Bill Nunn Memorial Award

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Bill Nunn Memorial Award
History
Sport	American football
Awarded for	"In recognition of long and distinguished reporting in the field of pro football."
Location	Pro Football Hall of Fame Canton, Ohio
Presented by	Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA)
First award	1969
Most recent	Jim Trotter (2023)
Website	Official website

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.^[1]

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

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.^[4]

Award recipients

Year^[5]	Awardee	Publication
1969	George Strickler	Chicago Tribune
1970	Arthur Daley	The New York Times
1971	Joe King	New York World-Telegram and Sun
1972	Lewis Atchison	Washington Star
1973	Dave Brady	The Washington Post
1974	Bob Oates	Los Angeles Times
1975	John Steadman	Baltimore News-American
1976	Jack Hand	Associated Press
1977	Art Daley	Green Bay Press-Gazette
1978	Murray Olderman	Newspaper Enterprise Association
1979	Pat Livingston	Pittsburgh Press
1980	Chuck Heaton	Cleveland Plain Dealer
1981	Norm Miller	New York Daily News
1982	Cameron Snyder	Baltimore Morning Sun
1983	Hugh Brown	Philadelphia Bulletin
1984	Larry Felser	Buffalo News
1985	Cooper Rollow	Chicago Tribune
1986	Bill Wallace	The New York Times
1987	Jerry Magee	San Diego Union
1988	Gordon Forbes	USA Today
1989	Vito Stellino	The Baltimore Sun
1990	Will McDonough	The Boston Globe
1991	Dick Connor	Denver Post
1992	Frank Luksa	Dallas Morning News
1993	Ira Miller	San Francisco Chronicle
1994	Don Pierson	Chicago Tribune
1995	Ray Didinger	Philadelphia Daily News
1996	Paul Zimmerman	Sports Illustrated
1997	Bob Roesler	New Orleans Times-Picayune
1998	Dave Anderson	The New York Times
1999	Art Spander	Oakland Tribune
2000	Tom McEwen	Tampa Tribune
2001	Len Shapiro	The Washington Post
2002	Edwin Pope	Miami Herald
2003	Joel Buchsbaum	Pro Football Weekly
2004	Rick Gosselin	Dallas Morning News
2005	Jerry Green	Detroit News
2006	John McClain	Houston Chronicle
2007	John Clayton	ESPN.com
2008	Len Pasquarelli	ESPN.com
2009	Peter King	Sports Illustrated
2010	Pete Finney	New Orleans Times-Picayune
2011	Bob McGinn	Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
2012	Tom Kowalski	MLive.com^[6]
2013	Dan Pompei	Chicago Tribune
2014	Ed Bouchette	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
2015	Dave Goldberg	Associated Press
2016	Chris Mortensen	ESPN.com^[7]
2017	Ed Werder	ESPN.com^[8]
2018	Charean Williams	Pro Football Talk
2019	Sam Farmer	Los Angeles Times
2020	Don Banks	Sports Illustrated
2021	Bob Glauber	Newsday
2022	Jarrett Bell	USA Today^[9]
2023	Jim Trotter	The Athletic^[10]

References

^ "Bill Nunn Jr. Award". Pro Football Writers of America. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
^ "Mini-Bio: Dick McCann" (PDF). profootballresearchers.org. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
^ Johnson, Keshawn; Glauber, Bob (2021). The Forgotten First. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 9781538705476. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
^ "John Clayton bio". ESPN.com. Archived from the original on March 17, 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
^ "Bill Nunn Memorial Award Winners". Profootballhof.com. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
^ Zaroo, Philip. "Tom Kowalski selected to receive Dick McCann Award by Pro Football Writers Association," MLive.com, Friday, June 22, 2012. Retrieved December 10, 2017
^ Sando, Mike. "ESPN's Chris Mortensen presented with Dick McCann Award," ESPN.com, Saturday, August 6, 2016. Retrieved December 10, 2017
^ "Ed Werder Selected As PFWA's 2017 Dick McCann Award Winner," Pro Football Hall of Fame, Wednesday, June 14, 2017. Retrieved December 10, 2017
^ "Jarrett Bell Selected as PFWA's 2022 Bill Nunn Jr. Award Winner". si.com. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
^ "The Athletic writer Jim Trotter selected as winner of 2023 Bill Nunn Memorial Award". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved 17 May 2023.

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Bill Nunn Memorial Award at the Pro Football Hall of Fame

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