{"id":11699,"date":"2026-02-04T15:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/?p=11699"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:04:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:04:01","slug":"san-francisco-49ers-great-roger-craig-elected-to-the-pro-football-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/2026\/02\/04\/san-francisco-49ers-great-roger-craig-elected-to-the-pro-football-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco 49ers great Roger Craig elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It took a while. Now Roger Craig can join other 49ers from the dynasty years after being selected by the Seniors Blue-Ribbon Committee to join the 2026 NFL Hall of Fame class.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11702\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Roger-Craig-HOF-001.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Craig #33 - Joe Montana #16 - John Taylor #82\" width=\"999\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Roger-Craig-HOF-001.jpg 999w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Roger-Craig-HOF-001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Roger-Craig-HOF-001-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At halftime during the December 20, 2015 game vs the Cincinnati Bengals many San Francisco 49er greats got together to celebrate Super Bowl L ( 50 ) that would be hosted by Levi&#8217;s Stadium on February 7, 2016. The Denver Broncos led by Payton Manning would beat the Carolina Panthers 24-10.<br \/>\nRemembering the good old days, the photo shows 49ers greats Roger Craig, Joe Montana, and John Taylor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11703 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Roger-Craig-HOF-002.jpg\" alt=\"Hall of Fame bound Roger Craig #33 takes a selfie during 2015 Levi's Stadium Super Bowl celebration\" width=\"999\" height=\"995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Roger-Craig-HOF-002.jpg 999w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Roger-Craig-HOF-002-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Roger-Craig-HOF-002-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Roger-Craig-HOF-002-768x765.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><br \/>\nIt must be nice to take a selfie and &#8220;push&#8221; Joe Montana off to the side so that you are the center of attention. Of course that&#8217;s not what happened. ( wink, wink )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took a while. Now Roger Craig can join other 49ers from the dynasty years after being selected by the Seniors Blue-Ribbon Committee to join the 2026 NFL Hall of Fame class. At halftime during the December 20, 2015 game vs the Cincinnati Bengals many San Francisco 49er greats got together to celebrate Super Bowl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[]},"categories":[19,3,1],"tags":[457,813,815,66,451,3027,468,3028],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11705,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions\/11705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}