Because they're pissed off that they're still around and still popular, unlike whatever crappy band they were into 5, 10 or 15 years ago when they were bashing Bon Jovi saying they'd never be around 5, 10 or 15 years later.

If the RNR Hall of Fame is anything ilke Rolling Stone Magazine, they won't get in. RSM has basically just decided to ignore the fact that Bon Jovi ever existed. They always bashed the band, calling them "flash in the pan", whatever. They've been proven wrong time and time again. Now, they don't even talk about them. To have a 40th anniversary issue talking about the last 40 years of music and not include Bon Jovi is just assanine and childish. We're talking about one of the 5 or 6 most successfull bands of all time and they don't even mention them??? Come on...