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Art Monk hit the singles, but it was Gary Clark who hit the home runs for Washington s Super Bowl champions
Art Monk is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But as a selector, I always had a difficult time with his candidacy.
Washington won three Super Bowls during Monk’s career. In each of those seasons, Washington had a Pro Bowl wide receiver. But it wasn’t Monk in any of those three seasons. Can you be a Hall-of- Fame receiver if you were never the best receiver on your best teams?
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Try Rock and Roll have been around the block several times on several formats.
Consisting of 1950s and early 1960s Imperial recordings supported by the usual J&M/Cosimo studio suspects, the Algiers native’s 78s and 45s pretty much didn’t catch on outside of the immediate Gulf Coast. However, it was 40 years ago, nearly to the day, that the initial vinyl reissue of Mitchell’s Imperial catalog appeared on the Swedish Mr. R&B Records label. The release would soon lead to an avalanche of reissues of classic New Orleans R&B material and a legion of baby boomers that became fans of the genre. Indeed, Mitchell even appeared on the initial cover of New Orleans’ first music magazine
In his 41 years as a player, coach and general manager in Washington, Mitchell was one of the Black players that helped integrate the team alongside Ernie Davis. And upon retiring, he became the first African American to work in an NFL front office.
But before all of that, Robert Cornelius Mitchell was a multi-sport athlete from Hot Springs, Arkansas. Growing up, he played football, basketball, baseball and ran track. To put in perspective the caliber of athlete he was, it s still difficult to say which of the four he was better at.
Mitchell turned down an offer to play professional baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals, choosing instead to accept a scholarship and attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he ran track and played football.