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Georgia Football Star Passes On "Playboy" Offer
MetroSource newswire
| 05/30/03
| Dom Dornbberg
Posted on 05/30/2003 2:54:57 AM PDT by prisoner6
(Athens, GA) -- A star player for the University of Georgia football team is turning down an offer from "Playboy" to pose for a picture for the magazine's All-American football team.
David Pollack, a defensive end who helped propel Georgia to it's first SEC championship in 20 years, says his religious beliefs are at odds with the magazine's content.
Pollack told the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution" that he is honored by the invitation, but can't square it with his faith. In Pollack's words, "when you talk to somebody about living their lives the right way and abstaining from sex until marriage, posing in 'Playboy' would send the wrong message."
Pollack, who is the SEC's 2002 Player of the Year, was one of 22 atheletes invited to "Playboy's" weeklong photo shoot in California earlier this month.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: football; playboy; pollack; sec
I'm far from being a prude and personally wouldn't have a big problem with being in the mag, but I really admire this young guy for sticking to his beliefs and turning down the offer.
Good for him!
prisoner6
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posted on
05/30/2003 2:54:57 AM PDT
by
prisoner6
To: prisoner6
I am gonna buy that edition just to make sure he does not appear. Will report back.
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posted on
05/30/2003 3:00:25 AM PDT
by
chance33_98
(www.hannahmore.com -- Shepherd Of Salisbury Plain is online, more to come! (my website))
To: prisoner6
I'm not a prude either and I enjoy sex as much as the next man but I would draw the line on posing in Playboy. Yeah the money's tempting but life isn't about money. Its about living up to the values you believe in and showing people its hip to be old-fashioned in this era of non-judgmentalism and moral relativism.
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posted on
05/30/2003 3:02:29 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: chance33_98
Chance33_98 - your willingness to go the extra mile is admirable. We'll all be indebted to you!
I am wondering, however, what is this world coming to when Playboy is starting to include pictures of MEN posing in its magazine. Is nothing sacred any more?
To: mn-bush-man
Yeah we used to know centerfolds were beautiful women. Is this for the gay market? Cause I sure as heck am not interested in a guy in the buff.
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posted on
05/30/2003 3:09:53 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: mn-bush-man
I am wondering, however, what is this world coming to when Playboy is starting to include pictures of MEN posing in its magazine A new bi-sexual audience?
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posted on
05/30/2003 3:11:43 AM PDT
by
chance33_98
(www.hannahmore.com -- Shepherd Of Salisbury Plain is online, more to come! (my website))
To: chance33_98
lol... Playboy put out Playgirl in the 1970s in the hopes of securing female readers. It flopped. Turned out women weren't as interested in beefcake hotties as men were interested in centerfold babes.
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posted on
05/30/2003 3:14:37 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: mn-bush-man
No. This is the preseason All-American football team article. They've been doing this for a long time. May very well date back to the '70's.
To: johniegrad
Yeah... people do read Playboy and Penthouse for the non-sexual content and interviews. Really. ;-)
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posted on
05/30/2003 3:17:27 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: johniegrad
They don't pose nude do they? I haven't read a Playboy for years, so I can't recall. I think the last one I bought featured the Swedish Bikini Team.
prisoner6
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posted on
05/30/2003 3:19:32 AM PDT
by
prisoner6
( Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the left fall out!)
To: prisoner6
hehehe... are you married? I don't think the wife wants that stuff around the house. :)
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posted on
05/30/2003 3:20:31 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
You know, after posting this I got to thinking and I remember lots of great articles and journalism from the '60's & 70's. I think I read a couple of Ian Flemming novels that were serialized.
There were cool articles on things men were interested in besides sex. Already a pipe smoker, I learned lots more about tobacco, pipes and cigars in Playboy.
Same thing with fine clothes, the latest stereo equipment, cars, photography and more.
Really I would have bought the mag WITHOUT the girls, but the eye-candy was a pleasant and >usually< tasteful compliment to the articles.
prisoner6
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posted on
05/30/2003 3:30:58 AM PDT
by
prisoner6
( Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the left fall out!)
To: prisoner6
Yup... male nature being what is we are interested in looking at women even if they protest we're guilty of "lookism." The reality is their ego tends to be puffed up as as much as ours by their realization how much we like they way they look.
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posted on
05/30/2003 3:33:52 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: prisoner6
Good for Pollack! Wasn't there also another player who refused to appear in that sleazy magazine?
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posted on
05/30/2003 3:34:23 AM PDT
by
Dante3
(.)
To: goldstategop
In fact I got the Swedish Bikini Team issue to show Wife. She though the beer commercial was cute and wondered if the girls were really from Sweden. I picked up the issue for the bios, and I bet it's still around the house somewhere. Might just go look for it later today.
prisoner6
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posted on
05/30/2003 3:36:07 AM PDT
by
prisoner6
( Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the left fall out!)
To: Dante3
Wasn't there also another player who refused to appear in that sleazy magazine? Every couple of years, one or two guys decline the invite. They are still named to the team, they just don't have their picture taken with the rest of the guys. For those who don't know, it's a simple picture with all of the guys standing around in their jerseys. It looks more like a Gap ad than a Playboy shoot.
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posted on
05/30/2003 4:26:06 AM PDT
by
Mr. Bird
To: goldstategop
IIRC Playboy sued Playgirl over it's name when Playgirl first appeared so I doubt it was a Playboy operation.
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posted on
05/30/2003 4:26:10 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: prisoner6
You know, after posting this I got to thinking and I remember lots of great articles and journalism from the '60's & 70's.
You got it for the "articles" to? So did I.
Riiight.
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posted on
05/30/2003 6:55:24 AM PDT
by
Valin
(Age and deceit beat youth and skill)
To: prisoner6
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