Did anyone get the new SI swimsuit edition?
 

Who's that hottie on the cover Wow.

1985 BEAUTIFUL SLIM WHITE WOMAN

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1990 BEAUTIFUL SLIM WHITE WOMAN

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1995 BEAUTIFUL SLIM WHITE WOMAN

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2000 BEAUTIFUL SLIM WHITE WOMAN

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2005 BEAUTIFUL SLIM WHITE WOMAN

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2010 BEAUTIFUL SLIM WHITE WOMAN

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2015 BEAUTIFUL SLIM WHITE WOMAN

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2016 FAT ACCEPTANCE

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2018 BLM

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2021 TRANS RIGHTS

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2022??????

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Troy Polamalu is rocking that one piece though

2030??????????????

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Magazines are dying… This one is almost dead..

The swimsuit edition is such an oddity. It would be like Readers Digest or The Economist devoting one issue a year to women in bikinis. It has nothing to do with the magazine's core topic at all.

It also looks like they were on the precipice of outright porn in the 2015 cover before they walked it back.

I'm not complaining at all, and I understand that scantily clad women sell magazines (or at least they did before the internet), but it's just odd.

So Naomi Osaka is over her "social anxiety" that forced her to quit at Wimbledon?

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This stopped being relevant when I could find 50 hotter pics on my instagram five years ago.

Why the **** would you put anything but society's highest standard of beauty on the cover of your magazine for this?

What did you think the largest demographic subscribing to your magazine WAS?

Hint: they don't want to look at Mr. Bloom.

WHAT IN THE ****

I came in here to make a joke that sooner or later they will put a trans on the cover.....in no way expecting that to actually be the case.

So a table, OK...

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How brave lmao

No one wants to see a transgender person on the cover or any pages of the swimsuit edition.

You don't seem to understand even the basics what social anxiety is. Start with the word social.

That trans is still out of Billay’s league.

Not if he tucks.

You don't seem to understand even the basics of what a fraud is... which is Naomi Osaka.

She claimed to have "social anxiety" and couldn't participate in the required media obligations at the French Open... which is why she quit mid-tournament. And then she refused to even participate in Wimbledon over this same "social anxiety" with regards to media obligations.

Yet apparently this same media "social anxiety" didn't impact her ability to pose for the SI Swimsuit Issue and the cover of TIME Magazine during the same time-frame.

Not swimsuit but Playmate of the Year Patty McGuire St Lou Mo girl. One of my Favorite bunnies.
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I have or had social anxiety at least when I was a teen. I couldn't imagine a more terrifying experience than posing in front of a bunch of people I don't know.

These photos were taken earlier this year and I'd imagine there were only a handful people present, not 14,000, while being broadcast to millions and millions.

Furthermore, the only person who's been "hurt" by her withdrawing from Wimbledon and other tournaments is her bank account.

Pepperidge Farm remembers

Billay was really hoping for Orlando Bloom on the cover, but Leyna Bloom is an okay Plan B.

I dont know who Orlando Bloom is RIP old person I've never heard of before

My bad I thought you were into elves and shit like that

Orlando Bloom ****ing died?

Yes. The day after tomorrow.

****.

He can only come back every 10 years.

Rescuing Hobbits being taken to Isengard is dangerous business.

Did you bet on her or something? What a weird thing to be mad about. And I know nothing of her story but social anxiety doesn’t simply mean you can’t do anything with or around others. There are plenty of reasons why she might feel the need to withdraw from the tournament while also being able to take photos.

Jimmy Connors really liked her too.

Elle MacPherson and Brooke Burke will always be my favorites.

ooh la la

Yep and still married too.

Also about to turn 70.

Wimbledon and the French Open were certainly “hurt” by not having arguably the most marketable player… men’s or women’s play in their respective tournaments.

The TV broadcasters and their advertisers were “hurt” by her quitting.

The shareholders and anyone with a business interest in her endorsement companies were “hurt” by her not playing in two of the most high profile tournaments in the sport.

This is completely false.

Those broadcast deals were made years in advance of her even hitting the scene.

Players bow out to injury all of the time and the ratings don't take a nosedive because of it.

The TV ratings would not have been higher if Osaka was in the final rounds of either tournament? Seriously?

People that watch tennis watch tennis, regardless of who's in the finals.

Do you watch the Chiefs if Tyreek Hill is injured? What if Patrick Mahomes is injured? Do you still watch the games?

Of course you do, just like tennis lovers watch Wimbledon and all of the majors.

Osaka has social anxiety, so it was the right move for her personally to sit out until she's well because she certainly doesn't want to end up like Jennifer Capriati.

Remember her?

Wimbledon draws miniscule ratings, anyway. They used to average about 2 million last decade but they've been up and down in the past decade, although they're not too far off from their numbers from the 2000's.

These are US numbers only.

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Wimbledon ratings down from 2019, up from 2018.

