Welcome to Fans of Mediocrity. This site is dedicated to the athlete who never had what it took to become a real superstar, the sort of guy you think about once every three or four months only to laugh at his futile attempt to ever do anything significant. Then when your buddy brings him up you laugh to yourself having forgotten that said player ever existed. Our goal here at Fans of Mediocrity is to honor all the careers (whether short lived or painfully long) of players who were really really good backup quarterbacks and starting pitchers such as Gus Frerotte or Jamie Moyer, draft busts such as Ryan Leaf and Rick Mirer, and the timeless wonders such as Vinny Testaverde and Steve DeBerg.
You will read about athletes from all the major sports. Look forward to exciting posts and pictures of Steve Trachsel, Bernie Kosar, Jeff George, Paul Pressey, Jeff Ruland, Esteban Yan, and many more!
The site will be run by me (Blake) and Alex. We both live in Connecticut and we both get a chuckle when debating the Hall of Fame candidacy of Drew Bledsoe.
If there is an athlete you would love to see covered here, just leave the suggestion as a comment and we’ll get right on it. Enjoy!
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- Drew Bledsoe has an astoundingly mediocre career passer rating of 77.1
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- Steve Trachsel’s career ERA of 4.39 epitomizes mediocrity
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- The “jounrey-man” Steve Deberg played for 6 different NFL teams!
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- Luke Walton will never escape the shadow of his legendary father, Bill Walton.
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- “Big Sexy,” the strike-out king!
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- Rodney Peete: 87 career starts in 14 NFL seasons
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- Detlef has the dubious honor of being the NBA’s 6th Man of the Year twice!
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- Trent Dilfer: Superbowl quarterback and 1-time pro-bowler!
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- John Starks: Made an entire career off of one dunk
That’s easy. My favorite quarterback ever.
Steve Walsh.
Yes. Consider it added to the list.
Everyone’s Tiger Barbaro Garbey. Need an update.
I love Jeff George, but if Chad Pennington, the comeback player of the year… twice, isn’t added to the list I think you would be cheating the fans on mediocrity.
Agreed. Among the smartest and nicest QBs ever to have such a mediocre arm.
Fans of Jeff George should check back on Monday. Seriously.
What about every quarterback to ever play for Chicago at least while with Chicago???
Mitch “WildThing” Williams or maybe John Kruk. Aruably the two best mullets in sports history
Was John “Crash” Mengelt of the Pistons good enough to be called mediocre?
I have never heard of Mengelt. However, I did some reading and he sounds pretty interesting. I’ll do my best.
Thanks for all of the suggestions.
Congrats Blake for the new site! Added to my feedreader – definitely interested; sounds fun!
john starks did way more than the dunk.
How about baseball pitcher Mike Morgan? He pitched for twelve different teams, somehow made an All-Star team, won a World Series, yet finished with a losing record and a h4 something ERA. Mr. Mediocre.
I notice Shawn Bradley’s picture on this site and I think he is worthy of a post. He seems to be the definition of what this site is about. The 2nd pick in the NBA draft who once in awhile would simply dominate a game and is in the top 10 all time of blocks. However, in other games he was simply abysmal.
There is a lot of hate geared towards him on the internet, but it is misguided. Anyone with a shred of common sense knows the combination of a 7’6 mormon & Philadelphia=disaster. Then sending him to New Jersey is the same recipe. The only place he could have succeeded was Utah and he even led Dallas past the Jazz in a huge playoff series. This only furthers his justification for a post. Please write more in-depth about Bradley.