Elvis Grbac: Not as sexy as initially indicated
 

This is absolutely hilarious. Photo is as queer as it gets without nudity.

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Elvis Grbac: Not as sexy as initially indicated

June 24th, 2009 by Jeff Pearlman
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One of my favorite all-time stories is about Elvis Grbac (left), Rich Gannon (right) and People Magazine’s Sexiest Men issue from 1998. It is both outlandish and 100-percent true.

Back in the day I knew many People staffers, and they were all cool, fun, intelligent—and woefully ignorant about sports. Every year, in planning the Sexiest Men issue, People’s editors would ask a bunch of us at Sports Illustrated for suggestions and insight. In 1998, for a reason I’ll never understand, they decided not to seek out help.

The magazine chose Rich Gannon as its Sexiest Athlete. At the time, Gannon was a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. Still a couple of seasons removed from his golden tenure with the Raiders, Gannon was 33, handsome and likable. In other words, a solid choice. Yet People, being People, simply informed the photographer assigned to the piece that the Sexiest Athlete was the Chiefs’ quarterback. Hence, he took pictures of the Chiefs’ quarterback. Well, one of the Chiefs’ quarterbacks: Elvis Grbac.
Yup.

The pictures made their way back to the New York offices, and editors were dumbfounded. This was their Sexiest Athlete? Yet upon learning the truth, no one with the magazine had the heart (guts?) to tell Grbac that an unfathomable mistake had been made. As a result, Elvis Grbac reigns as People’s 1998 Sexiest Athlete.

The article’s final line says it all: “His personality makes him sexy.”

Amen.


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GAY ALERT GAY ALERT

I WILL FOLLOW

This thread is gay.

I used to own two Elvis Grbac jerseys.

NTTAWWT

FYP

I'm intimidated by the gayness of this thread.

And Red Ass was born.

Is Gannon wearing a partial rug?

shocker...

Careful...

He may take you up on that.

This is the funniest line in that whole thing:

"But if you need a missle aimed with laser like precision" ROFL

ahahahah

I remember that, my wife is a big People mag subscriber. When that issue came out, she showed it to me, and I remember thinking...w...t...f?? She was laughing at it and saying she could name off the top of her head 10 NFL guys alone who she considered sexy. Hearing the behind the scenes story on this is absolutely hilarious.

...should have known. Imagine the ego on Grbac being stroked by a People mag spread calling him the sexiest athlete...that's just hilarious.

oh yeah, we get to put another of clayton's BS threads over 100, make the tard feel validated people, make his world make sense.

Jesus Christ you ****ing dumbass. This is hilarious, Chiefs-related, news.

SHUT THE **** UP.

LMAO That is hilarious. Elvis just might have been the unsexiest quarterback in NFL history.. what a cruel joke.

If you don't listen to people telling you to shut the **** up, then why on earth (the area outside your mom's basement) would I listen to you?

Which Shawnee Mission High School is that football helmet from???

I'm smarter than you?

Riiiiiight, that's it.....

Thats pretty hilarious.

ROFL

That's too funny. Wonder if he ever found out...

That's like voting for the class reerun as prom king.

funny stuff

Well it is the same design as the sm west's team but west's colors are yellow and black. I just graduated from sm northwest.

Not sure which is funnier, Elvis being called sexy, or Elvis being called an athlete. :spock:

I couldn't find a pic of him crying.

So heres one of T.O.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SxJyqeK6uJ...320/crying.jpg

Shoulda sent a PM...

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haha looks like kanye west in that pic (without fish dicks of course)

The ****'s with that helmet? Did Grbac play for the Bizzaro Vikings?

Elvis is DEAD-so I heard

Ow. That would be humiliating.

The Athletic has a new piece on this story...
https://theathletic.com/1554275/2020.../?redirected=1

Hey I still agree with my 2009 self!

Nobody could throw a perfect spiral into the ground like Grbac.

He was so Godawful after breaking his collarbone in 1997.

**** you, Carl. **** you in the stupid ****ing ass.

WTF???? This was a thread?????

I know I missed some good times before i joined but This?? OMG

That 49er reject **** killed another of our Super Bowl dreams.

After Mahomes throws for his 6th touchdown of the game, they will flash a graphic listing every last cock-sucking 49er QB the Chiefs fished out of the trash over the last 30 years.

Can’t read it, not starting a free trial to read it either. What’s the new info that’s being shared about this boring story

**** me his feet are begging to be rubbed

Those are Hobbit feet. JFC!

The writer, Jayson Jenks, was able to get Jeff Pearlman's source for the original story, a Jennifer Wulff, to provide a little bit more detail about how the screw-up happened,

Frankly, I never saw how Gannon could have been the winner, either. I think they must've been talking about a cornerback or Len Dawson or something.

I saw him recently & he still looks like crap.

Marty really screwed up starting EG over RG.

Too fat.

They were the best of times, they were the worst of times.... :D

Didn’t he have a 5000 yard season around 2000? Deserves a little credit for that.

I loved Marty, but not starting Gannon was the worst thing ever. Gotta go with the hot hand, my man!!

I used to bench Grbac for Gannon every time I played Madden and I'm pretty sure even Madden knew Gannon was better.

No.

Yes he got credit when the Super Bowl Champion Baltimore Ravens dumped Their QB Trent Dilfer for Elvis Grbac giving him a $11 MILLION signing bonus! EG lasted only one season when the RAVENS realized that Trent Dilfer was actually better than EG. They asked EG to take a salary cut but he refused so they released him and then he retired. The Ravens screwed up just like the CHIEFS thinking EG was the answer. Both were WRONG, including the 49er's. Rich Gannon was so much better and everyone knew it.

Funny

Is this the guy who gifted the Raiders Gannon?

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you bet

That was such a weird season. Derrick Alexander balled so goddamn hard

if it weren't for the golden age of the Chiefs, which is right now, I'd probably still be saying "Marty shoulda kept that mother****ing Grbac on the bench!" and be a little bitter. They probably would have won the Superbowl if they kept Gannon in, he had the offense rolling pretty good. At least a lot better than what Grbac was doing, but nooooo...I remember watching Marty say something like "I'm not going to let a guy lose his job because he got injured" because Gannon's play made it a legit controversy. But the real reason Grbac was put back in was because he was the guy that was getting paid and if the GM is paying him, he needs to be playing. Which is loser mentality.

urban legend

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unless marty had convinced tim brown, jerry rice and charlie garner to play for the chiefs it wasn't happening

I am going based on memory and I remember it being a controversy and Gannon had the offense looking a lot better, that doesn't mean it was great.

I think most of the Gannon love is purely based on that SF game.

He was very good that day.

It's true he was a lot less chokey than Grbac, but in the end I don't believe he was good enough to beat Denver or Pittsburgh and certainly not Dallas.

there was definitely a different vibe with Gannon that year, even if they weren't putting up stats

A lot of it is that we were grinding out wins with Gannon and Grbac was poached ballsack in the playoffs.

Gannon had the Chiefs in the win column. Marty inserted Elvis and lost. Gannon went to the Raiders and that was that. AL got his cast off QB.

I think we get to the SB but fall to GB

It definitely looked and felt different with Gannon.

Purdy reminds me of an early Gannon.

Just enough arm, just enough mobility, and never shits his pants in big moments...

That was all KCGannonStalker generated.

I finally took her and everyone else off ignore like 7 or 8 years ago.

Somewhere in the teens she became the least annoying person I might have to deal with in the course of a day...

Elvis is still alive!