Despite the best qualifications and evidence of CTE in his darkest hour, Pro Football Hall of Fame voters rejected Jim Tyrer.

The children of Chiefs great Jim Tyrer had hoped that this would be the year in which voters limited their consideration to ...

Kansas City Chiefs great Jim Tyrer's candidacy for the Pro Football Hall of Fame has stirred a debate between his success on ...

Jim Tyrer killed his wife, then turned the gun on himself in 1980 — he's largely considered one of the league's first cases ...

Brad Tyrer, of Louisville watched his dad become a legend in the NFL — a six-time first team All Pro with the Kansas City ...

Hall of Fame inductee Sterling Sharpe received a familial welcoming into pro football's most exclusive club. Sharpe's brother ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with ESPN reporter Mark Fainaru-Wada about the controversy over the hall of fame eligibility of Jim Tyrer, a great player who also committed a terrible crime.

Denver Post/Getty Images When Jim Tyrer first appeared on a Pro Football Hall of Fame ballot in the early 1980s after completing an impressive 14-year career, the Kansas City Chiefs offensive ...

Antonio Gates, Jared Allen, Eric Allen and Sterling Sharpe were voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the smallest ...

Jim Tyrer retired as one of the best offensive linemen in NFL history in 1974. He was on the line as tackle for 14 years, almost all of them but the great Kansas City Chiefs of the 1960s and '70s.

When pro football historians John Turney and Frank ... former Chiefs left tackle Jim Tyrer towered like a colossus above the rest. Decorated with distinctions such as the AFL All-Time Team and ...