Sports Blog

This week in sports blogs and news:

• Plaxico Burress, Chad Johnson and Anquan Boldin want to be traded - SI
• Roberto Alomar’s ex-girlfriend claims he gave her AIDS and is suing him - SportsByBrooks
• 2009 Detroit Lions “Schedule” released - Larry Brown Sports
• Sal Fasano can save baseball - The Sports Hernia
• Ken Griffey Jr. may be going back to Seattle - Seattle Mariners Website
• Mike Tyson to write a book - Contact Music
• FBI to tackle baffling Super Bowl porn case - Deadspin

This week on the Smarter Sports Blog we covered:

• “Knew I Shouldn’t Have Taken That Hit”
• Lawrence Taylor to Start “Dancing”
• Dwayne Wade’s Image Is Not So Clean After All
• Mo Williams Finally Makes the All-Star Team
• Southwest Airlines Loves Bikinis and Bar Refaeli
  

I just caught site of this picture and found it quite funny.

I didn’t know the airlines were doing so bad that they needed to use sex as an advertising ploy. Are we such a shallow culture, that people will buy more tickets just because there is a hot, beautiful, half-naked woman painted on the side of an airliner?

Yes we are.

Southwest Airlines has taken things to a whole new level, putting the most recent Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition on the side of one of their planes.

I can see it now. Little kids, holding their little teddy bears at the airport terminals, next to hungover frat boys coming back from Vegas, watching the planes land.

“Look, up in the sky! “

“It’s a bird!”

“It’s a plane!”

“Wait…those are Bo…”

Nevermind.

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