After a lifetime in football, Gil Brandt had a lot of thank yous

Gil Brandt, 86, has spent a lifetime in the NFL. So he had many people to thank, squeezing in some 50 names in his 19-minute, 29-second Hall of Fame speech. Brandt was the first of eight inductees Saturday night in Canton. It seemed appropriate. He drafted 501 players in his 29 years as the Cowboys’