Move over, SI. There’s a new cover jinx in town.
Have a nice flight home, loozahs.
This is a photo of Javaris Crittenton that ran accompanying this ESPN story. Notice anything strange?
It looks like the logo on Crittenton’s shirt is sticking into the foreground. You can tell where it meets the rail, where the edge of the Polo logo is actually in front of the metal bar. I don’t know if Getty Images is responsible, or ESPN, but it’s very strange, especially since Crittenton is facing murder charges.
Maybe it’s a weird camera trick. Maybe it’s a bored graphic designer. Or maybe Ralph Lauren has decided they want to be a part of the worst product placement of all time. “Remember how visible the Ford Bronco was after the O.J. chase? We want to bring that kind of excitement to Ralph Lauren.”
(Al Seib-Pool/Getty Images)
It’s also possible that ESPN is blackmailing companies by threatening to add their logos to sports villains. We’ll see if there’s a future story about Terrell Owens and his search for a new team with an awkwardly-offset Sprite logo on his t-shirt skin-tight Lycra bodysuit.
Someone said we’d always remember where we were when we heard about Bin Laden’s death. Well, I was watching ESPN, which made it especially surreal. How would SportsCenter have covered the story? I think it would have gone a little something like…this.
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