A major apology is owed to all of you.
As you have seen, we have been very busy with the creation of our new Fictitious Athlete and Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall of Fames, and for that matter the continued expansion of our core site. That being said, the new logo for Notinhalloffame.com was actually done months ago, not that long after we asked all of you who it should replace KISS on the banner.
That informal questionnaire did not exactly result in any one artist who was the runaway winner. In fact, it would be accurate to say that their was a bit of a ten way tie between Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, New Order, Janet Jackson, Joan Jett, Chicago, Iron Maiden, Roxy Music, The Moody Blues and Journey.
Without even an act that led by even a small margin, we looked to our own rankings, and have selected Deep Purple to gain the visual on the Notinhalloffame.com logo.
If we go by history, this is no minor decision. The first man who inhabited our Rock portion of the filmstrip was Alice Cooper who was inducted shortly after we launched the website. Cooper was replaced with Rush, who at that time had never been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That year, the Canadians received not only their first nomination but also a prompt induction.
We figured that KISS would be on the logo for awhile, even when they were nominated for what was the second time, we thought Jan Wenner’s hatred for the kabuki painted band would keep them out. It didn’t, and once again we found ourselves having to find a new act to take over the spot and the band that gave us Smoke on the Water are now to be featured prominently until they are inducted.
Considering that they were not nominated this year, this could be a little longer than expected, and perhaps we should have put the new logo up sooner so that we could have “helped” them get enshrined.”
Overall the logo has not helped those who have been on our Baseball panel as Barry Bonds who used to have it and Pete Rose who once had the slot do not seem very close to Cooperstown. Legendary broadcaster and Canadian icon, Don Cherry has been represented on the logo from the beginning and he is still being passed over by the Builders Committee. The same snub has been said for the late Randy “Macho Man” Savage, who longtime fans of the WWE have been clamoring for.
We are very curious to see which person and what year we will remove the next person from our logo. We promise to replace it much sooner than we did this year!
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