VOTE NOW: Overall Championship for The Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years

This is it, folks:  the overall championship for the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years contest.  It's Butch Cassidy vs. The Sundance Kid.  Cool Hand Luke vs. Bob Woodward. Fast Eddie Felson vs. Roy Hobbs.  Voting will be open until 11:30 p.m. Central on Sunday February 3.

If you need any background, here are a couple links to get you up to speed:
-Original post about the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years and the criteria for inclusion
-Post with the final brackets for both the Living Man's Bracket and the Dead Man's Bracket, along with the timeline of voting.
-Round of 32 voting results
-Sweet 16 voting results
-Elite Eight voting results
-Final Four voting results
-Dead Man's Bracket and Living Man's Bracket Champion voting results

Vote below on who is the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years.

Who is the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years?

Paul Newman (Dead Champ)

Robert Redford (Living Champ)

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RESULTS: Champions of the Dead Man's and Living Man's Brackets of the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years

Voting for the champions of the Dead Man's bracket and the Living Man's bracket of the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years is complete, and we now have your choices for the Coolest Dead American Man of the Last 100 Years and the Coolest Living American Man of the Last 100 Years.

Here's how you voted:

The Dead Man's Bracket
1-seed Hollywood Paul Newman topped 1-seed Other Hugh Hefner, 63%-37%.  

The Living Man's Bracket
In the battle of the 4-seeds, 4-seed Hollywood Robert Redford barely beat 4-seed Musician Slash, 53%-47%.

This sets up an all Sting/Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid championship for the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years.  Guess which one was the Sundance Kid.

We will post a separate post momentarily for championship voting.

VOTE NOW: The Dead Man's Championship and Living Man's Championship for the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years

We are on to the championship in both of the brackets in the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years contest.  Voting will be open until 11:30 p.m. Central on Wednesday January 30.

If you need any background, here are a couple links to get you up to speed:
-Original post about the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years and the criteria for inclusion
-Post with the final brackets for both the Living Man's Bracket and the Dead Man's Bracket, along with the timeline of voting.
-Round of 32 voting results
-Sweet 16 voting results
-Elite Eight voting results
-Final Four voting results

Vote below on who will advance to the championship in the Living and Dead brackets.

The Dead Man's Bracket

Dead Man's Championship

Paul Newman (#1 Hollywood)

Hugh Hefner (#1 Other)

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The Living Man's Bracket

Living Man's Championship

Slash (#4 Musician)

Robert Redford (#4 Hollywood)

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RESULTS: The Final Four for both brackets of the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years

Voting for the Final Four for both brackets of the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years is over, and there were some more upsets.

Here's how you voted:

The Dead Man's Bracket

In semi #1, 2-seed Athlete Muhammad Ali faced off against 1-seed Hollywood Paul Newman, and salad dressing won the day.  Newman won 63%-37%.  

In semi #2, 1-seed Other Hugh Hefner held off 3-seed Musician Prince, 53%-47%.

That sets up our Dead Man's final:  1-seed Hollywood Paul Newman vs. 1-seed Other Hugh Hefner.

The Living Man's Bracket

In the Living Man's bracket, the 4-seeds continued their surprising run.

In semi #1, 4-seed Musician Slash upset 1-seed Athlete Michael Jordan, 53%-47%.

In semi #2, 4-seed Hollywood Robert Redford sundanced into the finals by beating 1-seed Other Chuck Yeager, 60%-40%.

Your Living Man's final will be:  4-seed Musician Slash vs. 4-seed Hollywood Robert Redford.

We will post a separate post momentarily for Final Four voting.

Hair Band Friday - 1/25/19

1.  "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" by Def Leppard


2.  "Back in Black" by AC/DC


3.  "Animal" by Vinnie Vincent Invasion


4.  "Somebody Get Me a Doctor" by Van Halen


5.  "Shake Me" by Cinderella


6.  "Crying In the Rain" by Whitesnake


7.  "You're No Different" by Ozzy Osbourne


8.  "All Hell's Breakin' Loose" by Kiss


9.  "Song and Dance Man" by Warrant


10.  "Reckless Life" (live) by Guns N' Roses

VOTE NOW: The Final Four for both brackets of the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years

We are on to the Final Four for both of the brackets in the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years contest.  Voting will be open until 11:30 p.m. Central on Saturday January 26.

If you need any background, here are a couple links to get you up to speed:
-Original post about the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years and the criteria for inclusion
-Post with the final brackets for both the Living Man's Bracket and the Dead Man's Bracket, along with the timeline of voting.
-Round of 32 voting results
-Sweet 16 voting results
-Elite Eight voting results

Vote below on who will advance to the championship in the Living and Dead brackets.

The Dead Man's Bracket

Dead Man's Semi #1

Hugh Hefner (#1 Other)

Prince (#3 Musician)

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Dead Man's Semi #2

Paul Newman (#1 Hollywood)

Muhammad Ali (#2 Athlete)

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The Living Man's Bracket

Living Man's Semi #1

Michael Jordan (#1 Athlete)

Slash (#4 Musician)

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Living Man's Semi #2

Chuck Yeager (#1 Other)

Robert Redford (#4 Hollywood)

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RESULTS: Elite Eight Voting for Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years

Voting for the Elite Eight of the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years is over, and there were some more upsets.

Again, if there is a tie in the voting, the tiebreaker goes to the higher seed.  Here's how you voted:

The Dead Man's Bracket

Athletes
In a battle of the Rope-a-Dope against promiscuity, the Greatest prevailed.  2-seed Muhammad Ali topped 1-seed Wilt Chamberlain, 58%-42%, to win the title of Coolest Dead American Athlete of the Last 100 Years.

