OldSchoolBoy75
Guru
I was going to chide Don for making that immense faux pas but at the risk of being labeled a fanboy I gave him a free pass--but only once! LOL!
Sports Illustrated used to be a good magazine at one point and its layout back in the late '70s-mid '80s was awesome! It started going downhill starting around 1991 (didn't everything started to go that way around that time??). SI never really ventured down the path of chest-beating when it came to their own political agenda before the '90s. Sport magazine, on the other hand, did (and this was a magazine I did like to read back in the '80s). Sport wasted no time in trumpeting the poor, persecuted Neegrow in any way they could. I have the entire year of 1984 issues in my collection and they managed to portray Dale Murphy as some sort of pariah for being Osmondesque, the Brigham Young football team for being Osmondesque (and not very friendly towards worshipping blacks-sniff sniff), the New York Mets for being a horrible baseball team, some white baseball pitcher (his name escapes me at the moment) for being--GASP!--"right wing". Interestingly enough, they had the balls to publish letters to the editor which opposed their agenda. Sport magazine folded years ago, and it's not a surprise. Its last good year was around 1988-89.
The sports media will always treat Mandarich like a piece of merde. I can remember SI doing a story on him back in the early '90s which probably had the same content as this recent article contained. Yada yada yada...
Edited by: OldSchoolBoy75
Sports Illustrated used to be a good magazine at one point and its layout back in the late '70s-mid '80s was awesome! It started going downhill starting around 1991 (didn't everything started to go that way around that time??). SI never really ventured down the path of chest-beating when it came to their own political agenda before the '90s. Sport magazine, on the other hand, did (and this was a magazine I did like to read back in the '80s). Sport wasted no time in trumpeting the poor, persecuted Neegrow in any way they could. I have the entire year of 1984 issues in my collection and they managed to portray Dale Murphy as some sort of pariah for being Osmondesque, the Brigham Young football team for being Osmondesque (and not very friendly towards worshipping blacks-sniff sniff), the New York Mets for being a horrible baseball team, some white baseball pitcher (his name escapes me at the moment) for being--GASP!--"right wing". Interestingly enough, they had the balls to publish letters to the editor which opposed their agenda. Sport magazine folded years ago, and it's not a surprise. Its last good year was around 1988-89.
The sports media will always treat Mandarich like a piece of merde. I can remember SI doing a story on him back in the early '90s which probably had the same content as this recent article contained. Yada yada yada...
Edited by: OldSchoolBoy75