retire this headline (a running thread)

[HoopsMcCann]

just saw the 'SECond to None' headline on ESPN.com

can we retire this headline? i'm sure all of us, myself included, that have worked at a paper in sec country have used it. but really, it's not clever. it's become a cliche.

please add your own to this thread...

 

[fishwrapper]

 

[Chi City 81]

This could be the start of something big

(There's a paper in my former neck of the woods that would use this at least twice a year)

 

[John]

Anything with "brass balls" should be retired.

Though you'd think that would be a given. Sadly, no.

 

[Some Guy]

There's no way that "Roasted Nuts" hed is legit. Right? I mean, nobody is that stupid. Please say nobody is that stupid.

 

[da man]

That hed is legendary, along with ``Headless Body in Topless Bar''

 

[TheMethod]

"Chief concern"
--If you really want it to, this could probably be used for every single Kansas City Chiefs story ever written. ESPN's fantasy site had this yesterday, belly-aching about Larry Johnson's lack of production.

"Special teams not so special"
--Hyuck, hyuck, hyuck.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

just saw the 'SECond to None' headline on ESPN.com

can we retire this headline? i'm sure all of us, myself included, that have worked at a paper in sec country have used it. but really, it's not clever. it's become a cliche.

I SECond that.

 

[Omar_dont_scare]

I don't consider it an official sports year until I have Bucs or Pirates shivering someone's timbers.

 

[Jeremy Goodwin]

"Not in the Cards" when a team named the Cardinals lose a close game.

 

[fishwrapper]

Another Trentonian classic:

 

[fishwrapper]

And, the aforementioned:

 

[fishwrapper]

Before its time:
(I have a quite a few of these I've kept over the years)

 

[fishwrapper]

Let's see you work "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" into a headline play:

 

[Jeremy Goodwin]

Let's see you work "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" into a headline play:

"Hey, fishwrapper, would you mind bumping the head size down a few points. I have a great headline, but it's just a few letters long"

 

[HejiraHenry]

What, me worry?

(Mad magazine shoutout.)

 

[fishwrapper]

Spell check?

 

[Songbird]

Let's see you work "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" into a headline play:

That is fantastic ****.

 

[Dan Rydell]

A couple from previous stops:


Ugly or not, Osceola girls will take victory


Lakers beat off Warriors

 

[Songbird]

Cocks stick it to Beavers, and every other combo of USC, South Carolina and Oregon State heds every thought of, and used.