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Could you be more clueless than this person?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by SF_Express, Jun 13, 2010.

  1. cyclingwriter

    cyclingwriter Active Member

    I was going to drop Marty Balin in there, but realized his line was "If only you would believe in miracles."
     
  2. Brian

    Brian Well-Known Member

    E. Gordon Gee also believes it is one of America's great victories. Along with Korea and the 2003 President's Cup.
     
  3. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    If someone says "Do you believe in miracles?" or some variation in the closing moments of a big upset, then yeah, they are almost certainly making a reference.

    I don't see any reason to assume a headline involving an underdog tying being a "win" is a reference.
     
  4. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    It's not. You missed the point.

    The guys at Harvard did only one thing noteworthy: They PRINTED something that others only thought of.

    Even today many are uncomfortable with the idea ("Only the Post could get away with it . . . "). It's easy to take the position that it's a "win", but not so easy to actually write a head that will get approved.

    I have seen lots of ties and moral victories . . . but "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29" is the only headline I remember reading about.

    NY Post did not necessarily reference that old head (although maybe the writer was aware of it). But it doesn't really matter.
     
  5. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    No doubt -- but it remains the most notable sporting example of such
    usage in the lexicon of the Lower 48.
     
  6. SF_Express

    SF_Express Active Member

    This thread became pretty interesting ... but at least most of us agree that Glynnis didn't have the slightest clue.
     
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  8. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Whew. I was afraid that would be a video of me.
     
  9. finishthehat

    finishthehat Active Member

    In order to add nothing to the discussion, I note that Tommy Lee Jones played in that 29-29 game.
     
  10. printdust

    printdust New Member

    I think it's great. I love the Post.
     
  11. printdust

    printdust New Member

    There's not too many newspapers in America that you go to to see what headline they come up with outside of this one. That's not clueless.
     
  12. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    It still applies, because that's the first thing I thought of too. :)
     
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