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Can you name the sports figures on these 1980's Sports Illustrated covers?
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Sports Illustrated Covers (1980s) Quiz
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zalkon2004
Created Jun 13, 2012 in
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Featured Jul 15, 2012
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needapausebutton
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Jun 14th, 2012 at 05:22 GMT
-4 points
@zalkon2004: You do realize, of course, that some of these are not exactly the pictures the players were expecting when they first clicked this game, right? I mean, professional boxers in swim trunks is not exactly the kind of swimwear Sports Illustrated is known for... ;)
zalkon2004
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Jun 14th, 2012 at 05:32 GMT
6 points
@napb True, but during the photoshoot Larry Bird took one look at the Speedo and walked off so they just let him wear his warm-ups. Keith Hernandez on the other hand had to be talked into wearing his uniform.
slowthinker
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Jun 14th, 2012 at 09:04 GMT
6 points
Best quiz ever. My mom bought me an SI subscription in the 1980s. Remember many of the covers.
emsee
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Jun 14th, 2012 at 13:50 GMT
0 points
A great quiz...I might suggest shaving the time just a bit, however it is a great game either way. Loved it!
biskit67
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Jun 14th, 2012 at 14:01 GMT
2 points
Only missed Flo Jo because I only entered Joyner. Bummer.
Aaron_Kashtan
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Jun 14th, 2012 at 15:34 GMT
5 points
Please accept more alternative answers for "USA Hockey".
zalkon2004
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Jun 14th, 2012 at 17:42 GMT
9 points
@Aaron Kashtan - When I created the quiz these were all made acceptable answers, keep in mind Sporcle only allows so many alternates -
USA Hockey/US Hockey/Team USA/Team USA Hockey/1980 USA Olympic Hockey/1980 Hockey Team/1980 Team USA/USA Ice Hockey/United States Hockey/United States Olympic Hockey/1980 United States Olympic Hockey/Olympic Hockey Team/1980 USA Hockey
If you have any better suggestions to replace a current term I'm willing to listen. I don't really want to remove it cause it's a big part of early 80's sports but I have replacements.
MMayes
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Jun 14th, 2012 at 17:42 GMT
9 points
I couldn't get the tennis player in the lower right corner. Borg? No. Edberg? No. Becker? No. Dang, who is that guy.....
trivial
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Jun 14th, 2012 at 18:59 GMT
1 point
Agreed. I tried Connors several times before giving up!
burnsy
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Jun 14th, 2012 at 20:07 GMT
6 points
First thing I tried was Miracle on Ice....maybe put that in place of one of the longer answers.
zalkon2004
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Jun 14th, 2012 at 20:15 GMT
2 points
@burnsy - great suggestion. I added it.
mexal
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Jun 18th, 2012 at 05:27 GMT
2 points
as hard as i try i can never spell nicklaus
Booger
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Jun 18th, 2012 at 20:52 GMT
2 points
Of course he was on the cover of SI. He's Keith Hernandez!
zalkon2004
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Jun 19th, 2012 at 04:05 GMT
1 point
The quiz for the 1990's has just been posted for those interested, thanks for playing - http://www.sporcle.com/games/zalkon2004/sports-illustrated-covers-of-the-90s
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bwood1957
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Jun 22nd, 2012 at 20:53 GMT
-11 points
Can't you take Mrs. Andre Agassi for the tennis player in the bottom right???
Game published: Jul 15th, 2012 at 17:03 GMT
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stormypetrol
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 17:13 GMT
-57 points
Can we have Radio Times covers of the 60's please. These 25 with one exception are North Americans or play a big four sport. Not very global - my European blood is boiling
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DashDixon
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 17:31 GMT
-5 points
Make your own quiz, Eurotrash. ;) How hot is "boiling" for European blood, btw? A scorching 24, 25 degrees Celsius?
tffl0384
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 18:49 GMT
4 points
Steffi Graf? Looks like Jimmy Connors to me.
CraigBerger
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 20:16 GMT
9 points
@stormypetrol No one wants to do a quiz where they have to identify 25 soccer players...
Beatlezfann
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 20:41 GMT
7 points
@stormypetrol: I hope you're aware that your comment is about to be voted down into submission.
hodgetiger
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 20:50 GMT
18 points
@stormypetrol: I only got 13 right cos I didn't recognise the faces, but when time was up I recognised 7 more names. I am a British soccer fan, but I like taking quizzes like this BECAUSE I LEARN THINGS!!
mrgenova
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 21:04 GMT
16 points
I am so angry that this quiz about the covers of a US magazine does not have enough European athletes on it. Can you please alter this quiz so that it covers a completely different genre of material?
