Joe Starkey

Is the NFL dying?

It didn't die.

It's done pretty well since then.

One of the greatest days of my life was my Aunt Viv, who was very glamorous.

She lived in Manhattan.

She used to come up to Buffalo every year around Christmas and bring us all nice gifts.

She got me my first Sports Illustrated subscription limits.

And what a day it was when that came in the mail.

And that thing...

That thing kept coming to me to college, switched my address to college, and there was no better day.

I think it would come on Fridays than when I got my Sports Illustrated in the mail.

You can't even relate to that, can you?

No, I can't, actually.

I used to get – my cousin Megan would buy them for me.

Sports Illustrated's in the mail up until about, I think, seven years ago or so.

So growing up, I still have the 2016 cover of when the Penguins won the Cup.

I have the 2017 cover when the Penguins won the Cup that I have in my house that I kept.

I kept a lot of the most memorable Sports Illustrateds.

Have you found anything on the 1989 football season?

Surprisingly, not nearly as much as I thought I would.