Last November, The Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame announced Rocky Balboa as their inaugural inductee. The Class of 2014 will be decided on an online vote, which will conclude on November 30th of this year.
The opening round began with over 300 Athletes and 100 Contributors in the Preliminary Round, which was reduced to 50 Fictitious Athletes and 30 Fictitious Contributors in the Semi-Finalist Round.
After three months of voting open during the Semi-Finalist Round, the 15 Athletes and the 11 Contributors with the most votes have advanced to become the Finalists for the Fictitious Hall of Fame Class of 2014.
All previous votes have been wiped clean, and one ballot can be entered per person. This vote will be open to the public until November 30, 2014, when the top three vote getting Athletes and top vote getting Contributor will enter the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame.
The 15 Fictitious Athlete Semi-Finalists are:
Al Bundy (Married…With Children)
Apollo Creed (Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III & Rocky IV)
Bobby Boucher (The Waterboy)
Crash Davis (Bull Durham)
“Fast” Eddie Felson (The Hustler & The Color of Money)
Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
Jimmy Chitwood (Hoosiers)
Happy Gilmore (Happy Gilmore)
Hanson Brothers, The (Slap Shot)
Paul “Wrecking” Crewe ’74 (Burt Reynolds) (The Longest Yard)
Reggie Dunlop (Slap Shot)
Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn (Major League and Major League II)
Roy Hobbs (The Natural)
Sam Malone (Cheers)
Willie “Mays” Hays (Major League)
The 30 Fictitious Contributors Semi-Finalists are:
Carl Spackler (Caddyshack
Chubbs Peterson (Happy Gilmore)
Gordon Bombay (The Mighty Ducks Trilogy)
Harry Doyle (Major League & Major League 2)
Hayden Fox (Coach)
Jerry Maguire (Jerry Maguire)
Jimmy Dugan (A League of Their Own)
Mickey Goldmill (Rocky, Rocky II & Rocky III)
Morris Buttermaker (The Bad News Bears) ‘76
Mr. Miyagi (The Karate Kid)
Norman Dale (Hoosiers)
The 1989 Baseball film, Major League had three Finalists, the most of any movie. Adam Sandler (The Waterboy & Happy Gilmore) is the only actor to have two characters who made the Finalist Ballot.
Narrowly missing the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame Final Round were such notables as Daniel LaRusso (The Karate Kid trilogy), Al Czervik (Caddyshack), Randy “The Ram” Robinson (The Wrestler), Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez (The Sandlot), Clubber Lang (Rocky III), Ricky Bobby (Talladega Nights) and Jesus Shuttlesworth (He Got Game).
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The direct voting on the Athletic Finalists can be found here, and for the Contributor Finalists can be found here:
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