The weirdest Sports Illustrated Cover had to be the infamous "George Brett's Hemorrhoid Speaks Out: My Life in the Dark" Cover.

That Foster cover makes me miss the simple joys of the 70's...

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I'm looking forward to next year's Julia Allison swimsuit cover.

She looks like she's twisting a really long invisible moustache.

An entire generation sponsored by Gillette, whose products none of them used.

@Lonesome_George: I think she's rolling a booger between her fingers.

That photo of Leon Spinks is pure, uncut nightmare fuel.

Why is she wearing a hard hat?

@Clare: The real nightmare was Howard Cosell's quoting Bob Dylan while doing the play-by-play on one of the Spinks fights.

No Boog Powell?

@flynnchick: On second thought, I think she's ashing an invisible cigar.

Danny Glover played for the Twins??

I liked the cover in '68 of Dean Smith smoking weed at a Stones concert.

That woman isn't poking Al Unser, she's hexing him with a face-shrinking spell.

feathered hair
flosses with boat rope
peckerwood
5-10 for assualt with intent to mame
pants'd!
maybe, after 4 or 5 beers

Ah, the crazy days before we started photoshopping off nipples and such.

I liked the one cover that had Stallone in Rocky garb and Gerry Cooney with brown hair fulfilling the great white hope fantasy with movie character and a palooka.

@drugman: for a guy supposedly getting laid all the time and wearing THAT suit, Wilt sure didn't have much of a sense of humor. No Nipsey, he!

@Clare: This Leon always gave me the creeps...

/annoying bird!

Ah, the crazy days when sideburns ran long and free like water in an unspoiled creek, comin' to ya straight from Maine.

See, it looks to me like Nancy is saying "The name of the game is a nice, fat, joint".

Clint Hurdle avoided a few to get to the 2007 World Series. His Rockies got crizzushed by the Red Sox. Fucking Red sox.

I first subscribed to SI in 1978. I never did get my free NFL team fleece jacket. Though I recall that Clint Hurdle started mowing our yard in 1982.

Big bats indeed.

@Clare: you so racist, just like Barack's memaw!

@4_Chan!!!!!11!one: I particularly like George's big black bat

Wha? Deadspin out of commission today?

It's like one big Lite beer commercial, without Hacksaw Reynolds.

George Foster looks ready to smack a bitch. that face means it's business time. all the time.

@Lonesome_George: By 1986, Nancy's moustache actually was long enough to do that.

People do like their sports. I don't want to get grease or gook on my hands from tinkering with the Gawker whirly gears and stuff but how did you get approaching 8,000 veiws for this story? I am guessing it was all in the headline.

this is a good feature do more SI

If you think that cover is bad, you shoulda seen the spread inside with the picture of Gene Banks' balls hanging out the bottom of those shorty shorts.

That Duke cover sure is weird. Who knew they had black players on that team?!

Sport's Illustrated, celebrating fat faces and bad lighting!

@Civil Negligence: Wayne Brady black

@In Other News...: Uh. I'm not saying I'm a Red Sox fan, but if I were, would that get me thrown off the list? Or could you just stone me instead? That would be okay.

Also: Without revealing my DOB, I must say that short shorts formed my opinion of what a man should look like. I was happily raised on Jimmy Connor, John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg in short shorts. Then I turn around and whump, all you can see is hairy ankles. The world is such a lonely place for a woman who loves her some legs. Could somebody tell the NBA and the NCAA to put a HEM in it for the love of God? Or if that is too tall an order, could those of you who are male and reading this just start wearing shorter shorts in your day-to-day? And some smaller swim trunks please? Pretty please? Create some peer pressure?

Is Clint Hurdle in the Hall of Fame yet?

@flynnchick:
No honey bunny, that's a pube that was stuck in her teeth from that morning's munch session, yum yum.