Maybe the genie had a hearing problem?
They certainly are all remarkably attractive.
You could just link to the body issue, which is an annual thing.
I'm very confused by this link. These are photos from the espn body issue, as the link indicates. espn has the body issue photographs on its own website. (http://espn.go.com/espn/bodyissue).
Did dose.com (whatever that is?) just blatantly scrape all these pictures from the espn website and repost them for pageviews? I would have thought that would raise copyright issues, or something.
Let me be the first to suggest that these images are from the ESPN body issue.
I liked the basketball player's homage to the (dreadfully cheesy) Cyd Charisse veil and wind machine effect from the dream within a dream part of Broadway Rhythm from Singin' In the Rain. He'd kill the emerald green sequin number she wears at the beginning of that sequence.
I'm kind of curious, and I don't know if ESPN is explicit about this or not: obviously, the pictures are taken to be attractive, it's not medical documentation. But are the subjects selected as particularly pretty great athletes -- a randomly selected draw of equally competitive athletes wouldn't necessarily look that good -- or is that about what you get when you strip down anyone who's professional grade in most sports?
or is that about what you get when you strip down anyone who's professional grade in most sports?
I can't speak for most sports, but certainly going to s / avate competitions, the aggregate level of general attractiveness is pretty high,* and most people except the fringe competitors from smaller countries have great bodies.
I expect something similar holds for most sports, except for those that demand really extreme body types.
* I can think, just from my own small-ish exposure of at least two or three s / avate fighters who are also models, for example.**
** which does seem a risky sport for someone who makes a living from their appearance.
And is it because being physically fit also makes you more attractive, or because we've been socialised into thinking that the obvious signs of high physical fitness are attractive?
Also I'm confused by the 12" archer
Phrasing!
9. If you were a crude Darwinian, you would say the former. Straightforward sexual selection - high levels of physical fitness produce all kinds of traits which would make you more likely to engender surviving offspring. On the other hand, I suspect that the latter plays a pretty big part too.
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12. I'm working on the tv show right now.
I can only hope it was ultimately decided by a dance-off between counsel.
For my part, I had no idea that Kevin Love was built like that. I've always thought of him as sort of doughy.
I've always thought of him as sort of doughy.
He used to be. I knew he had slimmed down but I was also surprised to see that he had changed his body that much.
9, 11: serious jugglers - people at national juggling festivals - are on average quite good looking, even though most of them aren't professional performers. They're more likely to be professional mathematicians or physicists. I decided its a group of people who suffered remarkably little developmental insult and look Darwinianly good.
On the veldt, men juggled Acheulian hand axes to attract women.
It's possible that if you have the gene for juggling, you don't get to pass it on unless you can compensate by way of physical attraction.
19: The uncoordinated were dismembered before they could reproduce, which greatly improved the species, and also proves that I don't exist.
7: A little of both, I think. The archer is a bit of an outlier, but most of the rest of the images aren't too surprising given the sports represented. Being ultralean and training for power will get most people as good as they're going to look.
I suppose he might have been less attractive if he hadn't been a professional basketball player.
You made me look at DeAndre Jordan, aka cowardly devil traitor radical evil burn in hell
You made me look at DeAndre Jordan, aka cowardly traitor oathbreaking radical evil burn in hell
I suppose he might have been less attractive if he hadn't been a professional basketball player.
Cf. Peter Crouch:
Q. "What would you be if you weren't a footballer?"
A. "A virgin."
I don't recall ever seeing a picture of a playing-age Larry Bird naked, or even topless. He probably had a more attractive physique than you're giving his face credit for.
Regardless of what his physique looked like, it would have suffered from being near his face.
Larry Bird was a long time ago, and training standard were different then. For a contemporary example do an image search for Chris Kaman (who looks bad with both long hair and a shaved head).
Looking up pictures of Larry Bird, I find the Frosted Mini-Wheats box oddly amusing.
I love how serious Nick gets about the physiques of athletes. Really! It's cute.
Love where you're taking this LB.
(I'm sure Larry Bird's face wasn't offputting to anyone who really cared for him. Or, I suppose, was emotionally invested in Indiana basketball, which is probably the entire state of Indiana. In short, I shouldn't be making fun of Larry Bird's looks, but I'm sure he never had a moment's worry over them.)
Damn it, just as soon as I issued praise. Nut up or shut up. Larry Bird is a hideous poophead.
Are today's basketball players as much better at the game as they are at having muscle definition? I've sort of wondered that for a while. Football players don't look that different from how they looked 30 years ago, but basketball (and baseball) players look stronger.
Maybe weightlifting hit football first, so they haven't changed in the last 30 years because they'd changed already?
Football players don't look that different from how they looked 30 years ago
This seems wrong.
Wait, are you talking about football football or soccer?
35: I'm soft. I looked at myself, and realized that there I was critiquing a celebrity for failing to meet an arbitrary beauty standard, just like I get all testy about when other people do it.
By I mostly do watch Nebraska and they were one of the first to move on some of that conditioning stuff.
The pictures are all a bit creepy and Leni Riefenstahl ish. Like most professional athletics, I suppose. The Olympics in their current form are basically Nazi.
I hope you never borrow money from the IOC.
I thought I could discriminate between the nes where the athlete was doing things related to their profesion, which were interesting and atractive, and the posed ones, which were porny and sometimes funny as well. So many of the men should have had LAYDEEZ written across them.
I love how serious Nick gets about the physiques of athletes.
Heh.
I don't know that I'm particularly serious about athletes per se; I just tend towards earnestness seriousness as a default tone.
Dead thread, but here's a great picture showing a working dancer's intricate back muscles: https://instagram.com/p/5JsdsXnrZD/.
My back probably looks like that, except broader and hairier.
hahahahahaha! Moby you are such a card!
This is also a great picture showing a working dancer's back.
I wonder if my ex's crazy rich ballet-patron dude succeeded in his plans to increase his used shoe collection. He was going to attempt to bribe … someone super famous, I can't remember, though I was forced to stand outside the stage door so the said ex could greet her once.
Does he like sniff them or something?
As previously mentioned here, in fact.
