So, is Mississippi Southern the 1st MS school...

[FlabLoser]

...to have a guy put in the Pro Football HOF?

[Tbaen]

Bruiser Kinard from Ole Miss is in. Also Lem Barney, JSU. Jerry Rice too. Ok, I better stop now. I think there's a bunch from the swac.

[gravedigger]

Walter Peyton?

[Coach34]

yeah- Jackson State has one

[bobcat91]

Jerry Rice Valley

[FlabLoser]

Ha, shit. Yeah, Walter MF'n Payton. My biggest football hero. How could I have forgotten.

And Rice.

Pffffttt.. I had my D-1 blinders on I suppose.

[Todd4State]

Ole Miss has at least two because Gene Hickerson played for them. And there was Kinard. Jackson State had Payton, Lem Barney, and Jackie Slater. Jerry Rice from Valley and then one of my personal favorties- Deacon Jones- played at some college in Mississippi that is now closed, but I think it was in the SWAC.

Then there are a few that played at Mississippi JUCO's like Cortez Kennedy, Jim Taylor, and Walter Jones who was elected today went to Holmes.

[Coach34]

The SWAC had some hellacious players from the 50's-80's...then the decline started

[smootness]

Deacon Jones- played at some college in Mississippi that is now closed, but I think it was in the SWAC.

Mississippi Vocational College, which then became MVSU. So yes, MVSU has 2 Hall-of-Famers. And they're probably 2 of the top 15 or so players of all-time.

[Mjoelner34]

Not the NFL but we've got Jackie Parker in the CFL HOF since 1971.

[Coach34]

Mississippi Vocational College, which then became MVSU. So yes, MVSU has 2 Hall-of-Famers. And they're probably 2 of the top 15 or so players of all-time.

both 2-star players too**

[MidTNDawg]

Charley Conerly not in?

[Jack Lambert]

Only florida and Texas are the only two SEC states with more then Mississippi. As of September 2013 we were number ten.


Lance Alworth, Brookhaven
Lem Barney, 33rd Avenue (Gulfport)
Willie Brown, Yazoo City
Frank (Bruiser) Kinard, Central (Jackson)
Walter Payton, Columbia
Jerry Rice, Moor (Crawford)

[Jack Lambert]

The SWAC had some hellacious players from the 50's-80's...then the decline started

Discrimnation was a bad thing for Southern Football during that period.

[EAVdog]

State/Ole Miss could have been unbelievable with different attitudes toward race back in the day.

[Todd4State]

The SWAC had some hellacious players from the 50's-80's...then the decline started

That's weird. That's about the same time Ole Miss started to decline.

[RougeDawg]

State/Ole Miss could have been unbelievable with different attitudes toward race back in the day.

And here we go.

Favre will be another USM inductee.

[Schultzy]

both 2-star players too**

A timely response, I chuckled. Plus, I never knew Deacon Jones played at Valley and I take pride in knowing stuff like that.