Making four consecutive Pro Bowls and a First Team All-Pro Selection, Asante Samuel was an integral part of a pair of Super Bowl Championships by the New England Patriots. Samuel would lead the National Football League in Interceptions twice, had 51 overall and would become one of the more recognized Defensive Backs in the NFL.
A former Big XII Defensive Player of the Year at the University of Texas, Casey Hampton was drafted 19th Overall in 2001 by the Pittsburgh Steelers, which would be the only team that he would ever play for professionally.
At one point, we here at Notinhalloffame.com debated openly that Donovan McNabb played himself out of the Hall of Fame, with horrific stints in Washington and Minnesota, but if he would have won that Super Bowl (the one he threw up in), would that discussion even be held?
Peter Karmanos Jr. brought hockey to the Carolinas when he moved the Hartford Whalers south and renamed them the Carolina Hurricanes. While the people in Connecticut may still despise him, he is very well respected within hockey circles and he proudly hosted the Stanley Cup in 2006.