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At the time, many believed sports was beneath the attention of serious journalism and didn't think sports news could fill a weekly magazine, especially during the winter. A number of advisers to Luce, including pu Life Magazine pu 's Ernest Havemann , tried to kill the idea, but Luce, who was not a sports fan, decided the time was right. The goal of the new magazine was to be "not a sports magazine, but the sports magazine.

Swanberg wrote that the company's intellectuals dubbed the proposed magazine "Muscle," "Jockstrap," and "Sweat Socks. The popularity of spectator sports in the United States was about to explode, and that popularity came to be driven largely by three things: Economic prosperity, television, and Sports Illustrated. The early issues of the magazine seemed caught between two opposing views of its audience.

Much of the subject matter was directed at upper class activities such as yachting , polo and safari s, but upscale would-be advertisers were unconvinced that sports fans were a significant part of their market. The pu Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue pu , has been published since , it is an annual publishing event that generates considerable interest and has a loyal following.

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