There are a TON of players in the HOF that didn't have HOF coaches.
But try to name a HOF coach that didn't have a HOF quarterback.
This should tell you something about which is more important in reality.
Episode 2 of “This Was SportsCenter” is up and it’s a doozy. My guest is the essential Godfather of SportsCenter, the one and only Chris Berman. In a live chat recorded at the Strand Theater in San Francisco back during Super Bowl Week in February, we covered his first 47 years at ESPN from soup to nuts. What was it like when he got there in 1979? Why did he start dropping nicknames on the air? When did he know SportsCenter was becoming iconic? How in the world did he wind up on the set of the NFL Draft and more.