I don’t, alas, believe for a second that this magazine cover is real but, my, how I really, really wish it were.
Anyway, it seems that Mike Tyson is going to be appearing in a new reality TV show about, yup, pigeon racing. Really, right now, I’m pushed to come up with a better TV proposal than that.
Needless to say the folks at PETA are not amused.
But according to the New York Post Tyson’s been part of the fancy since he was a kid. This will be the first time he’s trained doos for actual racing, however. The Post reports:
Tyson began with pigeons, he says, at age 10 or 11 in his Brownsville neighborhood, swiping milk crates for bigger kids who used them as coops for their birds.
“I cleaned cages,” he says. “I was their go-fer.”
In exchange, “I got the strays.”
He kept his birds in a small coop attached to the windowsill of his apartment on Amboy Street for a while, he says, and later in a nearby abandoned building.
“I couldn’t fly them off the roof,” he explains.
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