Hollywood
The Coolest Dead American Actor of the Last 100 Years isn't too much of a shocker.  1-seed Paul Newman held off 3-seed Bruce Lee, 57%-43%.  

Musicians
This was one of the brackets where the top two seeds went down in the Sweet 16, leaving 3-seed Prince and 4-seed Jim Morrison to battle for crown.  They ended in a tie, so Prince gets the nod because he was the higher seed.

Other
Aside from Dead Athletes, this was the only other bracket with a 1-2 matchup in the Elite Eight.  It wasn't much of a matchup.  Rampant boozing and cats with too many toes are no match for smoking jackets and bunnies.  1-seed Hugh Hefner destroyed 2-seed Ernest Hemingway, 78%-22%.

The Living Man's Bracket

Athletes
In the battle of Nike icons, 1-seed Michael Jordan took home the win over 7-seed Bo Jackson with the highest margin of victory in the Elite Eight, 87%-13%.

Hollywood
Apparently Robert Redford was underseeded at 4, as he edged out 3-seed Matthew McConaughey, 52%-48%, to earn the title of Coolest Living American Actor of the Last 100 Years.

Musicians
We also underestimated the coolness of a top hat, Les Paul, and a cigarette, as 4-seed Slash upset 2-seed Dave Grohl rather handily, 65%-35%.

Other
This one played out pretty much how we expected, with 1-seed Chuck Yeager cruising at the speed of sound past 3-seed Mark Cuban, 74%-26%, ending my dream that a Hoosier would be the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years.

The Final Four
So we have now arrived at the Final Four in both brackets, and I know what you're thinking:  "How the hell are you going to handle the Final Four?  And what if there are two guys with the same seed number?  What then?  What then?!"  Well, fair reader, here's what we're gonna do.  In both brackets, we are going to take the highest-remaining seed and pit him against the lowest-remaining seed, and then the other semi will be the other two remaining men.  In the event there are ties among seeds, the tie will be broken by average margin of victory in the previous three rounds.

With that, here are your Final Four matchups (with the average margin of victory where there were ties in seed numbers):

The Dead Man's Bracket
#1 Other - Hugh Hefner (71.3% avg. margin of victory) vs. #3 Musician - Prince
#1 Hollywood - Paul Newman (71.3% avg. margin of victory) vs. #2 Athlete - Muhammad Ali

The Living Man's Bracket
#1 Athlete - Michael Jordan (84% avg. margin of victory) vs. #4 Musician - Slash (36% avg. margin of victory)
#1 Other - Chuck Yeager (54.7% avg. margin of victory) vs. #4 Hollywood - Robert Redford (39.3% avg. margin of victory)

We will post a separate post momentarily for Final Four voting.

Retro Video of the Week: "Funky Cold Medina" by Tone Lōc

In this week's edition of Damn, I Feel Old, it was thirty years ago today that rapper Tone Lōc released his debut album, Lōc-ed After Dark.  The album shot up to #1 on the Billboard album charts by April 1989 and eventually went double platinum in the U.S.

Lōc-ed After Dark featured Tone Lōc's two most successful and recognizable songs:  "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina."  The former hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the latter went to #3.

I love both songs, but I'm going with "Funky Cold Medina" for this week's Retro Video of the Week.  What I love about classic '80s and '90s hip hop and rap is that it (unknowingly on my end) introduced me to various rock and funk songs that I would hear in their original form later and say "holy shit, that was the guitar riff in 'The Fuck Shop,'" or whatever it might be.  "Funky Cold Medina" may have been one of those songs for you, as it samples "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones, "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner, "Christine Sixteen" by Kiss, '"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and "Get Off Your Ass and Jam" by Funkadelic.

The song and video are about an aphrodisiac love potion named Funky Cold Medina that the song's narrator unwittingly uses on a woman who turns out to be a transvestite.  Oops!  And then he uses it on another woman, who wants to marry him.  Double whammy!  And then he realizes that you shouldn't mess with the Funky Cold Medina. 

Tone Lōc stopped regularly recording music after his second album, 1991's Cool Hand Lōc, to focus on acting.  I remember him best as Emilio in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.  I haven't seen him in anything recently, so I hope he hasn't gone the way of Roger Podacter.  

VOTE NOW: Elite Eight for Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years

We are on to the Elite Eight for the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years!  Voting will be open until 11:30 p.m. Central on Wednesday January 23.

If you need any background, here are a couple links to get you up to speed:
-Original post about the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years and the criteria for inclusion
-Post with the final brackets for both the Living Man's Bracket and the Dead Man's Bracket, along with the timeline of voting.
-Round of 32 voting results
-Sweet 16 voting results

Vote below on who will advance to the Final Four in the Living and Dead brackets.

The Dead Man's Bracket

Athletes

Dead Athletes

#1 Wilt Chamberlain

#2 Muhammad Ali

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Hollywood

Dead Hollywood

#1 Paul Newman

#3 Bruce Lee

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Musicians

Dead Musicians

#3 Prince

#4 Jim Morrison

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Other

Dead Other

#1 Hugh Hefner

#2 Ernest Hemingway

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The Living Man's Bracket

Athletes

Living Athletes

#1 Michael Jordan

#7 Bo Jackson

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Hollywood

Living Hollywood

#3 Matthew McConaughey

#4 Robert Redford

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Musicians

Living Musicians

#2 Dave Grohl

#4 Slash

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Other

Living Other

#1 Chuck Yeager

#3 Mark Cuban

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