presumably take place in week three; that typically occurs in week two. Week two is the Pats first home game, but is on a Thursday night.

- Fan voting concludes May 15
- Winner will be announced in early June
- Pats HoF ceremony on Saturday September 21
- Introduction at game versus Bucs, Sunday September 22