# Best athlete not in his/her sport's Hall of Fame?

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**Created:** [August 24, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-athlete-not-in-his-her-sports-hall-of-fame/696351 "2014-08-24T04:46:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-athlete-not-in-his-her-sports-hall-of-fame/696351/41 "2014-08-29T20:13:29Z")

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After Google, it appears I’m NOT the only person that thinks Ricky Watters is a Hall of Famer.

> **[Ricky Watters Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College |...](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WattRi00.htm)**
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> Checkout the latest stats for Ricky Watters. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, college, draft, and more on Pro-football-reference.com.

The numbers don’t lie. Especially telling, to me anyway, is the list of similar players at each stage of his career. It’s littered with HoF’ers, Barry Sanders, Dorsett, Jim Brown, Payton, Sayers, Allen … on and on and on.

Starting to look like a personality issue. Though I LOVED the guy! 😃

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