For those living under a rock, you may not know that the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition is out, and it features NFL cheerleaders in swimsuits and go go boots, among many models. I've met the Texans cheerleading twins featured in it, Larisa and Marisa, and was curious to see how they were photographed for SI.Apparently, the stylist was having a big hair day with all the NFL cheerleaders, and decided to give them a curly windswept look. I wore my hair that way for an 80's party last weekend, and I can't say it's the best look on too many people, including me. (thankfully, I have no pictures).
I think Larisa and Marisa look much better in person, and their photos are more flattering on the HoustonTexans.com twins page (you can choose dance and 360 degree view [!]) and photo gallery, or the ones featured at TexansBullPen.com. I suspect, however, that a number of guys may enjoy the SI.com video featuring the twins dancing during their photo shoot.
The strange thing about the SI.com twins photo gallery is that whoever created it mixed up the twins with other Texans cheerleaders, such as Samantha and Edith. Maybe SI believes that the Texans have quadruplets or something.
I can sorta kinda understand the confusion because I don't think the twin's pictures in SI look much like them. So if you are terribly bored, go play spot the fake twin cheerleaders game before SI realizes that all dark-haired, tan-skinned girls aren't identical twins and changes up the gallery.
The swimsuit issue doesn't do anything for me personally, but I suppose it wouldn't exist if there weren't some guys
According to SI, they expect this issue will be read by 69 million people, and their website will receive 250 million page views.
Previously at FanHouse:
High Tech Texans Cheerleaders Meant to Distract You
Video of Your 2007 Texans Cheerleaders
Sorry, No Photos
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-13-2008 @ 11:35AM
Ted Striker said...
Yeoman's work you're doing here Steph. The 80s hair was a little disappointing, but it's good to see some national recognition of two of Houston's treasures.
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2-16-2008 @ 9:17AM
bennyprince said...
The twins are about average for Houston. It's ashame they didn't pick our prettiest cheerleaderfor SI... http://www.houstontexans.com/cheerleaders/Cheerleader.asp?cheerleader_id=4
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2-17-2008 @ 2:43AM
Dale said...
Your whole comments about "fake twin cheerleaders" is frankly very dopey! There's no better word for it. S.I. merely labeled ALL of the Houston Texans cheerleader's photos with Larisa & Marisa, plus a
number, for simplicity's sake. Just as long as at least one of them is in the photo, that is O.K.
What wouldn't be O.K. would be one labeled this way with neither one of them in it.
Also, if if you would open your eyes and close your complaining mouth, you would notice that there are some pictures labeled with Larisa & Marisa, but there is only one of them in it.
I do agree that it would be journalistly more accurate to label the picture with just the one name (just the correct one), but labeling
it with both names is par for the course in journalistic laziness nowadays. At least they were dealing with identical twins in this case....
DAW
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2-17-2008 @ 2:44AM
Dale A. Wood said...
Your whole comments about "fake twin cheerleaders" is frankly very dopey! There's no better word for it. S.I. merely labeled ALL of the Houston Texans cheerleader's photos with Larisa & Marisa, plus a number, for simplicity's sake. Just as long as at least one of them is in the photo, that is O.K.
What wouldn't be O.K. would be one labeled this way with neither one of them in it.
Also, if if you would open your eyes and close your complaining mouth, you would notice that there are some pictures labeled with Larisa & Marisa, but there is only one of them in it.
I do agree that it would be journalistly more accurate to label the picture with just the one name (just the correct one), but labeling it with both names is par for the course in journalistic laziness nowadays. At least they were dealing with identical twins in this case....
DAW
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2-17-2008 @ 10:38AM
Dale A. Wood said...
Your whole comments about "fake twin cheerleaders" is frankly very dopey! There's no better word for it.
S.I. merely labeled ALL of the Houston Texans cheerleader's photos with Larisa & Marisa, plus a number, for simplicity's sake. Just as long as at least one of them is in the photo, that is O.K.
What wouldn't be O.K. would be one labeled this way with neither one of them in it.
Also, if if you would open your eyes and close your complaining mouth, you would notice that there are some pictures labeled with Larisa & Marisa, but there is only one of them in it.
I do agree that it would be journalistly more accurate to label the picture with just the one name (just the correct one), but labeling it with both names is par for the course in journalistic laziness nowadays. At least they were dealing with identical twins in this case....
DAW
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2-17-2008 @ 10:47AM
Stephanie Stradley said...
Dale-
Hey, no need to get angry with me--my eyes are plenty open. Please, look at the entire twin gallery. Where they have close ups of the faces. There are a number of pictures where neither of the twins are in the pictures.
Such as this picture:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2008_swimsuit/cheerleaders/larisa-marisa-coy/08_larisa-marisa-coy_12.html
and this picture:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2008_swimsuit/cheerleaders/larisa-marisa-coy/08_larisa-marisa-coy_13.html
and this picture:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2008_swimsuit/cheerleaders/larisa-marisa-coy/08_larisa-marisa-coy_17.html
No Texans twins in those pictures, but those pictures are in the gallery. Whoever was chosing the pictures for SI.com goofed up.
Thanks for reading and commenting,
Steph
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