Sunday, February 04, 2007

A Crying Shame or a Joke . . . Take Your Pick

We depart from hockey for a moment to point out that one of the great travesties of sport was perpetrated yesterday when one of these players was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the other was not. Let’s go to the “tale o’ the tape.”

Regular Season:

Art
Monk

Michael Irvin

Games

224

159

Rec.

940

750

Yds.

12,721

11,904

Avg.

13.5

15.9

TDs

68

65

Top-10 finishes:

Rec.

4

4

Yds.

3

6

TDs

1

4

All Time:

Rec.

6

T20

Yds

11

14

TDs

T30

T37

Playoffs:

Games

15

16

Rec.

69

87

Yds.

1,042

1,314

Avg.

15.1

15.1

TDs

7

8

Super Bowl Wins

2

3



Not to mention, Monk was an exemplary character, both on and off the field. That Monk is still on the outside looking in for the seventh time after today's inductees were announced, and Irvin in on his third try is one of the true injustices of the sport. It diminishes the Hall and the NFL. It is only perhaps exceeded by the mind-boggling snub of former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue for induction. Following onto the legendary tenure of Pete Rozelle, Tagliabue was the overseer of the NFL into a marketing colossus.

The Hall's board of selectors should be replaced in its entirety and banned from any further participation in the annual selection.

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