A few direct hits but a lot of groaners in this SI.com look at hockey players and their celebrity twins.
by James Mirtle @ 6:19 PM
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19 Comments:
How could they miss Patrick Sharp and Eric Bana??
In poorer taste than Ovechkin's and Markov's...although I did cringe a bit, I also laughed pretty hard.
Some of those are halarious...and an insult to the players (most notably: Alex Ovechkin).
Ovechkin's was awesome, but the Iginla one is pretty bad. However, Joe Sakic and Peter Forsberg really look like Harry Connick Jr. and Ryan Reynolds: guess we know who's on call if they ever make a movie about the Avalanche (called A Few Old Men, perhaps?)
All right, Andrei Markov and Rowan Atkinson was kind of funny. And it looked like Marco Sturm was trying to look like Adam Sandler. But Iginla and Tyson really was in poor taste - and I'm aware that they both have dark skin tones.
Just curious, why is it in bad taste to some? Because Tyson's an ex-con?
I don't get the "poor taste."
Somebody from the PC squad please explain.
iginla's black
tyson's black
i guess they look alike!
They should have named the feature
"NHL players resembling people you've never heard of but we happen to have some pictures handy"
Seriously, who the heck were those people
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To the clueless:
How would you like to be told you look like a rapist?
Why does so much have to read into it? They DO look very similar, at least in that picture. That's why it's there.
Where was Wayne Gretzky and Meryl Streep?
WHERE WAS JEREMY ROENICK AND TONY HAWK?
Me and my best friend have been saying they look EXACTLY alike for YEARS.
They could have done Iginla and ARod, but that's not much of an improvement. I would have picked Iginla and Barack Obama myself.
So the conclusion is that to say any black man looks like any other black man is in bad taste? Seems silly to me. They actually do look somewhat alike in those pictures. Not very much, but no less so than some of the other pairs they posted, caucasian or otherwise.
People say that Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin looks exactly like actor Omar Epps all the time. Is that in poor taste?
One more time: is it 'cute' to say "hey, you look like this rapist I know"?
Or, to carry it a bit further, how about "All these white players look like professional actors but the black guy looks like a violent thug."
Even if you feel that he does look like Tyson, maybe leaving the rapists out of your fun feature is a good idea.
Apparently SI is in on the "Crosby Conspiracy."
Sidney Crosby looks like a guy known for cute comedic shorts, and made a very popular video with Justin Timberlake.
Alexander Ovechkin looks like a guy who played a Bond villain and was known for his metal teeth.
Considering that its the playoffs, it must have been a really slow news day at SI to come up with this feature.
Some really bored intern had a field day with google image search.
One glaring omission: KD Lang = Mario Lemieux
Iginla does look like Tyson (except better teeth).
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