We have another retirement from football to discuss as Montreal Alouettes Quarterback Josh Freeman has ended his career at the age of 30. This ends a career that was full of so much promise yet it ended with a losing record and no Pro Bowls.

Still, let’s take a look.

Freeman was Tampa Bay’s first round pick in 2009 (17th overall) out of Kansas State. The Quarterback came with high expectations and after taking the starting job midway through his rookie season he was cemented as the starting pivot in 2010 and this was arguably his best season in professional football. The Buccaneers went 10 and 6 and narrowly missed the post season. Freeman threw for 25 Touchdown passes against only 6 Interceptions and he was an alternate for the Pro Bowl.

2011 would see Tampa regress and Freeman threw 22 Interceptions. 2012 would see a career high in Passing Yards for Freeman (4,065) and Touchdown Passes (27) but his Interception number was still high with 17.

The Buccaneers would bench Freeman early in 2013 due to poor performance and he would be released following other issues. Freeman signed with the Minnesota Vikings but he was ineffective in the lone game he started. His last game in the NFL was a start with the Indianapolis Colts in 2015 and he tried to resurrect his career in 2018 with Montreal in the CFL, but while he signed he was to be on the bench.

We will create a profile for Freeman in our 2021 Football Futures, though we do not expect much support for him, and with all due respect to the Quarterback there is no reason to think his name will cross the breath of anyone who votes for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. If he were to get into any significant Hall of Fame, it would be that of Kansas State.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to wish Josh Freeman the best in his post-playing career.

It’s that time again!

Last December, our Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame announced it’s fourth full class as voted by a one year long vote by the public.

That class saw Bobby Boucher (The Waterboy), Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump) and Willie “Mays” Hayes (Major League) join previous inductees, Apollo Creed (Rocky), Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez, Charlie Conway (The Mighty Ducks), The Hanson Brothers (Slap Shot), Reggie Dunlop (Slap Shot), Happy Gilmore (Happy Gilmore), Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn (Major League), Crash Davis (Bull Durham), Roy Hobbs (The Natural) and Rocky Balboa, the inaugural inductee.

Like in previous years, the opening round began with over 300 Fictional Athletes and over 100 Contributors, which has now been reduced to 50 Fictional Athletes, 20 Fictional Contributors and 5 Veterans for the Semi-Final Round.

The Finalists for each respective category are as follows:

The 50 Fictitious Athlete Semi-Finalists are:

A.C. Slater (Saved by the Bell)

Adonis Creed (Creed)

Al Bundy (Married…With Children)

Al Czervik (Caddyshack)

Alex Moran (Blue Mountain State)

“All the Way” May Mordabito (A League of Their Own)

Amanda Whurlitzer (The Bad News Bears)

“Big Ern” Ernie McCracken (Kingpin)

Billy Chapel (For Love of the Game)

Bud (Air Bud)

Bugs Bunny (Space Jam)

Cal Naughton Jr. (Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby)

Chazz Michael Michaels (Blades of Glory)

Clubber Lang (Rocky III)

Daniel LaRusso (The Karate Kid)

Dave “Killer” Carlson (Slap Shot)

Dean Youngblood (Youngblood)

Derice Bannock (Cool Runnings)

Dottie Hinson (A League of Their Own)

Doug “The Thug” Glatt (Goon)

“Fast” Eddie Felson (The Hustler & The Color of Money)

Flash Gordon (Flash Gordon)

Greg Goldberg (The Mighty Ducks)

Hamilton Porter (The Sandlot)

Henry Rowengartner (Rookie of the Year)

Ivan Drago (Rocky IV)

Jackie Moon (Semi-Pro)

Jake Taylor (Major League)

Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski (The Big Lebowski)

Jimmy Chitwood (Hoosiers)

Johnny Lawrence (Karate Kid)

Kelly Leak (The Bad News Bears)

Kevin “Thad” Castle (Blue Mountain State)

Lee (Enter the Dragon)

Lightning McQueen (Cars)

Monty Brewster (Brewster’s Millions)

Paul “Wrecking” Crewe (The Longest Yard, 1974)

Pedro Cerrano (Major League)

Peter LaFleur (Dodgeball)

Randy “The Ram” Robinson (The Wrestler)

Ricky Bobby (Talladega Nights)

Roy “Tin Cup” McAvoy (Tin Cup)

Sam Malone (Cheers)

Sanka Coffee (Cool Runnings)

