3rd Annual FDH Lounge Pantheon balloting Feb 17

By Rick Morris

The 3rd FDH Lounge Pantheon balloting will be held in conjunction with our February 17 episode of THE FDH LOUNGE on SportsTalkNetwork.com (usual Wednesday night broadcast time of 7-10 PM EST).

In July '08 and July '09 we inducted our first two classes into the FDH Lounge Pantheon, which celebrates the best of all time in a range of different categories. In keeping with the overall variety of the show, eight categories are dedicated to sports and eight are non-sports and also in keeping with tradition, our entire show on February 17 will be dedicated to unveiling the winners and breaking any ties on the air if necessary (several ties were broken during the first two Pantheon programs).

For last July's voting, we moved beyond our hand-picked members of The FDH Academy of Arts and Sciences to throw open voting among all friends of the FDH Lounge/FantasyDrafthelp.com Facebook account. We will maintain this practice. All of our Facebook friends can return their ballots via Facebook email and for any interested parties who are not yet Facebook friends, send us a request. We can be easily found here: http://www.facebook.com/thefdhlounge .

Here was the charter class of inductees, from our July 20, 2008 episode (with a full rundown of the show here):

Best President: Ronald Reagan
Best Country other than the US: Canada
Best Motion Picture: The Godfather
Best Thespian: Kevin Costner
Best Female Bombshell: Raquel Welch
Best Musical Performer/Group: Bon Jovi
Best TV Show: All In the Family
Best TV/Movie Cartoon Character: Bugs Bunny
Best Comic Book Character: Superman
Best Pro Wrestler: Ric Flair
Best Football Player: Jim Brown
Best Basketball Player: Michael Jordan
Best Race Car Driver (from any circuit): Richard Petty
Best Hockey Player: Wayne Gretzky
Best Baseball Pitcher: Nolan Ryan
Best Baseball Hitter: Babe Ruth

Here was our second class of inductees, from our July 22, 2009 episode (with a full rundown of the show here):

Best Pro Sports Coach/Manager: Paul Brown
Best Sporting Event: Super Bowl
Best Fantasy Sport: Football
Best Olympic Sport: Hockey
Best Sportscaster (Play-By-Play): Vin Scully
Best Sportscaster (Color Commentator): John Madden
Best Sports Movie: Bull Durham
Best Movie Villain: Joker (Heath Ledger version)
Best Pro Wrestling Manager: Bobby Heenan
Best Video Game (Non-Sports): Grand Theft Auto
Best Musical Guilty Pleasure: Phil Collins air drum solo to "In the Air Tonight"
Best Non-U.S. City: Toronto
Best U.S. City: New York City
Best Political Scandal: Watergate
Best Seinfeld Episode: The Soup Nazi
Best TV Commercial Character: Mr. Whipple

And here is the ballot for our third class of inductees. Again, we urge anybody and everybody to vote via Facebook if you are not among those who have already been privately sent a ballot by us. Join us on February 17 for what past history tells us will be one of our most fun programs of the year.

BEST SPORTSWRITER:
BEST UNDER-APPRECIATED ATHLETE:
BEST HEAVYWEIGHT BOXER:
BEST NON-HEAVYWEIGHT BOXER:
BEST MIXED MARTIAL ARTS COMPETITOR:
BEST SINGLE SPORTING EVENT OR GAME EVER:
BEST SPORTS GENERAL MANAGER/EXECUTIVE:
BEST SPORTS STADIUM OR ARENA:
BEST SPORTS VIDEO GAME:
BEST PRO WRESTLING TAG TEAM:
BEST LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST:
BEST TV DRAMA OR COMEDY CHARACTER:
BEST FOREIGN CUISINE:
BEST COMEDIAN:
BEST LIVE MUSICAL PERFORMER:
BEST SANDWICH: