The Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years: The Brackets

The votes for the last few spots in each bracket have been tallied, and the brackets for the Coolest American Man of the Last 100 Years are set!  

Here is who you voted in for the last few spots in each bracket (for some brackets, three spots were up for grabs, but for most, it was just two spots).  To the extent there were ties, I broke the ties based on how many of the judges (The Brothers Weeser*, minus Tim, and me) voted for the man and then who had the highest 1-8 vote from one of the judges:

Living Athletes
6.  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
7.  Bo Jackson
8.  Hulk Hogan

Dead Athletes
7.  Chuck Bednarik
8.  Frank Gifford

Living Hollywood
7.  Samuel L. Jackson
8.  Warren Beatty

Dead Hollywood
6.  Marlon Brando
7.  Jimmy Stewart
8.  Burt Reynolds

Living Musicians
7.  George Clinton
8.  Lenny Kravitz

Dead Musicians
7.  James Brown
8.  Johnny Cash

Living Other
7.  Ted Turner
8.  Bill Gates

Dead Other
7.  George Carlin
8.  Howard Hughes

Thanks to your help, we have the final seeding.  Here's what we have.  Some were unanimous.  Some were not.  It's not perfect, but it's how we (and you) voted on things (with a link to their Wikipedia page and a brief description, just in case you don't know who they are):

The Dead Man's Bracket
Athletes
1.  Wilt Chamberlain:  The most dominant basketball player of his time; scored 100 points in an NBA game; had sex with over 20,000 women, according to him.
2.  Muhammad Ali:  If I have to tell you who Muhammad Ali is, you deserve to die; greatest boxer that ever lived; social justice campaigner; one of the greatest elocutionists there ever was; slays rocks; makes medicine sick. 
3.  Mickey Mantle:  The Mick; won 7 World Series; 20-time All-Star; hit a baseball farther than you and I ever will, combined; drank like a fish.
4.  Ted Williams:  Arguably the greatest hitter ever; interrupted his MLB HOF career to serve in both WWII and the Korean War; won the MLB MVP twice, after serving in WWII.
5.  Jackie Robinson:  Broke the color barrier; was a four-sport star at UCLA; served in the Army, despite their blatant racism.
6.  Joe DiMaggio:  Hit in more consecutive games than any of us did; was married to Marilyn Monroe; Mr. Coffee.
7.  Chuck Bednarik:  NFL Hall of Famer; the last true two-way player in the NFL; flew 30 combat missions over Germany in WWII; has the crookedest finger you've ever seen; tackled Frank Gifford in one of the most famous hits in NFL history.
8.  Frank Gifford:  Hot shot football player and announcer, despite being jacked up by Chuck Bednarik; better looking than most of us; married Kathy Lee Gifford, 23 years his younger.

Others considered:  Lou Gehrig; Pete Maravich; Moonlight Graham; Sweet River Baines

Hollywood
1.  Paul Newman:  Better looking and nicer than either of us; also a race car driver and salad dressing magnate.
2.  James Dean:  A rebel without a cause; Academy Award winner; horrible driver.
3.  Bruce Lee:  Essentially popularized kung fu films; created his own martial art; changed the way Asians were characterized in American films;
4.  John Wayne:  Universal badass, despite the fact that his real first name is Marion; western movie star; knew Wyatt Earp.
5.  Steve McQueen:  Hardened actor; race car and motorcycle enthusiast; avoided being killed by The Manson Family.
6.  Marlon Brando:  One of the greatest actors ever; The Godfather; Stanley Kowalsksi; could have been a contender.
7.  Jimmy Stewart:  Academy Award-winning actor; took a break from acting to serve as a combat pilot in WWII; highest-ranking actor in military history.
8.  Burt Reynolds:  He's the Bandit; best mustache ever; women consider him very sexy despite his very hairiness.

