Shell’s journey is a long, but good one
A strict accounting of history will show that Donnie Shell and Bill Nunn were elected to receive their sport’s highest individual honor in different years, and even with the global impact of COVID-19 they were enshrined separately. But in the eye of the football gods, they entered together. If not hand-in-hand but together all the same, because each man was a significant part of the other’s resume that got them both through the doors of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Nunn already had ushered many young men into the National Football League, first as the Sports Editor of the Pittsburgh Courier and then
