The Swamp

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:49 am**

this is actually really cool. do you have the inaugural issue (Eddie Mathews?)

y i stopped subscribing probably around ~94 or so.

honestly was happy to read about this last night as one of my friends in our high school email thread has been sending SI links for years and nobody ever clicks on them anymore because they're shit - not just the articles but if you do mistakenly open it it's a flood of ads and popups. i'd rather he link us to xhamster, seems more safe.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 5:23 pm My father has been a subscriber my entire life and still is one now. In fact, he was a charter subscriber and I have almost every issue for the first year of SI.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 9:50 am**

I mean, at one point I had subs to both ESPN and SI and read both cover to cover (pretty much.) I don't recall when that stopped... somewhere in the 90s.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:50 am**

I totally forgot ESPN had a print magazine. They started that at the exact wrong time. I wonder how much money that lost in all.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 11:49 am**

Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:30 pm I actually had to Google to see if they still put out a print magazine. They do, but it's monthly now. I remember when they laid off most of their writers a few years ago. I wonder who's left to write for the mag. Anyone here still subscribe?

I had a subscription for years...I always got it as a Christmas present from my parents. First issue I got was the Pete Rose "Sportsman Of The Year" issue (boy, did that not age well).

I think I finally let it lapse around 2004 or 2005. Did get SI For Kids for my daughters when they were younger.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:01 pm**

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 11:49 am
Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:30 pm I actually had to Google to see if they still put out a print magazine. They do, but it's monthly now. I remember when they laid off most of their writers a few years ago. I wonder who's left to write for the mag. Anyone here still subscribe?
I had a subscription for years...I always got it as a Christmas present from my parents. First issue I got was the Pete Rose "Sportsman Of The Year" issue (boy, did that not age well).

I think I finally let it lapse around 2004 or 2005. Did get SI For Kids for my daughters when they were younger.

Totally forgot, my son had an SI for Kids subscription for a couple years, he may have gotten SI for a year or two.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:03 pm**

weird/uncomfortable similarity to Ovechkin in this photo.

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 11:49 am
Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:30 pm I actually had to Google to see if they still put out a print magazine. They do, but it's monthly now. I remember when they laid off most of their writers a few years ago. I wonder who's left to write for the mag. Anyone here still subscribe?
I had a subscription for years...I always got it as a Christmas present from my parents. First issue I got was the Pete Rose "Sportsman Of The Year" issue (boy, did that not age well).

I think I finally let it lapse around 2004 or 2005. Did get SI For Kids for my daughters when they were younger.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:33 pm**

This was my first issue. I remembered being so freaked out by the Flo Hyman story.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:04 pm**

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:49 am this is actually really cool. do you have the inaugural issue (Eddie Mathews?)

y i stopped subscribing probably around ~94 or so.

honestly was happy to read about this last night as one of my friends in our high school email thread has been sending SI links for years and nobody ever clicks on them anymore because they're shit - not just the articles but if you do mistakenly open it it's a flood of ads and popups. i'd rather he link us to xhamster, seems more safe.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 5:23 pm My father has been a subscriber my entire life and still is one now. In fact, he was a charter subscriber and I have almost every issue for the first year of SI.

Yes I have the very first issue. August something , 1954. It’s not in great shape but I’ve read it’s worth some money. Not so much because it’s the first issue, but because it includes three pages of uncut baseball cards.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:06 pm**

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:04 pmYes I have the very first issue. August something , 1954. It’s not in great shape but I’ve read it’s worth some money. Not so much because it’s the first issue, but because it includes three pages of uncut ...ds.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:26 pm**

still awesome tho. what's up with the cards???

(we have to have a memorabilia thread or 2 don't we...?)

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:04 pm
MaxWebster wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:49 am this is actually really cool. do you have the inaugural issue (Eddie Mathews?)

y i stopped subscribing probably around ~94 or so.

honestly was happy to read about this last night as one of my friends in our high school email thread has been sending SI links for years and nobody ever clicks on them anymore because they're shit - not just the articles but if you do mistakenly open it it's a flood of ads and popups. i'd rather he link us to xhamster, seems more safe.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 5:23 pm My father has been a subscriber my entire life and still is one now. In fact, he was a charter subscriber and I have almost every issue for the first year of SI.

