So long, Sports Illustrated

[Chongo94]

Get woke, go broke

 

[Brog]

Wasn't it SI that had that famous picture of Abe Martin and the football team sitting around the locker room at some game they were playing? Anybody have access to that great picture?

 

[Frogenstein]

Yes, that was SI. It was from the Cotton Bowl game were TCU defeated a Jim Brown led Syracuse.

 

[Chongo94]

Wasn't it SI that had that famous picture of Abe Martin and the football team sitting around the locker room at some game they were playing? Anybody have access to that great picture?

https://vault.si.com/vault/1999/07/26/moment-of-truth-there-was-no-action-in-the-tcu-locker-room-before-the-1957-cotton-bowl-but-what-marvin-newman-photographed-there-is-as-close-to-the-essence-of-sports-as-anything-that-happens-on-a-playing-field

 

[dawg]

Since swimsuit models may violate the family-friendly nature of the FFF, I’ll go with these instead:

 

[HFrog1999]

 

[An-Cap Frog]

The socialists on X a complaining that capitalism killed an iconic brand, that's a feature not a bug, buddy.

 

[FroginBedford68]

It is a sad day.

In SI's glory days, its writers included Dan Jenkins, Bud Shrake, Frank Deford, Roy Blount Jr., Peter Gammons, Joe Posnaski, Paul Zimmerman, Grant Wahl and many others. I was always excited when the magazine hit our mailbox every week. I would read it cover to cover.

Now, another piece of my youth is gone. Sigh. I will raise a glass to Sports Illustrated tonight - it was a wonderful magazine back in the day.

Jenkins and Shrake were products of the old Fort Worth Press...Great writers....

 

[FroginBedford68]

View attachment 15577View attachment 15578View attachment 15579Since swimsuit models may violate the family-friendly nature of the FFF, I’ll go with these instead:

The feature that was related to this pic was a masterpiece of writing....It could have been applied to any college team, but since it was about TCU, it was even greater....

 

[PurpleBlood87]

 

[ShreveFrog]

Perhaps the mag started going underwater with this garbage in ‘07.

 

[tetonfrog]

Jenkins and Shrake were products of the old Fort Worth Press...Great writers....

I gave my pops a Dan Jenkins book that compiled all his old SI golf articles from the archives. He read it cover to cover in two days - great stuff from the vault.

 

[campdavid23]

I guess the tranny Swimsuit Edition wasn't the financial blockbuster they were hoping for...

SI: "Where did we go wrong?"

lets try Martha Stewart…

 

[froginmn]

Perhaps the mag started going underwater with this garbage in ‘07.View attachment 15583

"Aggies on a run" may have been the worst part.

 

[froginmn]

Didn't even know about that 23 cover. Are they publishing a swimsuit issue this year, or will that be the last one ever?

Wow

 

[tcudoc]

Didn't even know about that 23 cover. Are they publishing a swimsuit issue this year, or will that be the last one ever?

Wow

I had not heard that trans stuff either, or even the Martha Stewart stuff. You’d think with as much negative publicity as Bud Light got, that would have been an even bigger deal.

 

[Wexahu]

I had not heard that trans stuff either, or even the Martha Stewart stuff. You’d think with as much negative publicity as Bud Light got, that would have been an even bigger deal.

There's zero doubt the magazine took a very noticeable hard left turn (or whatever you want to call it) in the past decade. Seemed like every other article, if not more than that, in recent years was pushing an agenda as much as anything else, and I'm sure that hastened its demise.

I don't understand that strategy.

 

[tcudoc]

There's zero doubt the magazine took a very noticeable hard left turn (or whatever you want to call it) in the past decade. Seemed like every other article, if not more than that, in recent years was pushing an agenda as much as anything else, and I'm sure that hastened its demise.

I don't understand that strategy.

I haven’t read it in decades. If true, I am not sad for their demise. It seems it was self-imposed.

 

[Spike]

"Aggies on a run" may have been the worst part.

Thats probably what caused the global warming

 

[jack the frog]

I haven’t read it in decades. If true, I am not sad for their demise. It seems it was self-imposed.

I didn’t know SI was still in print. That goes back to Circus magazine and the monthly HBO guide mailing for me.

Also, SI helped popularize the burkini hijab swimsuit apparently.