In what has become a regular Pro Football Hall of Fame tradition, a Cowboy was elected out on the last ballot. This year, it was Micheal Irvin. Prior years have featured no-name guys like Cliff Harris, Rayfield Wright, and of course, the barely-noticed & rarely-mentioned Bob Hayes. Next year, it will likely be Troy Aikman. In order to vote a Cowboy out this year, the voters had to reach all the way back to the 1930s for Bennie Friedman, a QB for the powerhouse Michigan Wolverines, and dead for 22 years.

It’s become a cynical pleasure to watch the HoF machinations from afar since they occur at Super Bowl time. Because everybody knows who’s the best Super Bowl team in NFL history, right? Everybody knows who’s the best NFL playoff team in history, right? Do I have to go through it all again? Yet, somehow, there are only five Dallas Cowboys worthy of being put in the Hall of Fame. Even though this decade’s dynasty team is only now TRYING to TIE the standard set by the Cowboys of the 90s (that would be three Super Bowl victories in four years.)

The Cowboys bias from the media has become downright laughable. Laughing at the mediots is nothing new in this blog, of course. I’ve always held sportswriters a notch or two above the usual suspects, because their maunderings had to have some relation to what actually happens / happened. It’s dead easy to see the fakes and charlatans when you’re talking NFL or MLB or what have you, and being a good writer by itself just isn’t enough. But when you can somehow justify to yourself NOT putting Bob Hayes in the HoF…well, it sure ain’t about football, now is it? The “journalists” once again manage to show their collective ass.

Well, eff ‘em, I say. We’ll watch the same sad a-holes do a job on Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Deion Sanders, Larry Allan, etc. from the great Super Bowl teams of the 90s. It’ll be the same job their forebears did on the Cowboys Super Bowl teams from the 70s. The ones who will suffer, besides the individual players, will be the future generations who care enough about a sport to bother with a Hall of Fame. They won’t be getting the full story, and for that they can thank, once again, a bunch of mediot journalists.

It should be noted that, in a shocking departure from HoF tradition, the voters did not elect a Pittsburgh Steeler to join his FIFTEEN teammates. There may yet be hope for the Pokes.