SI in SI, Si?

In a moment of supreme intelligence we have come up with a stellar idea. We are going to write to Sports Illustrated – the world’s preeminent sports magazine – and suggest a new feature in their pages: a small blurb featuring a rec team with an accompanying picture of said team and the website (when applicable) of said team.

SI's primary focus is on professional sports and athletes, but they do have regular features like Faces in the Crowd, and coverage of college and high school sports, which focus on the non-professional athletes of the world. Having SI do a small piece each issue that gives print space to adults who pay money to play sports in their spare time – for love of game – would be, we think, a cool addition to their already fabulous magazine. We can envision a future where rec teams across North America and beyond would send in a blurb, a photo, and their website's address. SI would pick one rec team for each issue, edit the blurb as needed, contact team reps for supplemental info when needed, and regular folks – like us! – would get a thrill from being in the world’s preeminent sports magazine.

In the near future we will email SI with our self-proclaimed stellar idea, and include links to our official team site and this blog – and this post in particular. Maybe the powers that be at SI will think it’s a strong idea, maybe they’ll think it’s a silly idea. Having sufficient interest on display in this post’s comment section when/if SI staff look at this blog(post) will help our cause, or so we believe. So if you like the idea, chatter! Surrey Indians players, chatter! Players’ partners, children, friends, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, chatter! All others, chatter! Don’t be silently indifferent, chatter! If you don't want to chatter with your real name, you can chatter with a secret identity. And while you’re chattering, go ahead and suggest possible names for this new feature…

If SI did suddenly implement our stellar idea, perhaps they would acknowledge the origins of the idea by featuring the Surrey Indians as the first rec team. After all, in addition to all that is written above, our team name shares the same initials as the world's preeminent sports magazine. So do the Springfield Isotopes, but that’s stupidly irrelevant.