I would walk through fire for the women of DU, my wife, my daughter, my mother, every woman I know.

[theboss]

4. While your martyrdom is probably appreciated, I think it is unnecessary

I think the swimsuit issue is a remaining vestige of when sports was a boys club and SI mattered. Both of those things are on their way out.

When I was in junior high, I would race home on Thursdays (I believe) to get my copy of SI out of the mailbox. It was the only way to get any kind of national perspective and national coverage on sports - aside from some small game stories on Page 3 of the local paper. The swimsuit issue - in those pre-Internet days - was incredibly important. I still remember taking the Kathy Ireland in the yellow bikini issue to school the next day, because why wouldn't I?

The swimsuit issue seems so silly now. There are dozens upon dozens of websites to get a pictures of models in bikinis (and much less) on a daily basis. Since I wasn't getting Vogue, I had limited opportunities to see Paulina Porizkova nearly naked in 1987. The SI swimsuit issue met that need for me. (And it was a need).

Anyway, I haven't bought a copy of SI in close to a decade. Why on earth do I need week old stories in 2014?

Question: how many dudes in the 70s and 80s kept all their copies of SI (and Sport and Inside Sport) in some kind of storage locker? I had 15 years worth of them by the time I was done law school and my parents decided that I should no longer use their home as a storage unit.