Biggest headline fails?

That's awful!

 

Had another paper in our area with an MLB preview breakout with '30 Point Headline' as the headline.

 

My first sports editor always hung his head in shame when talking about his worst headline

"Trojans win rubber match"

The weekly papers always have some doozies. Here are a couple from the Hall of Shame

"Boys have new coach excited"
"Crappie fishermen have bad weekend"

And while this next one isn't really bad, it caused a major shit storm:
"Orioles gun down Indians"

 

"Women's soccer looking to fill holes"

 

Ran a story (can't remember if I wrote the headline or someone else) on a story about a football player, last name Johnson, who was undersized for his position. Headline was "Ruler can't measure Johnson's impact."

Also, in college, when they were releasing the remake of Godzilla, which had the tagline "Size does matter", I was trying to be clever on a headline. The OU women's basketball team, for a change, was going to have a size advantage against a team. So, I wrote the headline, "Size does matter for OU women." Fortunately, that got caught before it made print.

 

Several through the years:

"Caps grab Peeters" (Goalie Pete Peeters traded from Philadelphia. That was mine.)

"Palmyra girls roll; Hershey boys on top"

"Jap wins marathon"

"Ganter considers Michigan State head job"

 

I saved one the other night. Story was about a baseball player doing well as the second batter in the order.
"(Player) having success at No. 2"
I asked the rimmer if it was due to FiberCon or Metamusil?

 

And then of course the classic on a former Penn State linebacker who had moved to the outside linebacker spot one year: "Conner Shits Outside"

 

This has been mentioned on several threads here before, but the Houma (La.) Gazette ran the following headline back in the Jim Crow era:

"Waterproof Negro Drowns"

(Waterproof is a town on the Mississippi River)