SI - Smith on Tillman

Gary Smith did a longer piece - I believe he's done some shorter ones (or one) - on Pat Tillman for this week's issue of SI. I hope the mailman doesn't steal mine again this week (I never got last week's and had to buy it).

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/09/05/tillman0911/index.html

 

That was awesome. I hope the phone didn't ring in the past half hour, because I might not've heard it.

 

How does it compare to the first Tillman piece?

 

This one's actual non-fiction.

 

Well put, jersey guy.

 

wow. just wow.

a three-tissues story. :'( :'( :'(

wow. just wow.

 

Same here. I wonder if mailmen have a fetish for Joey Porter not wearing a shirt? :-X

 

That's some powerful shit.

 

Did anybody else find it interesting that they listed Smith's sources for this story? I don't think SI has ever done that ... but I could be wrong. Anyway, I'm glad they included it because it gives me a better idea of how much background work Smith does.

 

I read the first page and just wasn't inclined to go any farther. It didn't reach out to me. I'm probably in the minority on this one.

 

This one seemed to require a little more concentration.

The constant back and forth between past and present (or past and more recent past), while necessary, gets a little jarring after awhile.

Plus, since a good deal of the story had already been told, I kept waiting for some "Aha, so this is why it was written!" moment. And I never really found it.

 

Plus, since a good deal of the story had already been told, I kept waiting for some "Aha, so this is why it was written!" moment. And I never really found it.
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Read the last graf of the story and you'll find it.