Last Sunday’s Novak Djokovic-Matteo Berrettini Wimbledon men’s final averaged 1.76 million viewers on ESPN, down 54% from the previous men’s final in 2019, Djokovic’s five-set marathon win over Roger Federer (3.83M), but up 8% from Djokovic-Kevin Anderson in 2018 (1.64M).

The full telecast window averaged 1.5 million, down 57% from 2019 but up 37% from 2018.

The previous day’s Ashleigh Barty-Karolína Plíšková women’s final averaged just 1.09 million — down 55% from Simona Halep-Serena Williams in 2019 (2.44M) and the smallest audience for any Wimbledon singles final since ESPN began airing the event exclusively in 2011. The previous low was 1.33 million for Petra Kvitova-Eugenie Bouchard in 2014.

The full telecast averaged 729,000 (-40%).

Back in high school, mid 90s. No internet. But our high school library got regular magazine subscriptions. So, I would read the Sports Illustrated during study hall, taking turns with tons of other guys. We had a stereotypical librarian woman in her late 40s, the type of woman who probably hadn't seen a penis in her life. When the yearly swimsuit edition came out, she would cut out all the bikini pics, but leave the stories. LOL. **** you, Linda.....

I’m waiting for the on/off ranking list.

Can you get all of the covers? We should have a tournament to pick the best swimsuit edition cover.

Back in the 80s it was a shameless way to sell Sports Illustrated subscriptions. Men generally had an interest in the magazine to begin with. There was no internet, though, so if they wanted a bunch of sexy girlie pics they had to buy them in a setting where that was explicitly the only reason they were making the purchase.

Enter Sports Illustrated. You're buying the great sports journalism. You can't help it they also throw in one issue full of gorgeous women posing in bikinis. You are completely innocent of being a perv, and your wife/girlfriend/mom cannot complain or judge you because liking sports is totally acceptable and getting the swimsuit issue is just a byproduct of that completely innocent fact.

It used to be a magazine geared towards men. Men liked boobs. They showed boobs. They sold lots of magazines.

Apparently these days they're geared towards a different market. One that doesn't seem to buy their magazines anyway. :shrug:

Kathy Ireland

I might have to go Tyra Banks on this one.

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Orlando Brigadoon?

Megan the Stallion is the best of the 2 that count. And by a mile!

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I don't get it. That dude isn't even hot...not a sexy body and not pretty. At least put a hot dude on the cover. That dude is dumpy, flat, and non shapely. At least Ashley Graham was pretty shaped sexily (albeit a bit too thick for my tastes).

Good

Something woke, something something broke

You have to admit it's funny SI put a chick who looks like a dude, and a dude who looks like a chick on the cover of their magazine.

Maybe they should rebrand as a MAD-style magazine.

And again you miss the point... Osaka brings in the casual fan/viewer... the non-hardcore tennis fan who probably isn't going to watch an Ashleigh Barty-Karolina Pliskova Wimbledon final.

Similar to when Tiger Woods was in contention to win golf tournaments on Sunday's. Casual viewers are drawn in and the viewership goes up.

Not that hard to understand.

The Wimbledon women's final was down 55% when there was a lack of star power involved... which again proves the impact of no Osaka on TV ratings.

The TV ratings would have still likely been down in 2021 vs. 2019 because Osaka is not Serena in terms of star power, but they wouldn't have been 55% down.

I just assumed they were both dudes.

Their Q2 net sales were $1B. That's an increase of 77.7% from $626M for Q2 last year. They have been closing stores for quite some time.

You don't have to be woke to be awake, Gentlemen.

Uh, COVID, dummy.

What about it? And where's the $275M loss and store closures rooted in being "woke"?

Karma for being douchebags

They aren't douchebags. Just guys with an agenda.

But if you are referencing VS, outperforming previous periods through times of immense change and movement away from brick and mortor is the karma I'd like to have.

Sorry, I read it as $275M loss instead of you questioning that.

I guess their douche karma didn't come yet. But they built up massive amounts of positive karma over the years by showing hot, scantily clad women in lacy things.

I've changed, but not that much...

Everybody give Dave a rousing round of boos for only giving a fraction of the story. Victoria's Secret is part of L Brands that also houses Bath and BodyWorks which drug Victoria's Secret out of the mud with their strong showing. AND, L Brands plans on separating the two entities in the near future.

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Point stands - get woke go broke. Eat that shit sammich you ordered, Dave.

Literally every retail ****ing tanked so of course they have massive "gains" now year over year.

They are losing money because their business model of catering to less attractive groups is ****ing shit.

You guys just aren't real men.

If a real man starts taking off his gf's clothes and finds a hard schlong, he gets on his hands and knees and gets right to work.

The rest of you are just transphobes.

Remember - it's not a chick with a dick, it's a dude with tits.

Holy shit! Johnny V sighting! And he likes to suck cock! Did. Not. Know. That!

Exactly. My fav is hitting it from the back with their toolie smacking your thigh