Gerard Waitley

He was on the Hall of Fame panel, yes.

And he himself will be in the Hall of Fame, I think, at some stage.

Deserves to be as a luminary of the media.

I would think so.

And he wasn't invited to the – I found that late yesterday.

He wasn't invited to the Hall of Fame.

That's not right, is it?

No, it's not right.

It's not right.

He's been – I don't know.

You can't have oversights like that, can you?

Well, you can because it did happen, but you wonder how it does happen.

He's been –

one of the game's most influential, important media partners in the last 50 years.

He's a fierce, passionate person when it comes to the history and the traditions and the culture of football.

I don't know of any person that I've met is more passionate about the game.

Now, you can have your own views about whether or not you agree with some of the things he's said over the years, but you could not argue that this man is not as passionate and committed and emotionally connected to the game as anyone that I've ever come across.

Spot on.

the prominence and the reverence with which the hall of fame is now held is due in no small part to people like Mike Sheehan, who establishes, you know, the criteria, the framework, the basis, the, you know, puts the, you know, the, um, puts the perspective around it about who gets in and why and how.

And, you know, when people debate who can't get in, who can, he's, you know, it,