Favorite Sports Illustrated cover

Anyone else finding the steadily increasing price from 1977 to 1986 interesting?

 

These two go together:





Side note: If you ever wondered why they called it the "sky hook," see above.

 

This is the team that made me a college basketball fan. And this shot more than any sums up David Thompson at N.C. State. Still the greatest college player ever, IMHO.

 

We are now awash in highlights - few of which have the lasting punch of a great SI cover from those days. It had such power and ability to set the discussion when it arrived each week in the mailbox. In many ways, it's a great time to be a fan because of the availability of stories, stats and video. On the other hand, it's all the same and so little stands out.

 

How 'bout a little football?

 

SI has had tons of great boxing covers, this one has always been my fave.



One of the first ones I remember as a subscriber:

 

Maybe it especially resonated because I was only 9, but the only one I could not take my, uh, eyes off of (non-swimsuit division) . . .

 

Jeez, been a subscriber (yeah still getting it) since 1975, can't decide.

 

I remember that one -- a very powerful cover.