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To be eligible for the nominating process, a player or coach must have been retired for at least five years. Any other contributor such as a team owner or executive can be voted in at any time. Fans may nominate any player, coach or contributor by simply writing to the Pro Football Hall of Fame via letter or email.
In â40 and â41, there was no election. He was finally voted in 1942, with 78.1 percent of the votes. It is also strange to note that if todayâs rules applied in 1945, we wouldnât have Joltinâ Joe DiMaggio in the Hall of Fame. He received only one vote, which represented only 0.4 percent of the ballots. Today, if a player receives less than 5 percent at any time during their 15 years of eligibility, they are discontinued from Hall of Fame voting. DiMaggio finally got inducted in 1955 on his fourth ballot. So, as you can see, it is no disgrace not to be voted into the HOF on your first year of eligibility.