Friday,
Aug. 3, 2001
Family matters
By Scott Walsh
Mike Munchak can laugh about it now, but there was nothing funny at the time about
losing in arm-wrestling to his best friend's mother.
Saturday, Aug. 3, 2001
Scranton hero enters the Hall
of Fame today after a lifetime of football made him a
legend
By Donnie Collins
CANTON, Ohio -- Ask Mike
Munchak if he was born to be a legend, and he'll tell you no.
Munchak takes place in Pro Football Hall of Fame
By Marty Myers
CANTON,
Ohio -- The walk through history begins with the busts of George Halas, Lou Groza, Bob
Griese. Across the way, Vince Lombardi, Sammy Baugh and Dick Butkus are immortalized. |
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Cost of greatness, paid in full
By Donnie Collins
CANTON,
Ohio -- He made it look so easy. And so hard.
He made driving bigger men, stronger men, faster men to the ground seem as
easy as a Sunday drive through the countryside. He made getting out of bed the next
morning seem more challenging than a physics equation. SaturDay's Voice:
Love of game drives Munch to Canton
By Mike Munchak
Football
has been a huge part of my life. It has kind of directed it since I've been eight years
old. It was my favorite sport right from the beginning, and remained so right up through
the high school level and college level.
Speech has Munchak thinking
By Donnie Collins
CANTON,
Ohio -- Mike Munchak is worried.
And the same guy who punished bigger, faster defensive linemen for the better
part of 12 years in the National Football League doesn't get nervous often.
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Sunday, Aug. 5, 2001
Munchak Inducted in Hall of Fame
By Marty Myers
CANTON,
Ohio -- The Magnificent Seven headed down the steps of the Hall of Fame to the front row.
Mike's Hanging Out With the Big Boys Now
By Donnie Collins
CANTON, Ohio -- Call
it luck. No, call it destiny.
Call it what you will, but Mike Anthony Munchak Jr. was there. Shaking hands
with Don Shula. Exchanging small talk with Lynn Swann. Dressing just like John
Hannah.Consistency Is Rewarded
By Marty Myers and Donnie Collins
CANTON, Ohio -- Just 24
offensive linemen had been inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame since its first
enshrinees in 1963.
As It
Turns Out, Swann Did Plenty
By Marty Myers
It took 14 years of patience,
frustrating years of wondering if he could he have done more. Did he do enough? Would
Pittsburgh's punishing ground game be too much to overcome for a receiver with marginal
career numbers by comparison.
'Blue
Collar Guy' Offers Thanks to Many
The text of Mike Munchak's speech
"I've been sitting up
here for the past hour, nervous as heck, envisioning that at any moment, someone from NFL
security is going to show up and say, 'Hey Munchak, what are you doing up here? Get off
that stage. It's for Hall of Famers. You're just a blue-collar guy from Scranton,
Pennsylvania.'
Bright
Lights, Big City
By Donnie Collins
CANTON, Ohio -- It's hot in
Houston. But Mike Munchak didn't know how hot. There aren't a lot of trees or mountains in
Houston -- at least, not as many as there are in Scranton.
Munchak Through the
Years
By Donnie Collins
It
started on an out-of-the-way pee-wee football field in East Scranton. It wound up on the
steps of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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