(EDITORS NOTE: To acce s the Jim Porter interview, please click on the following attachment: )Jim Porter has been the Pro Football Hall-of-Fames president for le s than a week, taking the job after former CEO and president David Baker abruptly stepped down last weekend. Neverthele s, it didn't take Porter long to make an impre sion.It took one conversation.OK, so its a small step. But what he said on the latest Cody Bellinger Jersey Eye Test for Two podcast ( ) should encourage the Halls 49-member board of selectors as well as fans everywhere that the Hall is open to changes in the voting proce s including, and most especially, the senior selection.For far too long, seniors (defined as players out of the game 25 years or more) faced overwhelming odds reaching Canton. Jerry Kramer and Johnny Robinson, for example, recently were elected after waiting over four decades and theyre the lucky ones. More often, seniors sink so deep into a mora s of Hall-of-Fame worthy talent that they never escape Austin Barnes Jersey what has been aptly coined "the senior aby s."Consider, for instance, former Philadelphia lineman Al Wistert. He played nine seasons, was an eight-time All-Pro, a first-team all-decade choice and two-time NFL champion. Credentials like that would make him a first-ballot cinch today. But he played in the 1940s and, regrettably, has been forgotten.Wistert isnt the exception. According to our Rick Go selin, there are 58 all-decade players in the senior pool, most of whom were never discu sed as finalists, and thats a problem. The Halls rules allow only one senior candidate per year -- until the Cla s of 2025, yet there are far more Hall-of-Fame worthy seniors than coaches and contributors.That needs to be addre sed, and Porter isnt waiting.I dont think I have nece sarily any thoughts on will that number grow, he said of seniors, but I think what Id really like to do in the very near future is get the opinions of all of you guys the 49 selectors and say, What are Ross Stripling Jersey we doing well, and what can we do better? And go from that route.Scroll to ContinueBecause I think the folks who are doing this ought to have some good input on what that looks like. So thats a discu sion Im absolutely open for.How?For me, said Porter, a life-long Canton resident who spent 33 years in the newspaper busine s, whatever is easiest for everybody. But my gue s (is that it) would probably be a Zoom call so that we can discu s it among ourselves and not get lost in an e-mail string somewhere.From 2004-14 the Fernando Valenzuela Jersey Hall considered two senior finalists annually. Since then, however, there have been only three years (2016, 2018 and 2020) where more than one senior was proposed. When the Hall created the coaching category this year, there was hope that would change. It didnt. Instead, the Hall decreed that there would be one senior, contributor and coaching finalist annually through 2024.That may seem fair, but its not. As Ive said, theres a glut of Hall-of-Fame worthy seniors. There isnt of coaches and contributors. Critics of the proce s have called for change, but theres been no sign of movement.Until now. At the very least, Porter signaled that one is po sible.If theres an increase in senior finalists and theres support within the board of selectors for it it shouldnt affect Cantons annual enshrinement ceremony. The Hall this year limited induction speeches to six-to-eight minutes, and the results were encouraging. Enshrinement ceremonies for the Cla ses of 2020-21 moved with haste, leaving ample time to accommodate one or two more inductees.But thats not why I want to do it, Porter said of a po sible increase in numbers. I want to do it because its the right Pedro Baez Jersey thing to do. Its going to be hard to get 49 folks to agree on everything, but the conversation has to happen. And then we figure it out from there, right? Bingo.