Not in Hall of Fame News

The Pro Football Hall of Fame might just be mixing it up a bit. Currently, a the 46 member selection committee is made up of a media member representing each NFL team, a member chosen by the Pro Football Writers of America and thirteen at large delegates. According to Pro-Football Talk, this is about to change. They have reported that there will be an announced change that will have modifications that would allow current Pro Football Hall of Fame members to be a part of the election process.  What those are? At present, we have no idea, but it was…

Tim Hudson has quietly announced that he will be retiring at this year’s baseball season.  The 40 year old San Francisco Giants Pitcher cited that “it was time” and he is currently holds the most Wins (222) of any active Pitcher.  Hudson balances that out with only 132 Losses and currently has well over 2,000 career Strikeouts with a healthy 57.4 career bWAR. Hudson broke in with the Oakland Athletics in 1999 and would have a very productive year in 2000 where he went 20 and 6, leading the American League in Wins and was the runner up for the…

It is a sad day for Baseball, the New York Yankees and the witticisms as Yogi Berra passed away at the age of 90 due to natural causes.  The Hall of Fame Catcher and three time American League MVP was one of the best hitting Catchers of all time and holds the distinction of playing in more World Series Games than anyone else.  Berra would win ten World Series rings as a player and three as a coach and would retire as a player with 358 Home Runs and 1,430 Runs Batted In. The popular Catcher would become known not…

The finalists for the second full class for the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame have been announced.  Like the first full year, voting on the candidates are open to the public and began with an initial round of Preliminary Nominees and then was pared down to Semi-Finalists. Last year saw Ricky Vaughan (Major League), Roy Hobbs (The Natural) and Crash Davis (Bull Durham) and Harry Doyle (Major League) emerge as the first full class joining inaugural inductee, Rocky Balboa. This year the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame will be inducting fictional characters from three categories, Athletes, Contributors and the new…

We here at Notinhalloffame.com have been open about the fact that we modeled both our Fictitious Athlete and Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in regards to the Preliminary, Semi-Final and Finalists rounds.  As such, we are very excited that the preliminary nominees for the 2016 Pro Football Hall of Fame have been announced.  The nominees (and the respective ranking they have if they are on the Notinhalloffame.com Football list) are below. An “x” denotes that he is a returning Finalist, a “y” that he is a first year nominee. Quarterbacks: Drew Bledsoe (#77) y-Brett Favre (#1) Steve McNair…