I was, and still am, totally against Ray Lewis being in the HOF, so no arguments there.
However, TO spent his entire career treating sportswriters (the people who vote for the HOF) like sh!t — and they STILL voted him in on his third year of eligibility.
Now contrast TO with Charles Haley, a 5-time SB champ, who had to wait @10yrs after first becoming eligible and yet who accepted his induction with class and dignity.
TO’s got ZERO gripes coming.
You mean sports writers voted him in after they gave their jab last year? And Charles Haley accepting it with "class and dignity" doesn't change the fact that TO has a legitimate reason to be upset.
And let's talk about Haley, Haley is a great player, he's not top 3 at his position like TO. There is a gap between the two.
With the years sportwriters WANTED TO to be a villain, I'm not sure I'm about to praise them for this. They treated McNabb like he was a saint when the feud was happening, go ask many Eagles fans how they felt about McNabb when things didn't go his way? He became just as much of a headache as TO near the end of his career in Philly. It's kinda like McNabb was a diva himself poking TO, it's just the media didn't brand him the villain.
But that's the point, sports writers have voted in some terrible human beings in the past. It talks about priorities and pettiness when they deny a players rightful place as a first ballot over feuds over a decade ago.