The Halls of Mediocrity

Halls of Mediocrity Training Camp: 5 Pro Athletes, 5 Crimes — How Many Can Jeff Name? | Preview

Kevin Hall & Jeff Hall | Archive Podcast Network — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Patrick Kane punched a cab driver over 20 cents. Pat McAfee was arrested shirtless and soaking wet at 2am trying to break into the wrong car. One guy was arrested over 100 times. Another had no pants, no underwear, nothing. Five clues. Five athletes. Can you name them?

The Halls of Mediocrity launches July 14th, the second show from the Archive Podcast Network. In this preview clip, Kevin and his brother Jeff run a training camp drill: five clues, a running clock, and Jeff doing his best to identify the perp before time runs out.

Clue #1 - NFL Running Back: A career backup who never started more than four games in a season, arrested at Barry University for breaking into a dorm room and using a woman's laundry basket as a toilet.

Clue #2 - NHL, Three-Time Stanley Cup Champion: One of the most recognizable names in the sport, arrested in Buffalo at 5am for punching a cab driver in the face over a 20-cent fare dispute.

Clue #3 - MLB Gold Glove Second Baseman: A .254 career hitter pulled over in Tampa with seven cans of beer, a gram of cocaine, and leaving the scene of an accident. Police could not administer a field sobriety test at the side of the road. You'll understand why when you hear the clue.

Clue #4 - NBA Backup Point Guard: Played for six teams in ten years. Never averaged more than eight points a game. Arrested over one hundred times in his life. Best known as a Phoenix Sun.

Clue #5 - NFL Punter: Found shirtless, soaking wet, at 2am, trying to break into a car that wasn't his. Told police he thought it was. Now one of the most prominent media personalities in sports.

Jeff gets four out of five. Kevin gives him a solid B. July 14th is coming.

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OJ Simpson, Lance Armstrong, Michael Vick, and Pete Rose Walk Into a Quiz | The Halls of Mediocrity: Trailer #2

Kevin Hall & Jeff Hall | Archive Podcast Network — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:36:08 -0700

OJ Simpson is number one. Lance Armstrong is number four. And somehow Aaron Hernandez didn't make the top ten. The Halls of Mediocrity launches July 14th — and this is how we do research.

The Halls of Mediocrity is a new show from the Archive Podcast Network covering the athletes whose careers ranged from average to genuinely great — and whose lives off the field ranged from embarrassing to criminal to legitimately unforgivable. Hosted by brothers Kevin and Jeff Hall, the show takes a hard look at the falls from grace that sports fans never quite got over, and some they probably forgot about entirely.

In this trailer, Kevin and Jeff work through a quiz: the top 10 falls from grace in professional sports history, according to one article they found on the internet. A few are obvious. A few are genuinely surprising. And at least two of them belong higher on the list. The conversation covers OJ Simpson (#1), Joe Paterno (#2), Pete Rose (#3), Lance Armstrong (#4), Ben Johnson (#5), Marion Jones (#6), Tiger Woods (#7), Tonya Harding (#8), Michael Vick (#9), and Roger Clemens (#10) — plus a dishonorable mentions list featuring Aaron Hernandez, Oscar Pistorius, Chris Benoit, Jerry Sandusky, Gilbert Arenas, Lenny Dykstra, Ben Roethlisberger, and a notable omission that both of them find genuinely baffling.

(How is Mike Tyson not in the top ten?)

This is the show. Sports, crime, and the athletes who had everything and lit it ablaze!

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Trailer: Welcome to The Halls of Mediocrity

Kevin Hall & Jeff Hall | Archive Podcast Network — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:59:17 -0700

Welcome to The Halls of Mediocrity! The podcast that finally gives the backup quarterbacks, the .248 hitters, and the can't-miss prospects who missed their moment in the spotlight.

Brothers Kevin and Jeff Hall launch the newest show on the Archive Podcast Network with a conversation that goes exactly where you'd expect. From the 1984 Detroit Tigers' unsung heroes to the Bad Boy Pistons, from Dennis Rodman's loaded shotguns in the Palace parking lot to the traveling circus of 1980s professional wrestling, this trailer is a taste of what's coming.

The Hall brothers aren't just here to talk stats. A .252 average isn't going to blow anybody's socks off — but a couple of DUIs and a crack cocaine conviction? Now you've got a show.

Every episode profiles a professional athlete whose career, post-career, or both went spectacularly sideways. The mediocre, the overhyped, the forgotten, and the ones who somehow found their way back. It's going to be fun. It's going to be serious. And some of it is going to be genuinely hard to hear.

But rest assured — it will never be boring.

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