The best New Yorker cover in...a long long time? pic.twitter.com/Z9qYaU9Kjp
— Adam Duerson (@adamduerson) September 22, 2014 ‘New Yorker’ cover features NFL running from cops
Bill Hanstock is a writer, author and Emmy Award-winning producer. He began writing for SB Nation in 2011.
Artist Barry Blitt tells the story behind this destined-to-be-iconic cover:
I grew up drawing a lot of hockey pictures-football, not so much. The only thing I knew about the Canadian Football League was that, of its nine teams, two were called either the Roughriders or the Rough Riders. My current awareness of the N.F.L. has little to do with the actual games being played on the field, alas.
