In the midst of celebrating a Super Bowl win with his adopted hometown of Philadelphia — the first for the organization for whom he played for more than a dozen years — he will now realize a dream when he gets inducted into the Black College Football Hall of Fame on Saturday night in Atlanta.
Carmichael will be the fourth Southern player to be enshrined in the Black College Football Hall of Fame, joining Mel Blount (2011), Aeneas Williams (2016) and Isiah Robertson (2017).
The 6-foot-8 Carmichael walked on at Southern as a three-sport athlete, and left as a seventh-round draft pick of the Philadelphia Eagles as a wide receiver.
He turned that into a 14-year NFL career that saw him make the Pro Bowl four times. He was named to the NFL’s 1970s All-Decade team and this season was made part of Southern’s new ring of honor at A.W. Mumford Stadium.
This will be Carmichael’s third Hall of Fame induction. He was also inducted into the Eagles Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Southwestern Athletic Conference Hall of Fame in 2012.
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