Others considered:  John Belushi; Johnny Carson; Robert Mitchum; Bing Crosby; Clark Gable; Humphrey Bogart; Dennis Hopper; George Peppard

Musicians
1.  Elvis Presley:  The King of Rock & Roll; had to be filmed from the waist up on live television for fear of the sexual response in females; served in the Army.
2.  Frank Sinatra:  The Chairman of the Board; legendary crooner and leader of the Rat Pack; Academy Award winning actor.
3.  Prince:  Made purple cool; one of the greatest guitar players and all-around musicians ever; better at basketball than you might expect.
4.  Jim Morrison:  Lead singer of The Doors; arguably the first "rock star"; tormented genius; 27 Club member
5.  Miles Davis:  Jazz trumpeter and composer; arguably the most important jazz musician of the latter half of the 20th Century; one of the progenitors of the cool jazz genre.
6.  Jimi Hendrix:  Inarguably the greatest and most influential guitar player ever; Army paratrooper; 27 Club member
7.  James Brown:  The Godfather of Soul; pioneered funk music; hell of a dancer; was a hardass.
8.  Johnny Cash:  The Man in Black; country music legend; voice for the outlaws, outcasts, and forgotten.

Others considered:  Dean Martin; Tupac Shakur; Lou Reed; Joey Ramone; Warren Zevon; Stevie Ray Vaughan; Chris Cornell; Isaac Hayes

Other
1.  Hugh Hefner:  Founder and longtime publisher of Playboy magazine; arguably the most important figure in the sexual revolution; steadfast First Amendment and sexual rights promoter
2.  Ernest Hemingway:  Possibly America's greatest writer ever; hell of a drinker; lover of Key West.
3.  Hunter S. Thompson:  Gonzo journalist; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; remains shot out of a cannon at his funeral.
4.  Anthony Bourdain:  Celebrity chef turned food travel journalist; wrote Kitchen Confidential; liked the sauce.
5.  Steve Jobs:  Co-founder of Apple; revolutionized computers and phones; wore turtlenecks even when they were out of fashion.
6.  Evel Knievel:  The most famous daredevil; jumped a whole bunch of things on a motorcycle; almost jumped Snake River Canyon in a rocket
7.  George Carlin:  Legendary and influential stand-up comedian; came up with the seven things you can't say on television.
8.  Howard Hughes:  Film producer; record-setting pilot; airline magnate; philanthropist, including major donor for medical research.

Others considered:  Jack Kerouac; John Dillinger; John Glenn; Carroll Shelby; George Patton; Jackson Pollock; Andy Warhol; Williams S. Burroughs; Timothy Leary; Ken Kesey
Norman Borlaug; DB Cooper; Herb Kelleher

The Living Man's Bracket

Athletes
1.  Michael Jordan:  The greatest there ever was; he'll dunk on you, smoke a cigar, and then dunk on you again, and then bang your wife, and then dunk on you again; biggest killer instinct you've seen.
2.  Jim Brown:  Arguably the greatest running back ever; and did it without wearing hip or thigh pads because they slowed him down; civil rights activist; better lacrosse player than he was a football player, which is saying something.
3.  Tom Brady:  You know this motherfucker; only 5-time Super Bowl winning QB; is married to a Brazilian supermodel.
4.  Joe Namath:  Guaranteed victory (accurately) as the QB for the biggest Super Bowl underdogs; great legs; attempted to kiss Suzy Kolber on live television; Broadway Joe.
5.  Joe Montana:  Joe Montana.
6.  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar:  NBA's all-time leading scorer; civil rights activist; was an actor in arguably the greatest comedy of all-time; tall.
7.  Bo Jackson:  Only two-sport all-star ever; broke a bat over his knee multiple times; ran over The Boz; knows everything; could shoot you with an arrow right now, no matter where you are.
8.  Hulk Hogan:  Defended the world against communism as a pro wrestler; 24-inch pythons. 

Others considered:  Shaquille O'Neal; Charles Barkley; Lebron James; Derek Jeter; Dennis Rodman; Brian Bosworth; Don Mattingly; Alex Rodriguez; Ken Griffey, Jr.; Tony Hawk; Deion Sanders; Mark Spitz; Mike Ditka; Andre Agassi

Hollywood
1.  Brad Pitt:  If you don't know who Brad Pitt is, you are not reading this.
2.  Clint Eastwood:  Dirty Harry; Academy Award winning director; has never gotten emotional about anything.
3.  Matthew McConaughey:  Alright; alright; alright.
4.  Robert Redford:  Stud actor; Academy Award winning director; founder of the Sundance International Film Festival
5.  George Clooney:  Small recurring role in TV's The Facts of Life; instant coffee hawker.
6.  Michael Douglas:  Hollywood royalty; Academy Award winning actor; married to Catherine Zeta-Jones
7.  Samuel L. Jackson:  Has a wallet that says "Bad Motherfucker"; highest all-time box office star based on total U.S. gross
8.  Warren Beatty:  Clyde Barrow; legendary actor and director; only person to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film (twice, no less!); Carly Simon may or may not have written a song about his vanity.

