• Source: Bill Nunn Memorial Award

The Bill Nunn Memorial Award is bestowed annually by the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA) to a reporter for their "long and distinguished contribution to pro football through coverage". It is named after Bill Nunn Jr., who worked for 22 years at the Pittsburgh Courier.
The award was created in 1969 and was originally named the Dick McCann Memorial Award, after Dick McCann, the first director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. However, the name was changed in 2021 due to McCann's association with the segregationist policies of the Washington Redskins when he was the team's general manager.
Presentation of the award is made annually at the Pro Football Hall Enshrinement Ceremony. Prior to 2014, the presentation was made at the Enshrinees Dinner. While the list of Nunn Award honorees is sometimes referred to as the "writer's wing" of the Hall of Fame, they not actually hall of famers and do not get gold jackets or bronze busts like hall of famers do and as of 2024, so far none of the Nunn Award winners have gotten inducted.




Award recipients






See also


J. G. Taylor Spink Award - sports writers (Baseball Writers' Association of America)
Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award




References






External links


Bill Nunn Memorial Award at the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Pat Riley
• Bill Nunn Memorial Award
• Bill Nunn (American football)
• John Clayton (sportswriter)
• Chuck Heaton
• Jerry Magee
• Joel Buchsbaum
• Charean Williams
• John McClain
• Larry Felser
• Peter King (sportswriter)