LOS ANGELES — Jimbo Covert didn’t get voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame until 30 years after he played his last game. And even then, he had to wait some more — 18 months after he was named to the Hall’s centennial class, the former Bears left tackle finally got to attend the coronavirus-delayed ceremony in August.
Covert, then, knows how frustrating it is to wait for that Hall call. In that sense, the franchise’s most recent Hall of Famer sympathizes with former Bears return great Devin Hester, who was not named one of the five modern-era inductees Thursday night. Hester was in his first year of eligibility.
