The MNFFL Hall of Fame includes a very select group of players who excelled in every area of the game of flag football. Generally, the honoree played for several years and led in one or more statistical category during those years. The Hall of Fame was introduced at the end of the fifth season of the Monday Night Flag Football League, in 2016.

CLASS OF 2020

For the first time since we began recognizing Hall of Fame players from the Monday Night Flag Football League, there are two players in the Class of 2020!

Alex Campbell

Storm (2012-2019)

League founder at age ten. Nearly double the touchdowns of the next player (Donivan Krop, whose name is on the MVP award). Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and league MVP—multiple times. Alex’s passing stats will never be equaled, he currently has the all-time lead in rushing touchdowns (77), and he also has the all-time record for interceptions and is 2nd in interception return touchdowns (Donivan has him there!). Alex played eight seasons of MNFFL football and excelled and improved each year, leading his team, the Storm, to the Championship Game in all but one of those seasons. (An OT playoff loss to Donivan and the Hawks! What a game!) Three of those Championship appearances were victories for the Storm. Over those years, Alex threw TD passes to 31 different players! Team success, individual success… Alex Campbell will now lend his name to the MNFFL Offensive Player of the Year award. Maybe a future recipient of that award will catch up to him, but Alex made that very difficult to do!

Micah Krop

Pythons (2012) Hawks (2013-2019)

To this point, we have always added just one player per year to the MNFFL Hall of Fame. But as we were discussing the list this year, Alex (among others) mentioned that for all of their eight years playing together, the MNFFL almost always mentioned “Alex & Micah” together. No one wanted to play against them. Everyone wanted to play with them. Neither seemed stoppable. Micah was the younger Krop, nestled behind brothers Donivan and Joel—both MNFFL Hall of Famers—and he is a very quiet fellow, which can often make one go unnoticed. And in some ways, Micah was “sneaky good” in the MNFFL. But without question, everyone noticed Micah! He led his Hawks to three Championships (all three of them were victories over Alex Campbell’s Storm!), he was named league MVP, and Offensive Player of the Year, and regularly led his team to victory after victory. On offense or defense, Micah was the one making the play for his team. And now, Micah Krop is the third player with that surname to earn a spot in the MNFFL Hall of Fame!

CLASS OF 2019

Joel Krop

Pythons (2012) Generals (2015) Hawks (2013-14, 2016-17)

Joel is the quintessential student of the game. Every week he would bring questions about rules he’d researched, scheming ways to win every down. He was the hardest working player on the field, and he is in the top five in most categories that are tracked in the MNFFL. Beyond what he did for his team on the field, Joel also has been a referee in the league, and excelled at that position, too! After playing six years in the league, mostly with his family on the Hawks, we’re glad to announce Joel as the newest member of the MNFFL Hall of Fame!

CLASS OF 2018

Cole Lyke

Hawks (2013) Stars (2014) Bears/Pandas (2015-2016) Rockets (2017)

Not sure why Cole played for so many different teams, but on every team he played for he was the main focus of the opposing team’s game plan! Cole could out-jump, out hustle, out throw and/or catch, and he would literally fly across the field to make the touchdown-saving tackle. He played hard, and is near the top in many all-time categories (and he played in many seasons where we didn’t track things like receptions and tackles). We chose this photo for his Hall of Fame plaque because it shows the effort he put into everything he did. Another reason was most of the other photos we have were a blur because of how he played!

Cole’s best season may have been 2016 when he led his Pandas to the Championship Game against the Storm. The Pandas scored 81 touchdowns that season, winning most of their games by large margins. Unfortunately they came up short in the final game, but it was a season where Cole dominated!

CLASS OF 2017

Ian Campbell – Storm (2012-2016)

Ian Campbell epitomizes the word effort. Not only did he play with size, strength, speed, smarts, and skill; he always played hard! There was no quit in Ian, no matter the score of the game. He gave everything he had, every play he was on the field. Ian is the unofficial all-time leader in touchdown receptions with 103 over his five years of football.

He was definitely a huge part of the Storm’s back-to-back Championships in 2015 and 2016—including an undefeated season in 2016—as the receiving part of the 3-to-98 scoring combo. But equally important (or perhaps greater) was his tenacity on defense. You were not going past him without a fight! (Ian always wished it was tackle football, actually…) Tackles (grabbings of the flag) were not tracked during Ian’s playing years, but he did have 38 interceptions, 13 returned for TDs. And, without question, he was the heart of the Storm’s defense—which was annually the top defense in the MNFFL.

For that reason, the annual MNFFL Defensive Player of the Year award now bears his name.

CLASS OF 2016

Donivan Krop – Pythons (2012), Hawks (2013-2015)

Donivan was the one player during his playing years, who could basically do anything he wanted to in a game. If his team needed offense, he could make it happen. If they needed a stop, he would make it happen. And don’t even think about kicking the ball to him. (Of course, even if it was kicked to the end line, he’d still track that down and return it 60 yards through the entire opposing team, taking it in for the score. Touchdown passes, catches, runs, returns, interceptions, and his patented spin move—Donivan Krop wowed everyone who saw him, every time he played.

Donivan led the Hawks to a nearly-perfect (7-0-1), Championship Season in 2014, and participated in three straight Championship Games from 2013 to 2015. He is deservedly the very first member of the MNFFL Hall of Fame, and the Most Valuable Player award now bears his name.