Hog Heaven wrote:I can't believe I beat everyone to the scoop... thats a 1st. And yes, Monk's name should have been in the thread title.
Maybe, like me...they were sitting through #28's 35 minute ramble about everything under the sun, including a weather report and his latest stock tips.
"Sit back and watch the Redskins.
SOMETHING MAGICAL IS ABOUT TO BEGIN!"
JPFair- A fan's fan. RIP, brother
Finally, Monk gets recognized as a Hall of Fame player! It is a great day to be a Redskins fan! Congrats to Monk, Green and Coach Thomas. Three more Redskins in the Hall!
I wonder what brought about the change on Monk. You think overwhelming public opinion finally prevailed? They need to put Tagliabue in soon, he was pretty much the greatest commissioner in the history of sport.
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spudstr04 wrote:When is the ceremony in Canton, and can the public go to the hall of fame inductions? I want to be there when this glorious day happens...!!!!!
Sometimes in Aug. Tix went on sale yesterday.
People may not remember exactly what you did
or what you said....
~BUT~
they will ALWAYS remember how you made them feel.
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Daniel Snyder has defined incompetence, failure and greed to true Washington Redskins fans for over a decade and a half. Stay away from football operations !!!
congrats to art and darrell .. HOF ....
those two are true redskins and it showed.....
thanks art and darrell for giving this skins fan alot of memories.
After they put that slapdick Cowboy in last year, putting Art Monk in this year was the only way the voting committee could regain even the smallest amount of respect of any decent football fan.
Everyone is saying that putting Darrell Green in the HOF in his first year of eligibility was a no-brainer (which it is). But I always thought the same was true about Art Monk as well and I've been wrong for nearly eight years.
Congratulations Art, my apologies on behalf of the slack-jawed yokels on the HOF voting committee but I hope the wait was worth it.
yupchagee wrote:Now that Monk is FINALLY in the HOF, we need to start a campaign for Fisher & Hanberger.
Savior the moment. Two of the greatest Redskins just got in the Hall. Lets revel in the moment and then proceed to call for other Redskins to be enshrined. What a GREAT day in Redskins history!
FINALLY!!!! FINALLY!!!!! Art Monk not being enshrined earlier is one of the greatest ills in life! The HOF Committee could not get this one wrong...
Kudos to one of the greatest cornerbacks ever! DG is one and Mel Blount is the other. What a great day to have two of our greatest Skins ever in the Hall on the same day! I had a sneaky suspicion last year that, that would happen this year.
I guess it would have been too much to ask for Russ Grimm on this same day...That would probably be a record of some sort.
But on that note...You have to have some members from the famed HOGS in the Hall! Russ Grimm will get in next year...but Joe Jacoby should surely be shortly behind. They were the nuts and bolts of the HOGS and our brutal running attack.
And I know this is a stretch but what about Gary Clark, Dexter Manley or Charles Mann and even Dave Butz??? These were the Mighty, Mighty Washington Redskins!!!
Comments from Green and Monk, quoted just now in NY Times:
February 3, 2008 Monk and Green Selected for N.F.L.’s Hall By THAYER EVANS PHOENIX — When cornerback Darrell Green joined the Washington Redskins as a rookie in 1983, he struggled to defend wide receiver Art Monk in training camp.
After practices, a frustrated Green would return to his dorm room and tell himself, “I can’t cover these guys.”
But it turned out that those matchups between Green and Monk were more significant than either knew at the time, because they were between future Pro Football Hall of Fame players.
On Saturday, the two were among a class of six players selected to the shrine.
“There’s going to be a party at Redskin Park sometime soon, and me and Art are going to be there,” Green said. “This is going to be the bomb, man. It’s going to be on.”
....[cutting discussion non-Redskins]
Green spent his 20 N.F.L. seasons with the Redskins and holds the league record for most consecutive years with an interception (19). He was selected in his first year of eligibility.
Once Green’s name was announced as a selection, there was a roar from his family and friends in another room of the Phoenix Convention Center, where the selections were announced.
“This literally transcends football through everything I have gone through to do what I was able to do,” Green said. “It was more than the ability to run, cover and tackle. It just goes so far beyond that.”
Monk’s election came in his eighth year of eligibility. He retired in 1995, after 16 seasons. He once held N.F.L. records for most consecutive games with a reception, receptions in a season and career receptions. He had 940 career receptions, 68 for touchdowns.
“I wasn’t really expecting this, even though the possibility of it existed,” Monk said. “I’m greatly honored. I’m very humbled to receive this honor.”
The soft-spoken Monk said he was excited about being inducted with Green, one of his best friends. “This is even more special,” he said.
One of two nominations by the Senior Committee, Thomas was selected as a player, but he has a coaching connection to the Redskins. Now the assistant head coach for Atlanta, Thomas was a wide receivers coach and then a defensive backs coach for Washington from 1986-94, when Green and Monk played.
“I feel very special to go in with Darrell and Art,” Thomas said. “Both of those young men are excellent athletes, but great character people.”
"I know it must be surprising that a man that doesn't talk much is at a loss for words," Monk said. "But I am. I'm at a loss for words."
On the fly, he thanked his supporters, which included one of his former teammates championing his candidacy for years, Charles Mann, who set up the festivities and happily yelled, "Now Art, I got to hit you up for Hall of Fame tickets."
Monk smiled and nodded. He wasn't quite prepared for all this, but he improvised as best he could. Which was apropos for the second cousin of jazz icon Thelonious Monk.
"He was my father's first cousin," Monk said. "I never got to meet him, though. He was always off, doing his thing."
How about that? Art Monk is second cousin to Thelonious! I think I'll go play "In Walked Bud", and imagine the words changed to talk about James Arthur Monk.
Art Monk looks like he's still in shape to play WR for the Redskins.
Oh, if only!
The picture the Post is using shows the team lifting Monk after he set the all-time record for receptions. It's interesting to pick out his team-mates, and see what the real Redskins looked like. There is Ernest Byner, back to the camera, a big guy partially obscured but who looks like Joe Jacoby, Mark Rypien, who probably had just thrown the pass...let's see, who was number 63? Raleigh Mackenzie? Mr Can-play-every-OL-position? "A Collins" is Andre Collins, one of the heroes of SB 26. (And, yes, number 80 is Desmond Howard, as I remember).
