[sportscurmudgeon]

I know everyone here is angry about Monk getting snubbed again but the REAL reason he is getting snubbed is not Peter King or writers from Dallas or aliens from the Planet Zeembo. The real culprit here is - hold your breath - Art Monk.

The fact it that writers/broadcasters/journalists are the ones who decide who goes into the HoF in all the major sports. If you don't like that, go to your bank account and start up your own HoF. When you do that, you can establish whatever you'd like as the process for inducting people. You could do it all yourself if you want and you could banish all Cowboys' players just because it's your HoF. You can do whatever you want if you are the one paying the bills. But that's not the way Canton works. Deal with it!

Art Monk was not "helpful" or "accomodating" to the press folks for most if not all of his career. He wasn't mean or disrepectful, but he wasn't helpful either. And so, he did not endear himself to the people who now hold the keys to the HoF and he is paying a price for that. He knew they held the keys; he behaved the way he wanted to behave. Now what has kicked in is one of the unspoken rules of the real world:

Adults make choices and choices have consequences.

Monk will eventually get in. It would help if he did a little apologizing and a little "glad handing" on his own behalf - which is not his style at all but which would go a looong way. Once again,. he can choose to do this or not. And that choice will have consequences either positive or negative.

BTW, if Monk writes a letter like Harry Carson did, he won't get in until he's dead.