Charles Haley has a pretty strong Hall of Fame case based on his numbers as a 49er. Tom Hauck/Getty
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As one of the 39 selectors for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, I've learned never to be surprised about the intensity of debate over Hall selections, in season or out. In fact, there is no offseason for Hall of Fame discussion. Last week, when Dan Patrick brought up on his national radio show the claims of former Dallas wide receiver Drew Pearson -- who says there's a anti-Cowboys bias in Hall voting -- it dominated two days of the show. Maybe three. I stopped listening.

Amazing. It's the middle of May, as far away from Hall of Fame voting season (and football season) as you can get, and the intensity of interest is equal to what it sounds like a day or two after the voting.

So I thought, for the record, I'd look at the best teams of the past 45 years -- since the American Football League began playing -- and try to make some sort of judgments about which teams, if any, seem underrepresented in the Hall of Fame. What constitutes a "best team?'' There are many ways to figure that, obviously, but I narrowed the list to 13 using these criteria:

1. No team after 1999 can qualify. We don't sit in judgment of players until five years after they retire, so it'd be fruitless, obviously, to put the Patriots in here simply because they've won three of the past four Super Bowls. They don't have anyone eligible yet from those teams.

2. A team has to have either three conference championship game appearances -- or, in pre-1970 football, when there were two leagues, three appearances in league championship games or at least two Super Bowl victories with one continuous thread. For instance, I use the Denver Broncos of 1986-98, because that was the Elway era. We could argue about the criteria all day. I thought about using two Super Bowl appearances as the standard, but then teams such as the Bengals started slipping in there. No disrespect intended to the Bengals, but I don't consider them one of the best football teams of my lifetime.

3. If a team doesn't qualify under these circumstances, it can still make the list... by having four or more Hall of Famers. No team made it, though the mid-'70s Redskins came close.

I need to say one thing about Hall selections. They are probably weighted too much toward players who were on winning teams. I've thought this since I became a member of the board 14 years ago. I'm not saying only winners should be in. I'm simply suggesting we examine examine the debate about which teams might be underrepresented, and which teams might have too many players in the Hall.

For a player to qualify with the team I've listed, he had to spend at least half his career there during that era. Marcus Allen is not part of the 1967-'83 Raiders team, even though he was a big factor in Oakland's last Super Bowl team of that era, because he only spent two years with the franchise. I made some judgments about coaches and owners too. Art Rooney doesn't count with the '70s Steelers; he was elected to the Hall in 1964. Dan Rooney does count; he was elected in 2000. Mike Ditka doesn't count on the mid-'80s Bears; he's in the Hall more for his playing career than for coaching.