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tndawg
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 22:37 GMT
-8 points
This Georgia Bulldawg would love to know why Bo Jackson is so much higher than Herschel Walker?
shampoowoody
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 23:02 GMT
0 points
no mark gastineau? i am shocked!!! LOL
shampoowoody
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 23:12 GMT
2 points
some of these names and faces bring back such fond memories. how young they all look! remember hanging out with friends in a club on the upper east side of manhattan one night in the latter part of 1986, and in walks gary carter, keith hernandez and lenny dykstra. they bought me and my friends drinks, and we had a fantastic time talking about everything BUT baseball. this quiz just brought back that night. gary was a complete gentleman. dykstra was a player. keith was quiet and more of an observer. then i got married and had kids
caknuck
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 23:43 GMT
-1 points
33/35 -- Just missed Bobby Knight (not used to seeing him without white hair) and Steffi Graf (thought it was a dude). tndawg - Not a lot of people recognized the SMU uni and made the connection. If he was in a Cowboys or Vikings uni, however...
gnatural
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 00:06 GMT
8 points
@zalkon2004: Okay, so where are the other decades? Bring it on! 60s, 70s, 90s, 00s!
MrMN
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 01:24 GMT
4 points
@caknuck: He's wearing a New Jersey Generals uni in that picture. Like tndawg said, he went to Gerogia. You might be thinking of Dickerson. He went to SMU
tevster1316
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 01:53 GMT
6 points
When boxing was still revered...
Pogues
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 02:34 GMT
3 points
Holy boxers Batman. Not that I'm complaining...I got all 5...but missed the two not so interesting NFL commentators pictured above. I knew I knew Collinsworth's goofy smile...just couldn't place it looking so young.
ajaxfam
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 03:23 GMT
5 points
I think you should allow Eruzione for USA Hockey - lol (only kidding). Fun quiz!
zalkon2004
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 04:54 GMT
3 points
@gnatural & others who are interested - Quizzes for 2000s, 90s, 70s, and a second 80s quiz are located here. (I'm still piecing together the 60s quiz.)
http://www.sporcle.com/games/zalkon2004/sports-illustrated-covers-of-the-2000s
http://www.sporcle.com/games/zalkon2004/sports-illustrated-covers-of-the-90s
http://www.sporcle.com/games/zalkon2004/sports-illustrated-covers-of-the-80s-ii
http://www.sporcle.com/games/zalkon2004/sports-illustrated-covers-of-the-1970s
Thanks for playing all!
wtb2612
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 06:51 GMT
4 points
Wow, that doesn't look like Dominique Wilkins at all.
mrmanheim
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 09:35 GMT
3 points
nailed all. very fun, but that was also decade that I followed all sports. caknuck: what SMU uniform? Makes no sense
unkpoker
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 12:01 GMT
2 points
Steve Young is not Doug Flutie - no matter how many times you try it...good quiz for this 46...um - I mean 35 year old... ;)
biskit67
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 13:57 GMT
2 points
I finished this quiz with 4:50 left on the clock. Guess I watched a lot of sports in the 80s. Great quiz.
slowthinker
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Jul 17th, 2012 at 04:09 GMT
1 point
can't believe I didn't recognize Howie Long. Only one I missed.
ArtVandaley
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Jul 18th, 2012 at 00:59 GMT
1 point
I think I tried to spell Eruzione 10 different ways.
McHinch
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Jul 20th, 2012 at 03:16 GMT
0 points
Had all but one pretty quickly... I was looking at his pic, could SWEAR I saw "Hagler" written on the magazine, and voila! There is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON I should know "Marvin Hagler" by picture. All I know about him- he's black and he's a boxer and he boxed in the 80s and early 90s. Haha, maybe I saw "Baddest" as "Hagler" quickly? Maybe the short A sound resonated in my head? I'll never ever know....
McHinch
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Jul 20th, 2012 at 03:22 GMT
1 point
The first poster has been bashed plenty, and deservedly so. No apology yet? Some f'n nerve! Haha, mrgenova- good point. A North American magazine will indeed tend to show North American athletes on it. No one's mentioned anything about that silly "60s" remark. I'd IMAGINE that the vast majority of quiz-takers were born or grew up in hte 80s for nostalgia-sake. If we're trying to find European sporting from the 60s, maybe a SPORCLE.COM quiz about SPORTS ILLUSTRATED isn't the place to find it....
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