Yes I have the very first issue. August something , 1954. It’s not in great shape but I’ve read it’s worth some money. Not so much because it’s the first issue, but because it includes three pages of uncut baseball cards.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:46 pm**

brian wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:50 am I totally forgot ESPN had a print magazine. They started that at the exact wrong time. I wonder how much money that lost in all.

You think it was more or less than their phone?

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:49 pm**

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:46 pm
brian wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:50 am I totally forgot ESPN had a print magazine. They started that at the exact wrong time. I wonder how much money that lost in all.
You think it was more or less than their phone?

Shoot, SI used to give out phones all the time that looked like footballs.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:54 pm**

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 11:49 am I think I finally let it lapse around 2004 or 2005. Did get SI For Kids for my daughters when they were younger.

Trying to think when I stopped getting SI...I remember getting this issue:

So it was sometime after that one in 2004.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 3:45 pm**

I was a subscriber from the time I was 14 (1988) until we moved to CO in 2013/2014. It just became irrelevant to me with the growth of online options. I still like reading things not-on-screens but I just grew out of it...sounds like I was done at just the right time.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 4:40 pm**

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:26 pm still awesome tho. what's up with the cards???

(we have to have a memorabilia thread or 2 don't we...?)

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:04 pm
MaxWebster wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:49 am this is actually really cool. do you have the inaugural issue (Eddie Mathews?)

y i stopped subscribing probably around ~94 or so.

honestly was happy to read about this last night as one of my friends in our high school email thread has been sending SI links for years and nobody ever clicks on them anymore because they're shit - not just the articles but if you do mistakenly open it it's a flood of ads and popups. i'd rather he link us to xhamster, seems more safe.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 5:23 pm My father has been a subscriber my entire life and still is one now. In fact, he was a charter subscriber and I have almost every issue for the first year of SI.

Yes I have the very first issue. August something , 1954. It’s not in great shape but I’ve read it’s worth some money. Not so much because it’s the first issue, but because it includes three pages of uncut baseball cards.

Apparently, card collectors value the issue more than do magazine collectors.

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:39 pm**

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:49 pm**

The first swimsuit issue I received...I don't think my parents knew that was a thing.

Used to be published the the week between the Championship Games and the Super Bowl.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:02 am**

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:49 pm

Used to be published the the week between the Championship Games and the Super Bowl.

Oh, we were very aware of that date as teenagers in a pre-internet era. The younger guys may not understand how useful that issue was. Victoria’s Secret catalog was the only other material in those days.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:17 am**

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:02 am
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:49 pm

Used to be published the the week between the Championship Games and the Super Bowl.
Oh, we were very aware of that date as teenagers in a pre-internet era. The younger guys may not understand how useful that issue was. Victoria’s Secret catalog was the only other material in those days.

I, too, was very interested in the latest swimwear and lingerie styles of the day and age. Research porpoises of course.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:40 am**

There is no Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos if not for the SI Swimsuit issue.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:42 am**

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:40 am There is no Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos if not for the SI Swimsuit issue.

My #1 SI model without question. Wife thinks I'm crazy.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:47 am**

A_B wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:42 am
wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:40 am There is no Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos if not for the SI Swimsuit issue.
My #1 SI model without question. Wife thinks I'm crazy.

Jen is wrong. KI is a dream.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:48 am**

Macpherson forever

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:58 am**

rass wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:48 am Macpherson forever

This is the only correct answer.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:59 am**

This might end up with someone tired of the cynicism.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:08 am**

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:02 am
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:49 pm

Used to be published the the week between the Championship Games and the Super Bowl.
Oh, we were very aware of that date as teenagers in a pre-internet era. The younger guys may not understand how useful that issue was. Victoria’s Secret catalog was the only other material in those days.

