Michael Irvin's Hall of Fame decision

Jun/15/08 09:22 PM Filed in: Michael Irvin
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The NFL decided to follow through on an idea conceived by Michael Irvin before his induction into the Hall of Fame last year, which has the rookies from all 32 teams traveling to Canton, Ohio, this spring.

On Friday, the Cowboys were joined by Philadelphia. Green Bay was supposed to be on hand but weather conditions postponed the Packers' trip.

Here's why Irvin came up with the idea: he was lauding Commissioner Roger Goodell about the get-tough Personal Conduct Policy last August and wanted to giver the younger players a sense of football's history.

"Most of these guys they come from the place I come from," Irvin said he told Goodell. "They don't understand the history of the game. They play the game to get away from their history - poverty, the ghetto. As soon as they are drafted and escape their history, bring them to the Hall and teach them this history and hopefully when they come to that fork in the road, they won't make the bad decisions like I made. They'll make better decisions."

The league is picking up the tab for the teams and there's talk the Rookie Symposium could move to northeast Ohio next year.

(cowboysblog.dallasnews.com)