One of our pet projects, the Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is pleased to announce the Class of 2020, which will be the 6^thfull class.  

The Finalists were decided by all of you, after being pared down from other 500 Preliminary Nominees, to a group of Semi-Finalists, and then sixteen Finalusts.

Whoever gets inducted this year, will join these previous inductees:

Spinal Tap, The Monkees, The Blues Brothers, Gorillaz, Tenacious D, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, Wyld Stallyns, Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Wonders, Bleeding Gums Murphy, Otis Day and the Nights and Stillwater.

The Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2020:

Josie and the Pussycats (Josie and the Pussycats):  From Riverdale, they went to outer space and back again and were a three-time Finalist before getting in.  This entrant is for the cartoon and not the film.  

We are pleased to induct Josie and the Pussycats to the Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Marvin Berry and the Starlighters (Back to the Future):  This was the band that played at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance in 1955.  Marty McFly played with them for one song.  Had it not been for McFly and Marvin, Chuck Berry never would have found that sound he was looking for.

We are pleased to induct Marvin Berry and the Starlighters to the Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Rutles (All You Need is Cash):  Finalists on two other occasions, The Rutles remind of us another group called the Beatles.  In the fictional musical universe, there are few that have been as successful.

We are pleased to induct The Rutles to the Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The other Finalists were Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension), Don Music (Sesame Street), Figrin D’An and the Modal Nodes (Star Wars), Leather Tuscadero (Happy Days), Nick Rivers (Top Secret!), Phoebe Buffay (Friends), Rowlf the Dog (The Muppets), Sex Bob-Omb (Scott Pilgrim VS The World), The Archies (The Archies), The Banana Splits (The Banana Splits), The Be Sharps (The Simpsons), The Max Rebo Band (Return of the Jedi), The School of Rock (The School of Rock) and The Soggy Bottom Boys (O Brother, Where Art Thou?).

When one class is announced, it means it is time to induct another.  The Preliminary Nominees for the Fictitious Rock Hall is now up.

You can vote for them here.

As always, we here at Notinhalloffame.com thank you for your support.

We might be ending 2020, but for the purposes of Notinhalloffame.com,  we are right in the middle of “Hall of Fame Season”.

Yesterday, The Poker Hall of Fame announced their newest entrant into the hall, Huck Seed, the winner of the 1996 WSOP.  Seed becomes the 59^thmember of the Poker Hall.

The process of the Poker Hall nomination is open, with all 31 living Hall of Fame members who have ten votes to distribute.  There was one absentee, so there was a total of 300 votes issued.  

The votes were:

Huck Seed: 76 Votes

Matt Savage: 51 Votes

Isai Scheinberg: 45 Votes

Eli Elezra: 30 Votes

Antonio Esfandiari: 23 Votes

Lon McEachern and Norman Chad: 20 Votes

Ted Forest: 20 Votes

Mike Matusow: 17 Votes

Patrik Antonius: 15 Votes

Chris Ferguson: 3 Votes

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like congratulate Huck Seed for entering the Poker Hall of Fame.

An undrafted player from Shippensburg, Brent Grimes was a World Bowl Champion with the Hamburg Sea Devils before he achieved greatness in the NFL.

Brandon Marshall was a really good Wide Receiver, but was he a Hall of Fame wide out?

Marshall was a fourth-round pick from Central Florida in the 2006 Draft by the Denver Broncos, and he was a starter the next season, where he put up three straight 1,100-yard seasons, two of which earned him a Pro Bowl selection. Marshall was dealt to the Miami Dolphins in 2010, playing there for two seasons, extending his streak of four-digit Yardage seasons, and earning a third Pro Bowl.  This was good, but his best was yet to come.

Joining the Chicago Bears in 2012, he had his first (and only) First Team All-Pro year when he set a personal best of 1,508 Yards.  Marshall had another 1,295 Yards, and was a Pro Bowler again.  After an average third year in Chicago, Marshall joined the New York Jets, and went for 1,502 Yards and led the NFL with 14 Receiving Touchdowns.

Marshall had one more good year with the Jets, but his skill eroded, and he bounced to the New York Giants in 2018 and the Seattle Seahawks in 2019.  He retired with healthy numbers of 970 Receptions, 12,351 Yards, and 83 Touchdowns.