My Sports Gods

The idea behind this website is to give an opportunity to sportslovers around the world to have a say in who they believe the greatest athletes of their time are. 

The concept of a hall of fame is not a new one but a forum allowing anyone, anywhere to nominate and subsequently vote online for athletes of any sport to be inducted in a worldwide all sport’s hall is.  And then discuss with folks the merits of those who have been inducted, shortlisted or so far ignored. 

Each month members of the site will have an opportunity to nominate who they feel is worthy of being inducted, this list of nominations will then be collated into a shortlist of 10 athletes who will be put to a vote with 5 athletes being inducted into the hall each month.

 The first 3 weeks of each month will be open for nominations and the final week will be for voting based on the shortlist.

 The exact mechanism for this is not set in stone but for now every registered member is welcome to nominate three athletes in the Nomination forum pending my setting up a more automated method.

The genesis of the All Sports Hall of Fame concept was  at www.sportsfrog.com on their chat zone called the swamp which is the best sporting online community I have seen and is well worth a visit.

I really want this site and the hall to keep an international flavour with as many contributors and sports involved as possible, this being the case, no more than three athletes from the same sport will make a monthly shortlist and no more than two athletes from the same sport will make the hall in any month’s inductions.

This endeavour is not a sprint but a marathon and thanks in advance for all of you who join with me in trying to set up something different and fun as we kick this thing off.

Please follow this link - http://www.mysportsgods.com/phpBB2/index.php  to get to the site proper and enter your nominations after spending a minute or so registering and then return to vote on and discuss the first shortlist and induction.

This is my first foray into being more than a user of websites so expect this site to improve as I get to grips with the different technologies and apps its built on.