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The 2015 Fictitious Athlete Inductees

Happy Gilmore

Happy Gilmore (1996)Professional GolferDoes this make it a clean sweep for hockey for the 2015 Inductees?While Gilmore was a washout as a hockey player, he did have a booming shot, which was about the only real hockey skill he had.  Gilmore would parlay that skill to hustling on the driving range, and when he learned from one armed golf pro, Chubbs Peterson how much money he could make playing professionally, he took to the links in order to raise enough money to save his beloved grandmother’s home.Gilmore would gain a lot of fans on the tour and changed the dynamic…
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Reggie Dunlop

Slap Shot (1977)Charlestown Chiefs Player/CoachIt can’t be disputed that Paul Newman is one of the greatest actors of all time, but for many of us, nowhere was he more entertaining than when he was Reggie Dunlop, the player/coach of the Charlestown Chiefs.With a lot of snow on the roof of his mid-40’s body, Dunlop was clearly in the winter of his playing career, but his youthful (juvenile?) antics on and off of the ice were balanced by his shenanigans to do whatever he could to keep the Chiefs afloat in the town where the mill’s closing spelled doom for the…
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The Hanson Brothers

Slap Shot (1977)Charlestown Chiefs (forward line)Let’s forget about the forgettable sequels shall we?Slap Shot is without any doubt the most influential hockey movie of all time.  This cannot be disputed, and if it, that person is what we like to call, wrong!The Hanson Brothers are the first inductees into the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame who are inducted as a group, and how can you separate them?  Played by three legitimate hockey players (David Hanson, Steve Carlson & Jeff Carson), the bespectacled trio were simpletons off of the ice and feared goons on it.  This was the group that brought…
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