Swimsuit Issue

This year I received my 20th swimsuit issue as a subscriber to Sports Illustrated. I remember the first one which was the 25th anniversary issue with Kathy Ireland on the cover.
As a prepubescent boy in the pre-internet days I was very excited to thumb through the pages and see gorgeous women in swimsuits.
20 years later, I'm a postpubescent (barely) male who has access to tons of pictures of tons of hot women on the internet every day.
So the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue has lost some of its luster.
But it's still cool. My favorite part of the recent issues is the players' wives because they used to be women you would never see any other time. This year though they went with athletes whose wives have been photographed quite a bit.

There is the incredibly hot Carmella Garcia, nee DeCesare who has been featured on The Poop before and posed for Playboy. The reason for her suit covering her midsection is that she was pregnant at the time, she's due in April.



Ingrid Vandenbosch, wife of Jeff Gordon is actually a professional model, so it's now surprise that her pictures came out great.



Then there's Michelle Damon who also has been covered here on the Poop.



The fourth athlete's wife featured was Mrs. Melo, LaLa Vazquez, which I found disappointing for two reasons, first she's famous so we already know about her, and second she's not hot.



One player's girlfriend made it into the magazine for another reason. Osi Umenyiora is dating supermodel Selita Ebanks who made the issue on her own merits.



For the past several years, SI has also featured a hot female athlete and this year they chose Danica Patrick.



And for the first time this year SI made the natural connection and got NFL Cheerleaders to pose including former Cheerleaders of the Week, Larisa and Marisa.



Finally a couple of the regular models I really like, Bar Refaeli



And Jessica White.