Oh, what a special day.
When you run a website called Notinhalloffame.com, you are naturally obsessed with existing Halls of Fame. The natural progression is creating your own.
Actually, we have three!
The first one we built was the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame, in 2013, with Rocky Balboa enshrined as the inaugural inductee. Since that time, we have had an open vote where you, the people, decided who should be inducted.
In the years after, you have inducted into the Athlete wing, Roy Hobbs (The Natural), Crash Avis (Bull Durham), Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn (Major League), Happy Gilmore (Happy Gilmore), Reggie Dunlop (Slap Shot), The Hanson Brothers (Slap Shot), Charlie Conway (The Mighty Ducks) Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez (The Sandlot), Apollo Creed (Rocky), Willie “Mays” Hayes (Major League), Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump), Bobby Boucher (The Waterboy), Paul “Wrecking” Crewe (The Longest Yard), Dottie Hinson (A League of Their Own), Daniel LaRusso (The Karate Kid), Clubber Lang (Rocky), Ivan Drago (Rocky), “Fast” Eddie Felson (The Hustler & The Color of Money, Al Bundy (Married...with Children), Homer Simpson (The Simpsons) and Johnny Lawrence (The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai).
After a delayed vote, (let’s say due to COVID-19), the Class of 2021 is now official based on your votes, staggered over three stages.
This year, the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame Athlete Wing welcomes:
Jake Taylor: Major League & Major League 2. Taylor (Tom Berenger) joins his fellow teammates from Cleveland, Ricky Vaughn and Willie “Mays” Hays into the Hall. The veteran Catcher would later parlay his wits into an interim managerial role with the team.
Jimmy Chitwood: Hoosiers. Chitwood (Maris Valainis) finally enters the Hall after making the Final round four previous times. His skill took small town Hickory to the Indiana State Basketball Championship in 1954, an upset of epic proportions.
Sam Malone: Cheers. A finalist every year since we have been doing this, “Mayday” (Ted Danson) brings his five years as a Red Sox Relief Pitcher into the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame.
You can view their complete bios here.
The Contributor Wing has previously inducted Harry Doyle (Major League), Carl Spackler (Caddyshack), Mr. Miyagi (The Karate Kid), Chubbs Peterson (Happy Gilmore), Gordon Bombay (The Mighty Ducks), Mickey Goldmill (Rocky), Morris Buttermaker (The Bad News Bears), Coach Ernie Pantusso (Cheers), Adrian Balboa (Rocky), Jimmy Dugan (A League of Their Own), and the Gopher (Caddyshack).
This year, the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame Contributor Wing welcomes:
Norman Dale: Hoosiers. In the same year that Jimmy Chitwood finally enters, another perennial Finalist from Hoosiers enters with Norman Dale (Gene Hackman). Dale led Hickory to a win at State, and atoned for many of his past misdeeds.
Paulie Pennino: Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV and Rocky V. Paulie joins the Rocky series brethren as the downtrodden sister of Adrian, and eventual cornerman of the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World.
You can view their complete bios here.
The Veteran Wing has previously inducted Andy “Champ” Purcell (The Champ), Dennis Ryan (Take Me Out to the Ball Game), Guffy McGovern (Angels in the Outfield), Huxley College (Horse Feathers), Sport Goofy (Disney) and Joe Hardy/Joe Boyd (Damn Yankees).
This year, the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame Veteran Wing welcomes:
Harold Lamb: The Freshman. Lamb played college football for Tate University, and the undersized talent got the girl at the end.
Voting has now begun for the Class of 2022, which we hope you will take part in.
As always, we thank you for your support, and we are excited to keep this project alive!
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