Committee Chairman
Steve Smith to retire at the end of the year
Smith is entering his second (and final) season with Baltimore after spending the first thirteen seasons of his career with the Carolina Panthers. Seven times, Smith eclipsed 1,000 Yards Receiving in a season and in 2005 he would lead the NFL in both Receptions and Yards Receiving. A two time First Team All Pro, Steve Smith currently ranks 14th in Yards and a 800 Yard season would put him in the top ten, and improve his Hall of Fame probability, even in an era with inflated numbers for wideouts.
Is Steve Smith Sr. a Hall of Famer? We’re not sure that he is, but another Pro Bowl season, or a deep playoff run by the Ravens could put him over the top.
The 2017 Hockey Futures are up
This came with an updated list, a few new entries (Alex Kovalev, Roman Hamrlik and Miroslav Satan) and a shuffling of positions based on your votes, emails and comments.
Now once we do the repositioning on the main section, we fee it is our duty to address and upload potential entries that will come up in coming years, and allow you to vote ahead of time, BEFORE it gets on to the list without receiving your input.
With that in mind, lets take a look at part 1 of 2 of our revised hockey futures shall we?
First off, the 2015 and 2016 Futures have been removed completely. Those players who were in the sections previously but were not able to make the Top 100 (as they are all now eligible) are no longer featured on Notinhalloffame.com, that is unless we expand to 250, which we have discussed!
The 2017 Futures Section includes the following:
Daniel Alfredsson, a former superstar for the Ottawa Senators and Calder Trophy winner. The Swedish born player retired with over 1,100 career Points and a 0.93 Points per Game Average.
Ed Jovanovski, an excellent two-way defenceman and five time All Star.
Jean Sebastien Giguere, the Conn Smythe Trophy winner with the Anaheim Ducks.
Nikolai Khabibulin, a four time All Star and durable Goalie who was a part of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 2004 Stanley Cup win.
Ray Whitney, a 1,000 Point scorer, a one time Second Team NHL All Star and a member of the Carolina Hurricanes’ first Stanley Cup Championship.
Ryan Smyth, a star player for the Edmonton Oilers who led the NHL in Power Play Goals in the 1996-97 season.
Teemu Selanne, the “Finnish Flash”, is a three time NHL goal scoring champion and four time post season NHL All Star. Selanne is also a Bill Masterton Trophy winner and Stanley Cup Winner with the Anaheim Ducks.
Tim Thomas, a Goalie who was a First Team All Star twice and Conn Smythe Trophy winner with the Boston Bruins in 2011.
Todd Bertuzzi, a controversial player who was at one time, a First Team All Star in 2003.
Tomas Kaberle, a four time All Star and classy blueliner who recorded over 500 Points in the NHL.
Gang, you know what we want you to do!
Take a look, cast your votes and offer us your opinions!
As always, we here at Notinhalloffame.com look forward to your opinions and thank you for your support.
RIP: Frank Gifford
A new main logo for Notinhalloffame.com!
Maybe you noticed, maybe you didn’t, but we had a logo change here at Notinhalloffame.com.
Since the inception of our site in 2009, our core logo has always had an image of a filmstrip with four different potential Hall of Famers from respective fields. We have alternated from Pete Rose and Barry Bonds for baseball[1], Don Cherry for Hockey and in the past we have had Alice Cooper, Rush, Kiss (who would all get in) and now currently Deep Purple representing Rock and Roll.
The WWE, had always been represented by an iconic picture of Randy “Macho Man” Savage holding the Intercontinental Title. Savage had fallen so far out of favor with the WWE that it almost literally took his death and a few years in top of it to get him into the Hall.
With Savage’s induction, a new WWE figure was needed…something that pops out right away.
We have elected to go with former three time Tag Team Champions, Demolition.
I know what some of you might be thinking. Ax and Smash aren’t even in your top twenty-five and there has been little push for them to get in. That may be, however this was a very popular team in their day, and damned if that look doesn’t stick out on the logo!
Besides with Bruno Sammartino, The Ultimate Warrior and Randy Savage now in, the ones who are no longer active or deceased who NEEDED to be there are now there. That makes the other spot a lot harder to fill, so why not with a tandem of a former Masked Superstar and Soviet sympathizer?
For the record, here are the other wrestling personalities that had been considered to take the spot of the “Macho Man” on the Notinhalloffame.com logo.
“The British Bulldog”, Davey Boy Smith
So there it is.
Our current Notinhalloffame.com logo has Barry Bonds, Don Cherry, Demolition and Deep Purple.
Who will be the next one from our logo who will have to be removed because he/they got into their respective Hall of Fame?
As always, we here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to thank you for your support and look forward to your feedback!
[1] With the PED controversy, it seemed more appropriate to interject a steroids guy over a gambler. Notice we didn’t say “inject”!