If you’re the type of sports fan who peruses moderately small sports blogs, then I’ll go ahead and assume that you have at least some familiarity with the Costacos Brothers and their posters that saturated the sports market in the late 80’s and early 90’s. If not, Dull Subjects put together a nice collection and the Legend of Cecilio Guante has written about them as well. Their premise was simple. They’d take an athlete and then dress them in some sort of ridiculous garb, usually based upon a movie, tv show, etc. In fact, they’re still making posters today, but they just don’t seem to have the same flair that they used to. What’s even more disheartening is that it doesn’t even seem that the athletes are involved in the process at all anymore, as most, if not all of the shots appear to from game-action photos. Perhaps, it’s that today’s athletes take themselves too seriously, but after looking over what the brothers Costacos have been putting out over the last few years, I just don’t find the posters to be the least bit enjoyable or imaginative as they were when I was growing up. The newer creations that I’ve seen are either just generic, corny, or borderline racist. This just didn’t sit right with me. So after thumbing through Tirico Suave’s vast athlete rolodex and calling in a few favors, I was able to set up a a handful of photoshoots with some of today’s most prominent athletes. As an added bonus to our loyal Tirico Suave readers, I’ve decided to offer a sneak peak at some of these exclusive posters before they become available to the general public.
13 responses so far ↓
1 Cecilio's Scribe // Apr 10, 2008 at 8:57 am
Phenomenal.
2 Shakespeare DiMaggio // Apr 10, 2008 at 9:45 am
Stanley Pringle’s Grandmother would like one of those posters to hang in the den.
3 Stanley Pringle's Grandmother // Apr 10, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Please send two copies of the poster; you know, just in case I spill hand lotion on the first one.
4 Stanley Pringle // Apr 10, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Yo haters! This is how I CHILL, man!
5 David Eckstein // Apr 10, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Someone sent me this link because apparently there was a mention of me in an article. However, my parents put strict content filtering on my computer which in turn isn’t letting me view this page, but I just wanted to say thanks anyway! I have to go, my bagel bites are ready! Peace out!
Eck
6 Adam // Apr 10, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Dude, the Eckstein one is hilarious.
7 Dice // Apr 10, 2008 at 1:39 pm
“スキーに行くのが好きです 私はタイ料理がいいです田中”
Translation:
“OH!”
8 Darko Miličić // Apr 10, 2008 at 1:52 pm
This shithead blogger disgraced me, that’s what happened, I’m gonna fuck em up, all of them, mothafuckas, all of them, fuck your mom conceded Italian bitch, that’s all I have to say…Harvey Bars is a shithead man, suck my dick a little, I’ll write that down, all of them, the first, second and the third, I don’t give a fuck who they are. This muthafucker don’t know anything. They’ll shitted their pants, I’m gonna fuck his wife… if he has a daughter her too…
9 The Sports Hernia // Apr 11, 2008 at 9:33 am
Awesome.
10 John Costacos // Apr 11, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Sports posters today are very weak compared to what they could be. My brother and I sold Costacos Brothers Sports in 1996 and it has been sold three times since then, though they kept the Costacos Sports name. With current digital technology and production ability on computers, this should be the most creative time ever for posters. I’m not sure why they’re not stepping it up. I think we were just lucky enough to create a culture where we were really passionate about each poster. It was good fun. Thank you for the compliments
John A. Costacos
11 Rhymeister // Apr 11, 2008 at 3:01 pm
LMAO, I’m sure they would sell well. They need a site for posters like they do with clothes (zazzle, cafepress).
Marco had a brain fart ^.
12 Rhymeister // Apr 11, 2008 at 3:02 pm
““スキーに行くのが好きです 私はタイ料理がいいです田中” — No, translation, I like to go skiing, I like Thai food (Tanaka). Uh, um….okies. LMAO!
13 Mike // Apr 11, 2008 at 3:18 pm
This is very funny
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