If you want to see Texans defensive tackle Vince Wilfork, Steelers receiver Antonio Brown and Broncos linebacker Von Miller in the nude, you’re in luck.
ESPN has announced that those three NFL players are among the athletes who will appear in this year’s “Body Issue,” which is ESPN’s answer to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, only (as Kevin Garnett and Stephon Marbury memorably said) all nude.
The enormous Wilfork said he’s excited to show what an athlete his size looks like.
“I know I don’t have the six-packs and the eight-packs and all that . . . but I’m perfectly fine with what I am.” Wilfork said, in a statement released by ESPN. “If people can look at me, look at a guy that’s 325-plus doing an issue like this, I’m pretty sure that they might have a little confidence after seeing that it’s OK to be who you are.”
Unlike the Swimsuit Issue, which is purely salacious, the Body Issue has real journalistic merit as an endeavor to show what athletes of all shapes and sizes really look like. Wilfork, Brown and Miller are joining 16 other athletes from several different sports in showing off their assets.
