Due to the fact being a 2 time Super Bowl winner and a trailblazing NFL player, due to his Mexican-American ethnicity, along with NFL coach, Tom Flores, Jim definitely deserves to be in Canton.
YES! http://members.shaw.ca/rice4hof has plenty of reasons why.
yes he is
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No, you have to be retired to be in the Hall of Fame, therefor not being paid.