Sports Illustrated

[Ben Sharp Arrow]

I think there is a thread on this already but I can't find it.
I haven't really read it since about my junior year in high school when my parent's got me a subscription. I concur that they have gone way down hill the last 2 decades.
But in July of 99' their issue came out and it was an 8 page mini-bio on wr Tim Dwight. I swear to God I must have read that thing over 50 times that summer. It did nothing but talk glowingly about Dwight who has always been one of my favorite football players.
I'm not sure if anybody knew this but after Dwight when playing rookie ball for the Falcons and returned that kickoff in the super bowl for a td Dwight enrolled back to Iowa ( his alma ) and graduated but unbeknownst to me at the time he ran on the Iowa track team while still on the Falcons roster. He won the Big Ten 100 meter title as well that Spring with a wind legal 10.31. Pretty cool stuff.
Now its just drivel and I guarantee SI will never extol a guy like Dwight ever again.

 

[wile]

Tim had to give back a small sum of money to a car dealership he did some promo work for if my memory is correct to be allowed to run track for Iowa when he went back. Imagine today he could have made more money NIL than a rookie contract.

 

[Don Wassall]

I have a small trove of old Sports Illustrateds from the 1960s and '70s that originally were my stepfather's. Most of them are from '66, '67 and '68, years when American society was rapidly changing, especially 1968, though ongoing relentless revolutionary change has been a constant since JFK was assassinated. I like to read when eating by myself and so sometimes I'll pick one and browse through it. I mentioned one of the issues in another thread (can't recall which one), particularly the ads compared to now -- about 99% White people, of all ages with all dressed smartly and looking content, not in the fake smile and fake ultra-enthusiastic way we see now, but rather just confident and comfortable in their own skin. There was still a natural rapport and harmony between men and women then, since utterly smashed by toxic feminism and Cultural Communism.

The articles were the same as today but different, longer and more in-depth, and there were regular columns on bridge, fishing, hockey and other topics. Golf was covered heavily and Jack Nicklaus had his own weekly column. Many of the in-depth articles were very well-written, irreverent and captivating. There were more Whites written about compared to today of course, but the overall flavor was mainstream liberal for that era. But as this country has moved relentlessly leftward, much of it now seems quaint, relics of a nation which no longer exists.

I was a young kid in the 1960s and read those Sports Illustrateds at the time. Reading them now brings back a lot of memories both good and bad, but mostly good, especially compared to the disgusting Globohomo Babylon we live in now. I've intended to write "book reviews" of some of the issues, but as with so many things will likely never have the time to do so.

 

[white lightning]

I used to love reading the magazine for decades when they hadn't gone full caste commie mode. The last current sports illustrated that I have is with Christian McCaffrey on the
cover. I doubt it will ever be what is was but the older issues are great. Any older magazines are like a trip back to the past. The same reason I love yard sales, flea markets, and
places like Goodwill. Also antique shops and of course classic car shows. The past was and will always be fascinating! Keep reading those Don. We need to remember the good
times. Especially now. America is falling but hopefully the rebirth of our country can get back to alot of the things we love. Think local with everything.

 

[Flint]

I also had a subscription for years. I ended up taking the covers and pasting them on my basement wall.

The magazine always trended liberal but of course the liberal views of the 60’s/70’s would make you a conservative racist nazi today.

Don will probably remember the cover below. I first saw it at a friends house who’s older brother had a subscription. Hit us like a ton of bricks. People don’t much remember Tony C these days but at the time he was the Mike Trout of his day. He still holds the record for HR’s by a teenager.

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[Don Wassall]

Tony Conigliaro's career began with so much promise and ended tragically, as did his life. He died when he was just 45. Maybe the beaning he suffered contributed to his later health problems. This is from Wikipedia:

On January 9, 1982, then 37-year-old Conigliaro was in Boston to interview for a broadcasting position when he suffered a heart attack while being driven to the airport by his brother Billy. Shortly thereafter, he suffered a stroke and lapsed into a coma. Conigliaro never fully recovered and suffered slight brain damage due to the stroke, until his death more than eight years later, in February 1990, at the age of 45 from pneumonia and kidney failure. In commemoration, the Red Sox wore black armbands that season.