Others considered:  Will Smith; Denzel Washington; Dwayne Johnson; Bill Murray; Keanu Reeves; Leonardo DiCaprio; Bradley Cooper; Harrison Ford; Lee Majors; Sylvester Stallone; Robert DeNiro; Tom Selleck; Johnny Depp; Michael J. Fox; Dana Carvey; Mark Wahlberg; Charlie Sheen; Ashton Kutcher; Chris Pratt; Peter Fonda; Billy Dee Williams; Mr. T; Paul Rudd; Richard Roundtree

Musicians
1.  Bruce Springsteen:  The Boss; has won Grammy Awards, Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award; 
2.  Dave Grohl:  Member of arguably the best hard rock band of the last 25 years; was in Nirvana before that; didn't cancel tour after breaking his leg.
3.  Justin Timberlake:  Multi-talented singer, dancer, and actor; dick in a box.
4.  Slash:  Founder and lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses; trademark black top hat, long curly hair, and sunglasses.
5.  Jay-Z:  Hip hop legend; music magnate; clothing magnate; former NBA part-owner; married to Beyoncé.
6.  John Mellencamp:  The Coug; voice of the Heartland; still alive despite the fact that he used to smoke 5 packs a day; was married to supermodel Elaine Irwin; has dated Christie Brinkley and Meg Ryan.
7.  George Clinton:  One of the founders of funk music and arguably the genre's most famous name, both as a member of Parliament-Funkadelic and as a solo artist; influenced countless musicians and artists since the '70s; crazy hair and crazier outfits.
8.  Lenny Kravitz:  Multi-Grammy-winning rock and roller; ex-wife is Lisa Bonet; also dated Adriana Lima and Nicole Kidman, among others

Others considered:  Axl Rose; Kanye West; Jon Bon Jovi; Bruno Mars; Andre 3000; Pharrell Williams; Questlove; Eddie Vedder; Henry Rollins; Iggy Pop; Neil Diamond

Other
1.  Chuck Yeager:  Famous test-pilot; first-ever human to break the speed of sound; fought or participated in WWII, Vietnam, and Cold War.
2.  Howard Stern:  Syndicated DJ; "shock jock."
3.  Mark Cuban:  Billionaire; internet broadcasting pioneer; "maverick" owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks.
4.  Buzz Aldrin:  Famed astronaut; second person to walk on the moon; flew 66 combat missions as an Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War.
5.  Stephen King:  The King of Horror; most famous horror writer of all-time; his books and short stories have been the basis for many movies, including Carrie, The Shining, Stand By Me, The Green Mile, and The Shawshank Redemption; donates millions of dollars each year to libraries, fire departments, schools, and other organizations.
6.  Warren Buffett:  The Oracle of Omaha; billionaire who still lives in the same modest home in Omaha he purchased in 1958; pioneer of value investing; philanthropist who has pledged to give 99% of his fortune to charity.
7.  Ted Turner:  Cable media mogul; founded CNN and TBS (and the Goodwill Games); was married to Jane Fonda; longtime owner of the Atlanta Braves.
8.  Bill Gates:  Co-founder of Microsoft; billionaire; co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has helped global health initiatives (such as the near eradication of polio).

Others considered:  Lee Iacocca; Steve Wozniak; Mark Zuckerberg; Jeff Bezos

We want to give you a few days to soak everything in and consider how cool all these guys are -- and to be clear, they're all cool.  So, after careful consideration of multiple factors, including my own schedule, here will be the revised voting timeline:
January 15-17:  Round of 32
January 18-20:  Sweet 16
January 21-23:  Elite 8
January 24-26:  Semifinals
January 28-30:  Finals 

January 31-February 3:  Living champ vs. Dead champ