Your Ad Here beat me to the one I had in mind.
erm, isn’t it because Harvard beat Yale by getting the same score? How does that work?
I don’t follow sport at all, so I might be missing something obvious here.
Though a satirical newspaper and coming out more than two weeks after 9/11, I always thought that The Onion had the best headline about it. Most of the newspapers here in the US, after all, went with something reminiscent of the headlines after Pearl Harbor.
After looking at the archives, I guess it wasn’t a headline but their “Attack on America” icon that I was thinking of, the one that said “Holy fucking shit.” That right there could have been the perfect headline by itself.
Here is an article from the Harvard alumni magazine in which the author attempts to find the person who wrote the headline, which appeared in the Harvard Crimson. The article notes that “somebody at the Crimson, with only one little word, had brilliantly captured the essence of the Harvard football team’s legendary comeback (16 points in the final 42 seconds) to tie Yale in November 1968.”
One of the most misquoted lines ever.
It’s really Sticks Nix Hick Pix.
Everybody wants to make each word end in an “x” but it wasn’t written that way.
Excellent. Thanks. Great story.
Which reminds me of a gag headline from the Bob Clampett cartoon Draftee Daffy:
SURPRISE FRONTAL ASSAULT ON ENEMY REAR
This is one of my favorites: from the NY Daily News when Newt Gingrich threw a fit based on where he was permitted to sit in Air Force One.
Here’s the CNN story.
That “Cry Baby” cover reminds me of another famous News cover cartoon when the Dodgers finally won a World Series: a drawing of a rather pathetic-looking fellow with the caption “WHO’S A BUM!”
Parents Watch In Horror As 18 Month Old Child Pulls 300 Yards Of Multi-colored String From Eye.
I like the sidebar on that issue:
“Massive Attack on Pentagon. Page 14”
Fargin’ War!
ya bastidges…
Who printed that headline, and when?
It’s a newspaper headline from the movie Johnny Dangerously. It’s how one of the characters used incorrect swear words.
Fargin’ iceholes!
Crisis - what crisis?
(Have non-Brits heard of this one?) link
I gotta know the backstory on that one.