Gamers that never ran: College Football Playoff edition

[MeanGreenATO]

WaPo gathered a few ledes/half-columns that were scrapped during the crazy CFP title game. The concept behind the post is a really great piece of content and something y'all made find interesting.

This is the story of Georgia's national title win over Alabama. You read that right.

 

[Steak Snabler]

NYT said it would have been 27 years since Georgia's last title. It would have been 37.

Hope the desk would have caught that.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Did they print them in their Ghana edition?

 

[da man]

NYT said it would have been 27 years since Georgia's last title. It would have been 37.

Hope the desk would have caught that.

Also spelled Warner Robins wrong.

 

[da man]

And AP said Warner Robins is about an hour south of Atlanta. That's true -- if you're driving 100 mph or so.

 

[playthrough]

Call me crazy, but would you copy edit these "scrapped" stories? Kinda lends a bit of authenticity, no? Lord knows all of my tight-deadline gamers weren't flawless. But I'd include a note somehow that these were raw and potentially, well, wrong.

 

[reformedhack]

That's a great story idea. I would love to know how it was arranged -- I assume in the press box -- without getting a brushoff from the writers on deadline.

And then -- because I'm a management weenie -- I wonder how the other news organizations feel about seeing their people's unpublished work product appearing in another news outlet. (For me, it would be OK, for two reasons -- it gets our name out there, and it helps humanize our business -- but I admit I would ruminate over how it could come back to bite my organization.)

 

[da man]

That's a great story idea. I would love to know how it was arranged -- I assume in the press box -- without getting a brushoff from the writers on deadline.

And then -- because I'm a management weenie -- I wonder how the other news organizations feel about seeing their people's unpublished work product appearing in another news outlet. (For me, it would be OK, for two reasons -- it gets our name out there, and it helps humanize our business -- but I admit I would ruminate over how it could come back to bite my organization.)

I'm amazed those guys kept the unused ledes around. I always delete that stuff as soon as it becomes invalid out of fear I'll file the wrong thing.

 

[reformedhack]

I'm amazed those guys kept the unused ledes around. I always delete that stuff as soon as it becomes invalid out of fear I'll file the wrong thing.

That thought crossed my mind, too.

 

[ChrisLong]

I'm amazed those guys kept the unused ledes around. I always delete that stuff as soon as it becomes invalid out of fear I'll file the wrong thing.

Send them to Orlando for their special National Champions section.

 

[Donny in his element]

Did they print them in their Ghana edition?

 

[User 149557]

Now that we can print ****hole, they should include all the expletives the writers muttered, too.

 

[Doc Holliday]

At first I thought this was a great idea and would be interesting. Then I realized this was a story about sports writers and it's boring as ****.