Reelin' In The Years

A few years back, I found a store in Portland that had thousands of back issues of thousands of magazines, and I picked up a couple cool issues of Sports Illustrated.

But this is a dream come true. Guess anybody that saved all their SI issues is feeling pretty stupid right now. You can even flip through an issue page by page.

You can revisit the days when SI had great writers who wrote in-depth pieces, and also had a staff large enough and capable enough to cover sports beyond the big three-and-a-half.

Personally, I look forward to reading all 288 Frank Deford pieces. That dude was, and is, the man. You can hear him on NPR and he also does stuff for Bryant Gumbel's HBO Real Sports.

Don't know how long the SI vault has been around, but discovering it today felt like Christmas sneaking up on me.

Oh, and the REALLY dope thing about the page by page feature?

Stuff like this and this. Looking at old-school print ads is darn entertaining as well.

Hey! What are you doing in there? You'll go blind!