1962 Byrd Induction is Black Day for the Hall of Fame

In what would become a black day in the Hall’s history, Robert Byrd was inducted into the Hall of Fame. The Board of Directors considered Byrd, From West Virginia as the poster child for white supremacy. After Byrd’s good friend George Wallace was injured during a political campaign for president (shot 4 times) running on the “Ignorant and Stupid Ticket”, Mr. Byrd decided to distance himself from the anti-civil rights movement. While Mr. Byrd did not lose his last election, it appears he has lost most of his long term memory and bladder control. In any case, he no longer remembers ever being in the clan or posing for his official hall of fame photo. Mr. Byrd also has the dubious distinction of being the only recipient of the Silly Ass Hat Award to have actually shown up to be the Grand Marshal of the Buttscratch Halloween Parade.

1993- Jose Conseco

In May 1993, Jose was a Texas Ranger Baseball player (not to be confused with the Texas Rangers Lawmen). Jose was working for none other than George Bush Jr. Jose,not known for his intelligence, pitching, defensive play, taste in woman, manners, or class was playing right field against the Cleveland Indians. Right field is generally considered to be the place where you stick your worst defensive player so it wasn't a coincidence that Jose was in right field. Carlos Martinez hit a "routine fly ball" to Conseco. For a brief but soon to be immortal instant, Jose wore the ball on his hat. The ball then bounced of Conseco's head for a homerun. After careful deliberation, the selection committee decided that Conseco had, in fact, worn the ball on is hat and thus was fully qualified for induction into the Silly ass hat Hall of fame.

1971- George Bush Jr. was a Fighter Pilot???

Yep, That's George Jr in the cockpit of an F-102 fighter jet. The officer to Junior's left is the training officer who was conducting a pre-flight eval. George was upset as he did not know how to drive a "stick", couldn't believe the plane had no windshield wipers, stereo or cigarette lighter. Junior seemed to quiet down when he discovered the plane did have nuclear missiles and they were about 5,000 miles from Vietnam. Evidently, as a prank, someone had told Junior that Vietnam was in Arkansas and that he would be flying CAP (Combat Air Patrol) for a trucking Convoy headed to Little Rock. In any case, the superflous use of a flight helmet was teh deciding factor in Junioir's induction.

1963- My Favorite Martian

Ray Walston was a gifted actor and had many roles under his belt when in 1962, he was approached to work on a fantasy show about a Martian who comes to earth. The Martian hooks up with an earthling who happens to be a newspaper reporter, who keeps the Martians identity a secret. Everyone knows that a reporter would give up his mother for a story so the whole concept was a fairy tale. When awarding the 1963 Silly Ass Hat Award to Mr. Walston it never occurred to him that the photo at right would be how many of his fans would remember him.
The selection committee was upset with the entire show as it just didn’t square with the King James Version of the bible.Mr. Walston was at least spared the indignity of starring in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father'.



1981

While technically not a hat and certainly not appropriate attire for a normal heterosexual male, Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari donned woman’s clothes and wigs for their 1981 Television show “Bosom Buddies”.
Nominated by members of the liberal press, the fact that both Tom and Peter were chasing girls was what eventually saved their nomination, But unfortunately, it was too late for Scolari’s career.
Several member’s on the Board of Directors resigned over this winner stating that the whole idea was “Gay”.






1988

Michael Dukakis was actually a serious (as serious as a Democrat can be) candidate for President of the United States. Most people believe this photo more or less ended his political aspirations. Shortly after this photo was taken, the U.S. Military adopted it’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell policy on gays.”
Swarthmore College requested that Mr. Dukakis not mention his attendance at, and subsequent graduation from Swarthmore.