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Mike Francesa on ESPN the Magazine's Body Issue

WFAN Daily

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Sports

3.8794 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Mike riffs on the idea of athletes posing naked in a magazine.

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0:00.0

You know, this idea every year, does anybody care about this issue where they have these naked athletes?

0:08.4

I mean, you know, does anybody care about seeing Brooks Keppka and they could swing the golf club?

0:12.8

I mean, I mean, is this supposed to be titillating?

0:16.1

I mean, what is the idea?

0:18.4

You know, they try to make it like it's art. Well, this is an expression,

0:26.2

this is an expression of the human form. This is a celebration of bodies to their max. No, it's not.

0:36.8

It is the same mentality that tried to sell Sports

0:43.2

Illustrated with the swimsuit issue until they basically were running pictures that, you know,

0:48.5

when I was a kid, they were in Playboy. It's the same thing. It is trying to sell magazines and putting athletes in there that they hope people want to see naked.

1:00.2

That's what it is.

1:01.6

It's not any expression of the human form.

1:04.2

It's not because if you were going to do that, you wouldn't do it with famous people.

1:08.9

This is about trying to sell magazines and hoping that someone is going to be excited about

1:17.0

seeing the person who's a star in their sport without their clothes on.

1:22.6

To me, I mean, I've never even opened one of those issues, so I couldn't even tell you.

1:30.4

I just happened to see the thing today where Brooks Kepka was on the cover swinging the golf club naked.

1:34.4

That was it.

1:35.9

So I hope Brooks got a kick out of it, but, you know, hey, that's about it.

1:41.1

But, I mean, who cares?

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