July 04, 2006

Possible Sports Headline?

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

Posted by Peter David at July 4, 2006 11:04 PM | TrackBack | Other blogs commenting
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Posted by: Kurt at July 4, 2006 11:07 PM

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.

Posted by: TallestFanEver at July 5, 2006 03:09 AM

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...

Posted by: Stephen Soymonoff at July 5, 2006 03:15 AM

They will now :-)

Posted by: Emeraldax at July 5, 2006 07:57 AM

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.

Posted by: Adam Lipkin at July 5, 2006 11:44 AM

I liked the Daily News take on things, honoring the great slide that decided the game: Endypendence Day

Posted by: Sasha at July 5, 2006 12:32 PM

I'm surprised you didn't comment on the hammering the Yankees received on George Steinbrenner's birthday.

Posted by: Ali T. Kokmen at July 5, 2006 01:29 PM

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

Posted by: TallestFanEver at July 5, 2006 02:22 PM

Still clueless over here, yo.

Posted by: Emeraldax at July 5, 2006 03:10 PM

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.

Posted by: Spookymizu at July 5, 2006 07:05 PM

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 Jacks Off To A Good Start

Ahem.
I don't write 'em; I just report 'em.

Spooky Mizu

Posted by: Barrett Esposito at July 5, 2006 07:39 PM

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.

Posted by: shed at July 6, 2006 11:58 AM

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 ?!?!

Posted by: Emeraldax at July 6, 2006 12:20 PM

Maybe his parents were thinking he'd get a lot of chicks this way.

Posted by: Jason Powell at July 6, 2006 04:32 PM

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"!!!

Posted by: TallestFanEver at July 7, 2006 04:17 AM

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 hell with anybody who thinks you've killed "teh funnie".