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LBeing
Jan 19, 2024
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2024/01/19/sports-illustrated-layoffs-staff/72283560007/

Pressing F To Represent

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Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things


Oh no :ohdear:
Anyway.

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
:boomshaka:

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

Classic Inside the NBA is the best sports-related media, just hours of Shaq and Charles Barkley calling each other fat and stupid and never coming to a resolution about which one is the fattest and stupidest of them all

the time Kenny knocked Shaq down into a christmas tree and he fell in slow motion still makes me lol

Internetjack
Sep 15, 2007

oh god how did this get here i am not good with computers
Top Cop
They'll still do the swimsuit issue though, right?

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

I just got a subscription. What happens next?

Thanks I'll hang up and listen.

flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005


where tf am i going to get my sports illustrations now???

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


My football phone will be worth a fortune!

ChickenHeart
Nov 28, 2007

Take me at your own risk.

Kiss From a Hog

Technically they're not dead, but assuming the marketing license they lost prevents them from actually covering anything they might as well be.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

I'm not joking, I just got my first issue like a week ago.

I. M. Gei
Jun 26, 2005

CHIEFS

BITCH



Not surprised. I haven't seen SI publish hardly anything in forever and was just wondering when this was gonna happen.

Smugworth
Apr 18, 2003

One time I found a soda bottle cap that said I'd won a free sports illustrated subscription but I never turned it in

Welp that's my sports illustrated story

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

I saved the issue when Tiger won the Masters back in 2018. It's in one of the guest bedrooms right now.

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things


Smugworth posted:

One time I found a bottle cap that said I'd won a free sports illustrated subscription but I never turned it in

Welp that's my sports illustrated story

Tangentially related this reminds me of going into the store and going down the soda aisle looking under the cap for a "winner" back when you could get a free soda if you brought the cap in. I'd just open it and get 2 sodas.

DamnCanadian
Jan 3, 2005

Perpetuating the stereotype since 1978.

I. M. Gei posted:

Not surprised. I haven't seen SI publish hardly anything in forever and was just wondering when this was gonna happen.

Yeah seriously. They’re a hollow shell of their heyday in the 80s/90s

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
Why would I read a magazine about sports when I can watch ESPN 24/7 I like when they show the top plays but I also like the top bad plays too they are good for a laugh but sometimes I feel bad for the player who goofed up

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000
Probation
Can't post for 9 hours!
Ultra Carp

Internetjack posted:

They'll still do the swimsuit issue though, right?

No, they went woke and are broke

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

Vim Fuego posted:

No, they went woke and are broke
they should have just done the equal opportunity thing and had one greased up twink for every bikini babe

bucksmash
Mar 11, 2002

Hey Playboy executives here's your window to start publishing physical magazines again, get yourself some sports reporters and fill this vacancy, then guys everywhere can claim they really are reading the articles

Gotta admit I haven't seen a SI mag anywhere in years, so I thought they had actually gone all digital, no idea they were tanking this badly

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things


numberoneposter posted:

they should have just done the equal opportunity thing and had one greased up twink for every bikini babe

:mmmhmm:

Nyan Bread
Mar 17, 2006

Driftingmoose

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things


Nyan Bread posted:

Driftingmoose

The reregs will play while the mods are away.

SLICK GOKU BABY
Jun 12, 2001

Hey Hey Let's Go! 喧嘩する
大切な物を protect my balls


Now it will just be swimsuit issues every week.

Wifi Toilet
Oct 1, 2004

Toilet Rascal
Oh, no, where I get my AI generated content now? Oh yeah, the rest of the Internet!

e: thanks for Elle Macpherson tho'

Wifi Toilet fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jan 20, 2024

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT
Should've been Sports Illustrious, they'd still be in business. :dumbrim:

ChairmanMauzer
Dec 30, 2004

It wears a human face.
Good.

titty_baby_
Nov 11, 2015

Another bastion of American culture laid to waste by nefarious millennials.

Hotel Kpro
Feb 24, 2011

owls don't go to school
Dinosaur Gum
I think I started subscribing to them in 6th grade. We had a magazine drive at school and if you got like 10 or something subscriptions you’d get a box of 48 caramel apple pops. Not like real ones, it was just apple flavored candy with caramel. Another year it was orange cream, and the last year it was a 5 pound bag of gummy worms.

Anyway I think I stayed subscribed for twelve years or so, Rick Reilly and Steve Rushin always had great articles to read. Plus every year I’d get either a fleece throw blanket or a hoodie.

I can’t say I’m sad to see them go because I haven’t paid any attention to them in like a decade but maybe kid me would be sad

Whooping Crabs
Apr 13, 2010

Sorry for the derail but I fuckin love me some racoons
Come subscribe to my new magazine, "Jorts Illustrated"

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things


Morts Illustrated :dadjoke:

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.

Grey Cat posted:

Morts Illustrated :dadjoke:

Jorts illustrated :goku:

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!

redshirt posted:

I just got a subscription. What happens next?

Thanks I'll hang up and listen.

How do you like your football phone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzsGLe9YuwE

neato burrito
Aug 25, 2002

bitch better have my chex mix

Sprouts Chill Debated

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things


EorayMel posted:

Jorts illustrated :goku:

I think you mean

20 Blunts
Jan 21, 2017
Jortsrenter

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

So sad to hear that sports are over

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Bonzo posted:

How do you like your football phone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzsGLe9YuwE

Pretty cool. Push button dialing AND a mute button.

011924
Jan 20, 2024

quote:

"We can't make Sports immediately interesting"

- Sports Illustrated, January 2024

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

They're closing down because AI chased off all the illustrators :'(

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satanic splash-back
Jan 28, 2009

driftingmouse making an MO change?

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