The Death of Sports Illustrated

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jsc1973 said:
I still have that issue over 38 years later. It was the first time in my lifetime that Tennessee had a team good enough to compete with anyone in the country.
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I have it too! The morning of the game I played mud football w/ AGR guys, broke my nose bad. Made emergency room give me local anesthesia to reset it instead of going under b/c there was no way I was missing that game.
 
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Last one I bought:

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HalfullVol said:
SI was great in every way back in the day.

So much awesome sports content AND the swimsuit edition.

Nowadays, however, get woke - go broke.

DEI mandates can be poison in many cases.
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Yep, when they put Bill Clinton on the cover I cancelled after many, many years. Not because it was Bill, but politicians don’t belong on the cover. It went way down hill from there.
 
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Dansky said:
Yep, when they put Bill Clinton on the cover I cancelled after many, many years. Not because it was Bill, but politicians don’t belong on the cover. It went way down hill from there.
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That's silly.

It was the 1994-95 Sports Illustrated College Basketball Preview edition, and strictly light-hearted fare. Arkansas was the defending champ and ranked #1. Sports Illustrated was just having fun with the President touting his home state team.

Ronald Reagan was on the cover of the 1984-85 Sports Illustrated College Basketball Preview edition with Patrick Ewing and Head Coach John Thompson of Georgetown in the fall of 1984. Was that a big deal? It shouldn't have been.
 
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VolTull said:
Agreed. No politician ever belonged on a SI cover regardless of party affiliation
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LOL. Lighten up. Both Reagan's and Clinton's cover stories were light-hearted fluff pieces, promoting the upcoming college basketball seasons. Not political in nature at all. Are we really this uptight now? Jesus. People will find offense pretty much anywhere now.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
LOL. Lighten up. Both Reagan's and Clinton's cover stories were light-hearted fluff pieces, promoting the upcoming college basketball seasons. Not political in nature at all. Are we really this uptight now? Jesus. People will find offense pretty much anywhere now.
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I don't generally get into politics on here...

It's amazing how the death of things we loved is always "the other side's fault" and never those profiting the most?

There's a lot to be mad about these days. It can't help but bleed into everything.
Unfortunately, we've fallen into tribalism, instead of holding the people we elect to OUR will instead of their's.

There is no culture war, only a class war. We all have more in common with our peers. Maybe we should listen the people in front of us and not on a screen or magazine.

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They never had a chance in this woke culture. They’ve consistently put fat chicks and trans “women” in the swimsuit edition in recent years.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
LOL. Lighten up. Both Reagan's and Clinton's cover stories were light-hearted fluff pieces, promoting the upcoming college basketball seasons. Not political in nature at all. Are we really this uptight now? Jesus. People will find offense pretty much anywhere now.
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You might be missing the point and also the reason SI lost market share. Why would they consider the NCAA basketball preview as an opportunity for a fluff price? SI was a sports publication for sports fans primarily, and secondarily a waiting room fodder
 
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Wireless1 said:
You might be missing the point and also the reason SI lost market share. Why would they consider the NCAA basketball preview as an opportunity for a fluff price? SI was a sports publication for sports fans primarily, and secondarily a waiting room fodder
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Tongue-in-cheek was always a part of their approach.

The 1963 George Plimpton preseason camp as QB with the Lions, the 1986 Sidd Finch April Fool's Day hoax with the Mets and their lengthy article on the fictional career of Sam Malone of the Boston Red Sox - as a tribute to the last episode of Cheers in 1993.

They did some significant journalistic work at times .... but never took themselves too seriously.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Tongue-in-cheek was always a part of their approach.

The 1963 George Plimpton preseason camp as QB with the Lions, the 1986 Sidd Finch April Fool's Day hoax with the Mets and their lengthy article on the fictional career of Sam Malone of the Boston Red Sox - as a tribute to the last episode of Cheers in 1993.

They did some significant journalistic work at times .... but never took themselves too seriously.
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Agree about the tongue and cheek ( loved the Sidd Finch) but if I wanted the political spin I’d read Mad Magazine
 
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JCHateSteve said:
I don't generally get into politics on here...

It's amazing how the death of things we loved is always "the other side's fault" and never those profiting the most?

There's a lot to be mad about these days. It can't help but bleed into everything.
Unfortunately, we've fallen into tribalism, instead of holding the people we elect to OUR will instead of their's.

There is no culture war, only a class war. We all have more in common with our peers. Maybe we should listen the people in front of us and not on a screen or magazine.

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Well said. I agree 👍

I hate it for nostalgic reasons,but when I worked as a magazine vendor for a couple of years a few years ago, I could see things like this happening. I don't know how many magazines I had to recycle due to lack of sales. Also, some don't translate to online and I could see how Sports Illustrated would be one of those that didn't make it.
 
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I kept an SI sub at $2 per year, even after they went monthly.

Lost any confidence in their credibility when every issue had at least one feature pushing some extremist social agenda. Using terms such as "lesbian goddess" (Rapinoe) just irritated me since I couldn't see the connection with an article on U.S. women's soccer. Featuring Collins on the cover and predicting an explosion of pro athletes "coming out" (never happened), featuring marginal athletes with modest accomplishments simply because they identify as "trans"...that sort of thing in every blooming issue...it just became a game each issue of "Find the woke culture item" each month.

Preaching to the wrong audience.
 
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