Pat Tillman Elected to College Football Hall of Fame

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Source: Bloomberg

May 27 (Bloomberg) -- Pat Tillman, who died in Afghanistan in 2004 after giving up a professional football career to join the U.S. Army Rangers, is among 12 former players and two coaches elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.

This year’s class, presented by the National Football Foundation, also includes Desmond Howard, who won the Heisman Trophy at the University of Michigan, and former coaches Barry Alvarez of the University of Wisconsin and Gene Stallings of the University of Alabama.

Tillman, who played linebacker at Arizona State University, was selected as the Pacific-10 Conference’s defensive player of the year as a senior in 1997. He was picked by the Arizona Cardinals in that year’s National Football League draft and played four seasons before enlisting in the Army after the 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S.

Tillman was killed by friendly fire on April 22, 2004. The incident was investigated by a congressional committee after the military and White House waited to give details of his death to his family and the public. Army reports initially indicated that Tillman died while fighting enemies in a ravine, an act for which he was awarded the Silver Star.

Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-27/pat-tillman-elected-to-college-football-hall-of-fame-correct-.html

[Teka]

1. Well deserved

[Chulanowa]

2. Awesome for his memory

What would be more awesomer would be charges filed against the people who covered up the real causes of his death, and an investigation into whether it was truly "friendly" fire.