four point play….
1. In 1989, “NBA Awesome Endings” was somehow delivered to my childhood home in Mentor, Ohio. I’m not sure whether it was a special gift for having renewed Sports Illustrated, or whether my mother had ordered it for me on a whim.
I’d be surprised if it wasn’t the former. SI did a great job of roping people into subscriptions during that era. Ya know, that, and my parents weren’t much for random gifts.
Before SI changed the world with the singularly best subscription bonus ever (see above), they dished out all sorts of random videos for us to enjoy in the pre-internet age.