I have just learnt that most bookstores were running out the 2008 issue of Les Dieux du Stade calendar. For the moment, Amazon.fr still carries some. 200,000 copies have sold and the rugby team's manager has asked for more to be printed ASAP.

Why are people buying the calendar like mad? Well, one factor is certainly the Rugby World Cup, taking in place in France right now. Rugby fans from all over the world are probably buying the French Rugby Players' calendar as a nice souvenir from France.

The other reason is the photographer's talent: Steven Klein has managed to create a new style for the calendar, while keeping it erotic.

I have shot a video of me turning the pages of the calendar, one by one. As you will notice, there is not 12, but more than 30 big, all-color, superb photographs. It is so big that I even have a hard time flipping through it!  Get the calendar before everybody runs out of stock!

Flipping through the Dieux du Stade 2008 calendar