A  nice trip down memory lane courtesy of Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch, who reminded us that this issue of Sports Illustrated came out 19 years ago today. I would make fun of Michael’s decision to wear No. 45 for no real reason, but I’m the same person who has started and ended roughly 500 different sports sites in the last decade, so I have no right.

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