Scott Howard “The Wolf” (Teen Wolf)

Shane Falco (The Replacements)

Shooter McGavin (Happy Gilmore)

Tanner Boyle (Bad News Bears)

Ty Webb (Caddyshack)

The 10 Fictitious Contributors Semi-Finalists are:

Adrian Balboa (Rocky)

Annie Savoy (Bull Durham)

Cameron Tucker (Modern Family)

Claudia (Kingpin)

Coach Ernie Pantusso (Cheers)

Coach Klein (The Waterboy)

Darcy Sears (Varsity Blues)

Hayden Fox (Coach)

Jerry Maguire (Jerry Maguire)

Jimmy Dugan (A League of Their Own)

John Kreese (The Karate Kid)

Ken Reeves (The White Shadow)

Lacey Underall (Caddyshack)

Lou Brown (Major League)

Luther Van Dam (Coach)

Morris Buttermaker (The Bad News Bears)

Ray Kinsella (Field of Dreams)

Terrence Mann (Field of Dreams)

The Gopher (Caddyshack)

The 6 Fictitious Veterans are:

Frank Capua (Winning)

Harold Lamb (The Freshman)

Huxley College (Horse Feathers)

Joe Boyd/Joe Hart (Damn! Yankees)

Online voting can be found here: http://www.notinhalloffame.com/the-voting/2018-fictitious-athlete-second-round

The Finalists for all three categories will be announced in September of this year.

You know what we want you to do!

When you gave a chance cast your vote!

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

In an interview with Cleveland.com Def Leppard’s lead guitarist Phil Collen discussed the band’s omission from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:

“We don’t actually care because everyone does it for us…We treat everything – Grammy’s, al that stuff as irrelevant…If that’s your main focus, there’s some life lessons to be learned.”

Def Leppard has been eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2004 and not only have they not been inducted into the Hall they have never been nominated. Despite this, Collen pointed out to Cleveland.com that he had no issue with the Hall itself and the people who work there…just the voting committee. Collen had this to say and the relationship he has with the actual Hall itself:

 "Rush and KISS should have in there a long time ago…KISS is one of the biggest bands in the world and they were treated with disrespect. But not by the people who work there…I love the people at the museum…They take great care of me and our museum. It's just the voting panel.”

He also discussed with Cleveland.com on how he retrieved a guitar that was on display at the Hall for a gig during the last time he played the city:

The axe in question was his famed glow-in-the-dark guitar with Bela Lugosi’s image on it.

"It was in a case, I got it out and my guitar tech strung it out…I played it for the show and it was back in the case the next morning.''

Collen joined the band in 1982 during the Pyromania recording sessions.

Def Leppard is currently ranked #41 on Notinhalloffame.com.

The NASCAR Hall of Fame has announced the Class of 2019, which comprises three former drivers Jeff Gordon, Davey Allison and Alan Kulwicki and two current owners Jack Roush and Roger Penske.

To be inducted you had to appear on the most ballots amongst the other 15 nominees. There were 57 ballots in total, which included an online fan vote.

Without question, Gordon is the headliner and he would receive 96% of the vote (how did he not appear on all of the ballots?) Gordon was a four time Winston Cup Champion (1995, 1997, 1998 & 2001) a three time Daytona 500 winner (1997, 1999 & 2005) and the overall winner of 93 races on the NASCAR circuit. Perhaps more importantly he was the face of NASCAR for over a decade and his success transcended the sport. He appeared on mainstream talk shows, hosted Saturday Night Live and arguably exceeded levels of mainstream popularity that no other car driver had in the United States and as such raised the profile of the sport.

Davey Allison had 19 NASCAR wins in what was an abbreviated career. Allison, who was the 1987 Rookie of the Year died at the age of 33 in a helicopter crash in 1993. He is the son of NASCAR Hall of Famer, Bobby Allison.

Alan Kulwicki also died in 1993, his demise coming by way of an airplane crash. Kulwicki was the Winston Cup Champion in 1992 and won 5 races over his NASCAR career.

Jack Roush is the co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing and since he began owning cars in 1988 he has accumulated 137 wins on the NASCAR Cup Series.

Roger Penske has been a team owner since 1972 and his drivers boast 108 wins. He was also a track owner in the 1990’s.

This is the tenth Class for the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com have not a very good job in updating our NASCAR list in the past two years but we will endeavor to fix that this summer.

We would like to congratulate all of the new members of the 2019 NASCAR Hall of Fame Class.