The raddest sports posters

I can't find evidence of this at the moment, but I think it was Felton Spencer who was the genesis of the term "posterize." I believe his quote, about Jordan, was along the lines of you'd better not hesitate against him, or else you'll end up on a poster.

So here is Spencer getting posterized by A.C. Green:

(I believe a sure way to be posterized is to be a big man coming late on help defense inside.)

 

Not a fan of his, but I thought this was a bad motherfucking poster:

 

I wonder how many of these would be considered too politically incorrect by today's standards...

 

Had this one up for years as a kid:




Had this one in HS:

 

If your mom was hot Steve Garvey might have come over to sign it!

 

The Jim Everett poster looks like a gay porn movie cover. From the 80s!

 

This was the one on my wall in junior high. I appreciated that they were somewhat subtle with the reference to "The Natural":

 

Wow, that Jim Everett one is incredibly bad.

 

When Montana went to the Chiefs, I took his 49ers poster and altered it by recoloring it and drawing in the Chiefs logo...yeah, I had time on my hands when I was a kid.

I also liked the old SI NBA posters that had the team's arena at the top or bottom along with 6 shots of the starts and 6th man.

 

I did. Cool thread.