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Favorite SI covers

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by JackReacher, Sep 16, 2010.

  1. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    I have this framed in my basement, signed by everyone but Tom Verducci. Someone with the Jays helped me get the players' signatures, I don't know anyone at SI. Tom, if you're out there, drop me a PM! :)

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  2. ADodgen

    ADodgen Member

    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=1938

    I love the old covers.



    And a little love for the alma mater:
    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=1830
     
  3. Small Town Guy

    Small Town Guy Well-Known Member

    That's one of my favorite SI's for a different reason. It has a feature by William Nack on the Glenville High School football team from Minnesota, which was on its way to setting a record for most consecutive losses. During the reporting, the SI writer came to our hometown because we were facing Glenville. In fact, they very nearly beat us. It was huge news. SI is in town! It was only years later when I went back to look at the issue that I realized the writer was William Nack. Then I realized the cool factor increased about 100 percent. William Nack came to our town!
     
  4. Gutter

    Gutter Well-Known Member

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  5. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

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  6. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    That was a "Jump the Shark" cover for SI.
     
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  7. ADodgen

    ADodgen Member

    Bowling!
    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=1954
     
  8. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    You don't have your youth or the same perspective you had when SI was the only game in town.

    Start there, and 98% of your job is done. Because I could post volumes of things SI ran back then that you would laugh at if they ran today. Things like dog covers . . . This Week in Baseball . . . For the Record (AP-style wrapup of the week in agate size) . . . 6-page swimsuit edition . . . stories on hunting and fishing and motocross . . . Preview editions that previewed DIVISIONS instead of having stories/charts on each team. And so on.
     
  9. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I used to love their college football rankings in large part because they sometimes differed significantly from the one that counted.
     
  10. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    I always liked this one, both for the headline, and the sheer sublimity of seeing someone other than Tyson with the heavyweight belt. Plus, I like how Douglas wore the IBF title since the WBC and WBA tried to reverse the decision.

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  11. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Way back in 1979, my colleague George Kimball of the Boston Phoenix did a story on SI's 25th anniversary in which he pointed out that the mag ran cover art of about five different animals before putting a basketball player on the cover. Times change.
    FWIW, I still think SI is a decent read. A shorter read, like almost everything else, but still pretty good.
     
  12. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    I loved Ali and that what made being an SI reader so great in the 70s...

    The best fight I have ever seen....

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    The Champ is here!

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