[sumo] Dreadful Commercialism of Sumo

[David Luke]

I haven't seen Runners World, but from the description, it sounds  
like it may be the same photo that's on the back of Aerosmith's 1994  
album "Big Ones".  You can see that cover art at (e.g.)

http://www.copertinedvd.net/audio/A/Aerosmith%20-%20big%20ones%20-% 
20back.jpg



On Jan 5, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Charles Finberg wrote:

> That's what I meant.  I could be wrong, but it sure looked like  
> Mainoumi
> from behind.
>
> On 1/5/08, Jim Bitgood <Jimbit2 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> No profile in this picture. Unless you mean the silhouette of the
>> mage from directly behind it. It's a great shot of
>> Konishiki's "game face" though.
>>
>> At 19:09 1/5/2008, you wrote:
>>> If it's the same one I recall, it was a classic Konishiki v.  
>>> Mainoumi
>> photo,
>>> taken from behind Mainoumi but with enough of his profile to permit
>>> identification, which gave me the opportunity to tell my  
>>> acquaintances
>> about
>>> their matches.  They were very impressed by my display of  
>>> knowledge, but
>> I
>>> remain invisible to teenage girls.
>>>
>>> On 1/5/08, Jim Bitgood <Jimbit2 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else seen the inside back cover of the December 07 issue
>>>> of "Runners World"?
>>>> There is a great full page picture of Konishiki taken from  
>>>> behind his
>>>> opponent just before tachi-ai. It's an ad for Hyundai, curiously
>>>> enough. I assume that Konishiki got paid for the use of his image.
>>>> Wonder if the other guy got paid for image of the back of his  
>>>> mage???
>>>> It would be a really fantastic picture if it didn't have the
>>>> advertising copy printed on it.
>>
>>         Jim
>>         "Chitose-Taikai"
>>
>>
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