The Eastern Seaboard Propaganda Network Showed Love To Illinois/ Mt. Rushmore of Sports

So ESPN is running a time filler called the Mt. Rushmore of Sports. In it they allow fans to vote for the top four athletes associated with that state. This includes ALL sports and not just the major four. Sidenote: further proof that fans are retarded, Tim Tebow is on the Florida Mt. Rushmore. For the past week, ESPN ran the top five states that had the most votes and then revealed the top state. At first I was pissed because New York, California, Pennsylvania, and Alabama were all presented and ESPN wasn't going to show love to ANY Midwest state. But lucky me, Illinois was the fifth state presented.

I was happy with that. I was happy that my home state got some ESPN love. But to my surprise, Illinois was voted the best state Mt. Rushmore! While this is so extremely trivial, I'm just happy whenever ESPN devotes significant time to Chi-town.

Here's the four players Illinois picked:
-Michael Jordan: The greatest basketball player of all time
-Walter Peyton: One of the greatest football players of all time and the second greatest RB (next to the great Jim Brown)
-Ernie Banks: Two time NL MVP and has the most HR for a SS (or maybe a NL SS)
-Mike Ditka: One of, if not, THE greatest TE ever and a great coach

Notables left off the list:
-Red Grange: One of the greatest LB of all time. Played for Illinois football AND Da Bears
-George Halas: Mother fucker just invented football
-Bobby Hull: One of the greatest LW ever
-Jackie-Jorner Kearse: Great track star and Olympian
-Brian Urlacher: Say what you want about him now but mother fucker has been great
-Any from the 1985 Bears defense

Me personally, I would have replayed Banks and Da Coach with Hull and Halas (seriously, after all George Halas has done for football and for the Bears, how was he not even considered?)
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ESPN's First Take did a question of what would the Mt. Rushmore of Sports look like for fictional characters. Here's what mine would look like:

Nuke LaLoosh (Tim Robbins): Bull Durham
Rocky Balboa (Sly Stallone): Rocky
Norman Dale (Gene Hackman): Hoosiers
Irv Blitzer (John Candy): Cool Runnings

What's yours?