RIP Sports Illustrated?

[Big 8 Rules]

I’m torn. This “magazine” had become little more than a TMZ knock off, but man when I was a kid I couldn’t wait until my weekly SI showed up in the mailbox every Saturday. I loved that magazine, and anytime there was a cover shot of a local KC hero like George Brett, Lenny Dawson, Tom Watson … well that was all that much cooler. I still remember my very first issue I got as a subscriber … Sonny Sixkiller on the cover. I had just turned 11 the week before and this birthday present subscription from my older sister showed up in the mailbox. A great birthday present.

 

[Toadman005]

Sadly (for me more than anyone here) print has been dead or dying for decades. Their choice to lean into wokeness and then the AI scandal, and their demise was all but inevitable. A shame, but, you’ll - we- will always have the memories. And issues we horded.

 

[Big 8 Rules]

Sadly (for me more than anyone here) print has been dead or dying for decades. Their choice to lean into wokeness and then the AI scandal, and their demise was all but inevitable. A shame, but, you’ll - we- will always have the memories. And issues we horded.

Back in the day, if I wasn’t outside screwing around on bikes or playing ball with friends, I was probably downstairs in the family room with a Coke and either a SI or a Mad magazine.

 

[Toadman005]

Back in the day, if I wasn’t outside screwing around on bikes or playing ball with friends, I was probably downstairs in the family room with a Coke and either a SI or a Mad magazine.

Swimsuit issue? Can’t blame you.

 

[DieSonneTeufeln]

I woulda bet AG would be the first to reference the swimsuit issue but here comes family man Toad from somewhere in the back. Haha
Sonny Sixkiller a UW great was also in the original Longest Yard. Nice work OP!

 

[TechRaiderRider]

Back in the day, if I wasn’t outside screwing around on bikes or playing ball with friends, I was probably downstairs in the family room with a Coke and either a SI or a Mad magazine.

or the sears n roebuck cataloge...

 

[batchaps4me]

Back in the day, if I wasn’t outside screwing around on bikes or playing ball with friends, I was probably downstairs in the family room with a Coke and either a SI or a Mad magazine.

Do you by chance have the Sidd Finch issue? That was the greatest article ever printed in a magazine and it is not even close.

 

[Hard2Bluff]

I always wanted that football phone, free with a subscription...

 

[DJ Fieri]

SI's Fan Nation was where my sports message board career kicked off.....way back in 2007.

 

[Big 8 Rules]

Do you by chance have the Sidd Finch issue? That was the greatest article ever printed in a magazine and it is not even close.

I got nada. Didn’t save a single issue.

 

[batchaps4me]

I got nada. Didn’t save a single issue.

You have to remember the story though, and all the commotion it caused.

 

[AlaskaGuy]

I woulda bet AG would be the first to reference the swimsuit issue but here comes family man Toad from somewhere in the back. Haha
Sonny Sixkiller a UW great was also in the original Longest Yard. Nice work OP!

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Sonny Sixkiller is a Washington born and raised GOAT. With that said SI didn't do itself any favors by putting a tranny on the cover of the swimsuit edition. I mean like wtf were they thinking.

 

[DieSonneTeufeln]

Sonny Sixkiller is a Washington born and raised GOAT. With that said SI didn't do itself any favors by putting a tranny on the cover of the swimsuit edition. I mean like wtf were they thinking.

I haven’t opened an SI since I threw a jerk to Kathy Ireland in ‘87, who’s the tranny they used?

 

[AlaskaGuy]

I haven’t opened an SI since I threw a jerk to Kathy Ireland in ‘87, who’s the tranny they used?

No idea, just some mentally ill dude.

 

[DieSonneTeufeln]

No idea, just some mentally ill dude.

Bud Light 2.0?

 

[AlaskaGuy]

Bud Light 2.0?

Another prime example of trying to keep that ESG score up while killing off an iconic brand name.

 

[Toadman005]

Sonny Sixkiller is a Washington born and raised GOAT. With that said SI didn't do itself any favors by putting a tranny on the cover of the swimsuit edition. I mean like wtf were they thinking.

I beat ya to it.

 

[Toadman005]

I haven’t opened an SI since I threw a jerk to Kathy Ireland in ‘87, who’s the tranny they used?

This was 2-3 years ago. A year after they started putting obese “body positive” models- and I ain’t talking about Kate Upton- on the cover, they put a legit swingin’ dick dude”ette” on their cover. Combined with the AI scandal and this is, honestly, overdue.

 

[Toadman005]

I haven’t opened an SI since I threw a jerk to Kathy Ireland in ‘87, who’s the tranny they used?

She went that far back? I recall her from late 80’s/early 90s.

For uh, similar….educational interests.

 

[Toadman005]

I woulda bet AG would be the first to reference the swimsuit issue but here comes family man Toad from somewhere in the back. Haha
Sonny Sixkiller a UW great was also in the original Longest Yard. Nice work OP!

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Also,thank you…that’s among the finest compliments I’ve ever received my friend. It makes me proud that I’m known as a family man!