Why don't we put the actual athletes in the Halls of Fame?

Well?!

What, in formaldehyde?

Because the athletes have better places to be?

They move too fast.

That would be ten kinds of awesome!

Future Futurama episode…

Mom could always stop by whenever the kids wanted QT with dad.

I understand that’s what Ted Williams had wanted…

Because their families might look for them eventually. Well, a few of them might.

They already did something pretty similar to that - there’s an episode featuring the Hank Aaron XXIV (voiced by Hank Aaron), the worst blernsball player ever, as a living exhibit in the sport’s hall of fame. A part-time exhibit, anyway. He’s also the worst football player ever.

Just realized that most children of HOFers would be adults. A few visitis per year should cover it. But we’d have to work out a conjugal visit scheme for the wives and/or babymamas.

Who says they don’t? I have some athletes in my basement Hall of Fame. It’s very well soundproofed, and the police have yet to find it.

Do any of them argue with you about who should be in your hall of fame?

Better hope that Antonio Cromartie doesn’t make that HoF…the visits with his babymamas would bankrupt the place. As Wikipedia notes:

That’s nothing, for a pro athlete. Wilt Chamberlain is believed to have slept with about 10,000 women. I’m sure that well over eight of those ended up pregnant as a result.

Hey Ripken, are you about a size 16?

Actually it would be pretty cool if deceased Hall of Famers were actually buried at the Hall of Fame sites. I doubt you could convince all the players and their families to agree to it though.

Minor correction: Chamberlain said he slept with 10,000 women. He was laughed at and I don’t think anybody believed him. I’m sure he did sleep with a ton of women and had his share of children.

So that’s where Lloyd Moseby is!

It puts the jersey on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.

Wow, father of 9 at age 27? He’s going to be so, so broke.