Mario Named SI's Sportsman Of The Year
12.06.05 - The famed Nintendo video game character "Mario" has been named as Sports Illustrated's "Sportsman of the Year" for 2005.
The article listed Mario's contributions to baseball, golf, tennis and soccer, as well as his charitable work with hunger-relief agency Northwest Harvest, as reasons why he was given the nod.
"Mario is the number one video game mascot in the world, and now Sports Illustrated has decided he is the number one athlete as well," says Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sales & marketing. "That makes a lot of sense, considering Nintendo's committment to being recognized as being the best."
"Mario is like the Bo Jackson of the new millenium," added Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing & corporate affairs. "Only without the hip injuries."
Comments
they forgot aboot his playing basketball and his downhill stuff too and his dancing if you can even call that a sport
Posted by: bob | December 9, 2005 1:20 AM