2025 Ring of Honor game

[BengalYankee]

Join us for the 2025 Ring of Honor game as we take on the NY Jets on Sunday, Oct. 26 at 1:00PM. Don’t miss your chance to witness an unforgettable halftime ceremony honoring Bengals Legends.

Secure your tickets now and be part of the celebration!

[George Cantstandya]

Here are this year's nominees.

https://www.bengals.com/news/bengals-ring-of-honor-game-set-for-october-26-against-jets

Quote:--Jim Breech 

--James Brooks 

--Cris Collinsworth 

--David Fulcher 

--Dave Lapham 

--Max Montoya 

--Lemar Parrish 

--Bob Trumpy 

--Reggie Williams

[Sled21]

(05-28-2025, 11:30 AM)George Cantstandya Wrote: Here are this year's nominees.

https://www.bengals.com/news/bengals-ring-of-honor-game-set-for-october-26-against-jets

Tough list. I'd have to go Parrish and then Montoya (Get the full Mexican Connection into the ring) but Trumpy, Brooks and Williams would also be great choices. Heck, all of them deserve to be up there. I'd make CC wait a little while just due to his gushing over Rapist boy.

[*pally*]

I would vote for Bob Trump and LeMar Parrish...they are the 2 oldest players on the list and both are deserving. Let's get them in there while they are still alive to enjoy the honor.

Lap should be in for total contribution to the team

[Clark W Griswold]

What are the rules for getting nominated?
I ask because I don’t see Geno listed and, yes, he was a better player than any of this years nominees.

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

I'd take Parrish 1st and then Brooks (who I rate over Dillon as our best RB ever).

If I had to order the rest:

1. Montoya
2. Fulcher
3. Trumpy
4. Collinsworth
5. Williams
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6. Lapham
7. Breech

I think, beyond Parrish & Brooks, other players deserve to be in before Montoya, Fulcher, Trumpy, CC, and Reggie. All those guys are worthy, but I think other guys are MORE deserving.

IN: Paul Brown, Anthony Munoz, Ken Riley, Ken Anderson; Willie Anderson, Isaac Curtis; Boomer Esiason, Chad Johnson; Tim Krumrie, Corey Dillon.

 No misses there. PB, Munoz, & Riley are HOFers. The Andersons should be. Boomer is an MVP. Chad & Dillon own most of our rushing/receiving records. And Krumrie did things a NT just should not do (lead team in tackles). No complaints about who is in. Though I'd gone Parrish/Brooks before some of them.

Guys like Geno, AJ, and Whit need to enter the chat pretty soon.

But Parrish, for me, is a HOF level player. Without the drug use, he'd probably be in already.
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[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

(05-28-2025, 01:27 PM)Clark W Griswold Wrote: What are the rules for getting nominated?
I ask because I don’t see Geno listed and, yes, he was a better player than any of this years nominees.

Parrish made 5 all-pro teams, 8 pro bowls, and was the NFL leader in return touchdowns until Neon Deion took it. 

While I tend to agree on the others, my guess would be he has not been retired long enough. 

[samhain]

Kind of a bummer that they don't get to continue doing this in prime time. I was really liking the late September night games with ROH ceremony thrown in.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(05-28-2025, 01:27 PM)Clark W Griswold Wrote: What are the rules for getting nominated?
I ask because I don’t see Geno listed and, yes, he was a better player than any of this years nominees.

Not certain, but I would assume the same 5 years since retirement wait as the normal HoF? Geno is eligible for actual HoF next offseason.

[Clark W Griswold]

(05-28-2025, 07:13 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Not certain, but I would assume the same 5 years since retirement wait as the normal HoF? Geno is eligible for actual HoF next offseason.

Makes sense but I thought it had been 5 years already. Older I get the less concept of time I have.

Anyway, Geno’s ineligible so I would pick Parrish and Montoya - even though Fulcher is one of my all time favorites and it’s close I just think Montoya was a excellent player for a longer period of time.