The Mets beat the Pirates today by a score of seven to six. Considering it happened on July 4th, I’m wondering if any newspapers will headline it as, “SPIRIT OF 7-6.”
PAD
The Mets beat the Pirates today by a score of seven to six. Considering it happened on July 4th, I’m wondering if any newspapers will headline it as, “SPIRIT OF 7-6.”
PAD
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Yep, that sounds about tacky enough to me to be a sports headline.
Please be aware that I am in no way making fun of YOU, PAD, but instead am making fun of tacky sports headline writers who regularly produce the lamest headlines possible.
I do not get this joke. At all. Someone must explain it to me right now. Keep in mind, I’ve been drinking all day, so explain really … slowly…
They will now 🙂
This is what I love about you and Gene Weingarten. Both of you are extremely intelligent and witty and you know the value of a good silly pun.
I liked the Daily News take on things, honoring the great slide that decided the game: Endypendence Day
I’m surprised you didn’t comment on the hammering the Yankees received on George Steinbrenner’s birthday.
Heh. Still, my favorite punniest sports headline remains from when the Australian Pat Cash defeated Czech Ivan Lendl at Wimbledon in 1987 which some paper somewhere announced with the headline:
PAT CASHES CZECH, MATE
Still clueless over here, yo.
7-6 is is said aloud as “Seven to Six” which sounds like “Seventy-six.” “Spirit of Seventy-Six” is a book about the American Revolution.
As we say over at Zug.com, I’ve killed teh funny.
My funniest sports headline which I read was from our local paper earlier this year. Our nearby university mascot is the Humboldt State Lumberjacks. The women’s teams call themselves the Lady Jacks (you see where this is going, right?)… … so the headline read:
Lady Jáçkš Øff To A Good Start
Ahem.
I don’t write ’em; I just report ’em.
Spooky Mizu
The NY Post is the unchallenged Grand Poobah of Memorable Sports Headlines.
An all-time favorite:
Then-Yankee Jose Vizcaino was hit by a pitch, which led to a bases-clearing brawl. The Post ran a photo of the altercation the next day with the headline NOBODY BEANS THE VIZ.
this one always sticks in my mind –
Happened to see a report on the horse races on a sports channel while waiting for something else to come up – his name at the bottom of the screen? ……. Willie Stroker.
What were his parents thinking ?!?!
Maybe his parents were thinking he’d get a lot of chicks this way.
I already posted this in the wrong thread, but what the heck — I’ll risk the overkill.
Happy July 6, everybody! “Spirit of 7/6”!!!
7-6 is is said aloud as “Seven to Six” which sounds like “Seventy-six.” “Spirit of Seventy-Six” is a book about the American Revolution.
As we say over at Zug.com, I’ve killed teh funny.
Thank you very much. You are a very considerate person. To hëll with anybody who thinks you’ve killed “teh funnie”.