“He said, ‘You know, it’s kind of like a marriage,’” Williams said, impersonating Le Batard, the former Miami Herald columnist “’and so what if we did a picture of you in a wedding dress and Coach Ditka in a tuxedo.’”

“The negative reaction to that infamous wedding-dress photo on the magazine’s cover — even though it wasn’t my idea, even though my boss, Ditka, was in the photo, endorsing the joke — was a little overwhelming,” he wrote at the time.

That was a bad idea on many levels. 

But wow, what a memorable cover. 

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