'From the Depths of Depression to the Heights of Ecstasy'
After waiting for roughly 40 years, Moorestown football legend and NFL great Dave Robinson finally made the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend.
Dave Robinson’s Saturday went from anxious to deeply depressing to exhilarating, all within a matter of moments. Hunkered down in his hotel room in New Orleans, the former Moorestown football standout and all-time great NFL linebacker watched as the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee announced the names for the 2013 class. Hall of Fame classes are usually limited to four or five players, Robinson said, so when they got to number five and he hadn’t heard his name, he figured he’d been passed over again. (He was up for induction the first time around in 1989, but missed the cut.) “I said, ‘Well that’s it. You’ve had it,’” he recalled. And then he heard his name—second-to-last ahead of defensive tackle Warren Sapp—and, “All of a …
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