If you’ve been following this blog for any amount of time, you may remember that back in 2007, I gave out the first Great Great Man Award to Nick Lachey. Later that year, I named Patrick Swayze as the second winner. In 2008, I took it to a vote and Enrique Iglesias won the award. For the fourth award, I took a poll on this very website to find a new winner.

Beating out the likes of Tim Lincecum, Big Dave Meltzer, Brandon Walsh, and Bill Simmons is our fourth winner, “The Coach” Dan McEathron.

These two men were grandfathered into the Great Great Man Hall of Fame because of this video, which was taken at JJ’s 7th birthday.

Rather than write the history of The Coach, I decided to give him a call and we recorded a 30-minute podcast. You’ll learn about Dan’s childhood, how he met my cousin Tomiko, and what three movies you’ll watch at an all-night Coach movie party.

Also, you can take the poll on the right-hand side of the page to select the 5th winner of the Great Great Man award.

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Based on our vote in late September to find the third recipient of the Great Great Man Award, you may already know the winner.

Our first winner was a man whose sloppy seconds Tony Romo is currently enjoying. He simply said, “What’s Left Of Me?”.

Our second winner was a man for which the term, “I’m ghost like Swayze” was created in his honor.

Onto our third winner. One of his two middle name’s is Preysler, and I’m not sure if it’s an ode to Elvis, but it would be a great story if it was. He’s the son of a famous singer whose most popular song was about all the girls he’s loved before, and then did cover of a song that in English, translates to “Kiss Me Much.” What a great man he is.

This young lad recorded several albums in Spanish and earned a decent sized U.S. fanbase while never really recording much music in English. It wasn’t until 1999 that he was truly discovered by America after his song Bailamos was chosen to be on the soundtrack to Will Smith’s terrible movie Wild Wild West.

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Fellow readers of this fantastic blog, I need your help. My community, please help me.

I am going to give away my third Great Great Man Award, but I want you to help me choose who deserves it most.

I am going to give you 4 options, and your job is to select who you believe should be the recipient and then vote in the comment section below.

Here are your options:

A. Dave Meltzer
Why he should win – I’ve read every single copy of his newsletter “The Wrestling Observer” since 2001, and they come out every week. And he’s the only one on the list who I’ve met in person.

Why he shouldn’t win – Eddy Zucko makes fun of his clothes from the time he met him while working at Gold’s Gym.

B. Brandon Walsh
Why he should win – He’s simply the man.

Why he shouldn’t win – He’s not necessarily real. Well he is, but it’s still just a character. But a damn good one.

C. Enrique Iglesias
Why he should win – He’s a pimp. He always gets hot women. I’ve used him in “The Adventures Of Low Jones”.

Why he shouldn’t win – He hasn’t had a hit record in years. And he has a terrible hairy mole.

D. J – T – O
Why he should win – He’s going to be a pop culture phenomenon thanks to me.

Why he shouldn’t win – It’s just too soon.

Here were the past two winners.

Nick Lachey
Patrick Swayze

Please vote in the comments section below. I will wait for about a week until I determine who will be the next recipient.

If I could nominate a twosome for the Great, Great Man Award it would be these two gentlemen.

You see, last weekend was Double J’s 7th birthday party. Eddy Zucko and Shoesless Mike were there and decided to play some games with the kids. As I was taking pictures, I decided to slide the setting to the video setting and shoot some video as they just looked like they were having such a great time.

Just two great men.

Great Great Man Award #1

Our second Great Great Man award winner has been in many classic movies. He’s a classic thespian with great hair. If you had to put your finger on when steroids might’ve come into Hollywood, you might point to the movie The Outsiders where our great man posed shirtless for a few seconds and women all over the world felt all tingly and snuggly. Our great great man is also supposedly a fan of big, wobbly knockers, but I haven’t been able to confirm that just yet.

Our great great man has compared a love lost to wind. He’s a dancer. He’s danced with people like Jennifer Gray and even the ever photogenic Whoopi Goldberg. His last name is used in pop culture lingo. You want to be referred to as ghost, or gone? You’re referred to by this man’s last name. He’s outdone Rupaul, Wong Foo, and Julie Newmar, all without even breaking a sweat. And most importantly, he didn’t allow Baby to be put in a corner.

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