The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced another class of inductees earlier this month, tabbing six more players for enshrinement in Canton, Ohio.

Jerry Kramer was not among them — again.

That the 76-year-old former Idaho Vandals and Green Bay Packers standout is not in the Hall of Fame is one of the great snubs in football history.

It feels like a misprint. A mistake. An impossibility. An error that should be easily fixed.

Kramer, who lives in Boise, is the only member of the NFL’s 50th anniversary team selected in 1969 not in the Hall of Fame. A five-time All-Pro, Kramer — who played right guard for five title-winning Packers teams in the Lombardi era — is considered the best player not in the Hall of Fame by many, including NFL Films co-founder Steve Sabol. He has been a finalist a record 10 times, the last time in 1997 as a senior nominee. But never has he made it from the field of finalists into the Hall, a determination made by 44 writers.

Though Kramer is often introduced as a Hall of Famer before radio appearances or speaking engagements — he has stopped correcting people — his bust is not in Canton. And, at this point, it might not ever be there.

“I even drove by the Hall of Fame one time and decided not to go into it until I was elected,” Kramer said.

“Looks like I never will see it.”

No one would blame Kramer for being bitter, especially when the Hall has inducted 21 senior nominees since 1998. Instead, he is constantly overjoyed at the honors he does receive. A thunderous applause in Green Bay, when he was recently introduced as one of the 10 greatest Packers.

Kramer is confused by it all, trying to balance the honors he does get with the one he hasn’t. Commissioner Roger Goodell once told Kramer he was going to look into his absence from the Hall of Fame, Kramer said.

“The game has given me so many presents that if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work,” said Kramer, who played his final game of his 11-year Packers career in 1968. “It’s wonderful that people remember you. You always appreciate the sound of your name and applause.”

While Kramer says it would be impolite to campaign for a spot in the Hall, his daughter, Alicia, is determined to make one more push for her father. Alicia Kramer has created a website (Jerrykramer4HOF.com), a Facebook page (JerryKramer4HOF) and a Twitter account (@JerryKramer4HOF) in order to press her father’s case. Similar efforts have helped other senior candidates earn the nod.

“I believe it will make a difference. I really believe 2013 is the year,” Alicia Kramer said.

The seniors committee, a subset of the 44 Hall of Fame voters, announces its nominees in late August. The full panel makes its choices for the Hall during Super Bowl week. Alicia has promised her father that she will drop it if 2013 is not the year.

“We’re going to cut bait and go fishing,” she said.

Sports Illustrated writer Peter King, perhaps the best known of the 44 Hall of Fame voters, is not optimistic about Kramer’s chances. With many of the writers who witnessed Kramer’s career first-hand no longer on the committee, King wrote last fall, the current voters are “being asked, basically, to overrule those who watched Kramer’s entire career. They had 15 chances to enshrine Kramer after watching the Packers win five titles in the ’60s. They had years to nominate and push his case as a senior candidate. And the media people who saw him the most and knew the Packers the best didn’t think he was worthy.”

No one has a definitive reason for Kramer’s absence. He’s heard a number of rationales: That he might not have even been the best guard on the Packers. Too many Lombardi-era Packers. Resentment over his book, “Instant Replay.”

They all ring hollow, considering he was a member of the 1960s All-Decade team and is the only member of the NFL’s 50th anniversary team not in the Hall.

So the curious case of Jerry Kramer — the best player not in the Hall of Fame — seems likely to continue.

He’d give a heck of a speech. He deserves to visit the Hall of Fame at least once. The place would be a better one with him in there.

“There are still a lot of wonderful moments and wonderful surprises and you shake your head,” Kramer said. “Who would believe after so many years that they still remember you and appreciate you? Life is good.”

It’d be even better if Kramer got the one wonderful moment that has eluded him all these years.

Brian Murphy: 377-6444