One could get far with the Sears catalog + some imagination.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:27 am**

A_B wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:59 am This might end up with someone tired of the cynicism.

KI had a bit of a long face but this is just mean.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 10:44 am**

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:02 am Victoria’s Secret catalog was the only other material in those days.

There was no way my Mormon parents were letting a Victoria's Secret catalog in the house. SI was "safe", especially considering they bought the subscription for me.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:02 am**

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 10:44 am
The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:02 am Victoria’s Secret catalog was the only other material in those days.
There was no way my Mormon parents were letting a Victoria's Secret catalog in the house. SI was "safe", especially considering they bought the subscription for me.

They didn't preemptively get the swimsuit issue out of the mail before you got home from school?

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:08 am**

duff wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:02 am
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 10:44 am
The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:02 am Victoria’s Secret catalog was the only other material in those days.
There was no way my Mormon parents were letting a Victoria's Secret catalog in the house. SI was "safe", especially considering they bought the subscription for me.
They didn't preemptively get the swimsuit issue out of the mail before you got home from school?

At some point you could opt out of it I think.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:30 am**

duff wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:02 am
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 10:44 am
The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:02 am Victoria’s Secret catalog was the only other material in those days.
There was no way my Mormon parents were letting a Victoria's Secret catalog in the house. SI was "safe", especially considering they bought the subscription for me.
They didn't preemptively get the swimsuit issue out of the mail before you got home from school?

I don't think they knew about the swimsuit issue back in '76, when I first had a subscription. And after that, I guess they didn't think it was that bad. (and it was pretty tame back then).

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:32 am**

rass wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:48 am Macpherson forever

Yes!

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:35 am**

There were always angry, distraught, pearl-clutching letters to the editor after the swimsuit issue. Pretty funny reading.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:46 am**

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 10:44 am
The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:02 am Victoria’s Secret catalog was the only other material in those days.
There was no way my Mormon parents were letting a Victoria's Secret catalog in the house. SI was "safe", especially considering they bought the subscription for me.

Meanwhile my parents signed up for a free subscription to Playboy and had it sent to my college house address. Jokes aside, it legit was a good magazine.

Sears catalog seemed to stop arriving while I was pre-brother emailing, but I do remember sneaking peeks at the women's underwear section. My embarrassing source material in those days was Newsweek. My parents had a subscription and kept in the bathroom. I'd leaf through hoping for one advertisement with an attractive woman, or an article on someone remotely attractive. Didn't take much in those days, Angela Merkel in a skirt would have worked in a pinch.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:47 am**

sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:35 am There were always angry, distraught, pearl-clutching letters to the editor after the swimsuit issue. Pretty funny reading.

If they published a book of those letters, I'd buy it.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:50 am**

goddammit Syb.... now i have to explain to my wife why i just laughed so hard...

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:46 am Didn't take much in those days, Angela Merkel in a skirt would have worked in a pinch.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:53 am**

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:50 am goddammit Syb.... now i have to explain to my wife why i just laughed so hard...

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:46 am Didn't take much in those days, Angela Merkel in a skirt would have worked in a pinch.

Just another example of Jewish ingenuity in the face of harsh German conditions.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:39 pm**

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:46 am Didn't take much in those days, Angela Merkel in a skirt would have worked in a pinch.

The Eaton's (like Sears) Catalogue always had a few nice bra shots

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:42 pm**

rass wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:53 am
MaxWebster wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:50 am goddammit Syb.... now i have to explain to my wife why i just laughed so hard...

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:46 am Didn't take much in those days, Angela Merkel in a skirt would have worked in a pinch.

Just another example of Jewish ingenuity in the face of harsh German conditions.

I’ve always thought the highest compliment to a joke writer is laughing at a joke about the Holocaust. Congrats, Rass.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:43 pm**

rass wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:48 am Macpherson forever

Kathy, Elle, and Paulina were the Big Three for me. When I was in high school, and even my freshman year of college, I decorated my dorm room with cutouts from the swimsuit editions. I can still picture Kathy lying on those yellow flowers.

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