NFL: Creve Coeur Resident Aeneas Williams Misses Out On 2013 Pro Football Hall Of Fame Class

For the second year, Aeneas Williams made it to the final day of voting for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday. But for the second straight year, the Creve Coeur resident did not gain enough support to be chosen in the class of 2013, the league announced Saturday night.

Williams, who played for the Arizona Cardinals and the St. Louis Rams, made it through Saturday's cutdown from 17 to the round of the final 10 candidates. In the end, voters elected Larry Allen, Cris Carter, Jonathan Ogden, Bill Parcells, and Warren Sapp as modern era candidates. Curley Culp and Dave Robinson were also elected by a separate vote.

In a career which began in 1991 and ended in 2004, Williams tallied 55 interceptions and registered 220 tackles. He was the 59th overall pick in the 3rd round of the 1991 NFL draft after playing in college at Southern. 

In an interview with Patch last year as he awaited word on his Hall of Fame candidacy in 2012, Williams credited his attention to learning what he didn't know for his success. 

"Be yourself, do things the way they're supposed to be done," he told Patch last year.

"I knew they knew something I didn't know," Williams said of fellow football players during his career. So he'd pay his own money to see them, learn from them, study up, call them. All told, he estimates between 60-70 percent of those who he learned from were All-Pros or current or future Hall of Fame players.

The enshrinement ceremony is scheduled for Saturday August 3, 2013.