Headline Hall of Fame

I can't stop giggling. My wife is wondering what the hell is so funny.

 

I'm trying to remember if I was involved in the paper that ran that headline that day. Seriously...

 

Think it was SI that did a story in the late '70s on tennis pro Renee Richards after she came back to play following her sex-change operation. Headline was "Mixed Singles".

 

When linebacker Dan Connor was playing at Penn State, he was making a change from inside backer to outside backer. We had a headline that was supposed to read "Connor shifts outside" but the "f" in "shifts" was left out. Nobody caught it. The headline in the paper the next day ran as "Connor shits outside." Classic.

 

Hilarious. I remember Paterno saying a player with Bell's(?) Palsy had Balls Palsy.

"Julry hangs in murder trial." This one appeared on a Mississippi newspaper's Web site just Friday. Yes, jury was misspelled. Don't believe the jury was hanged, though.

 

We an older guy makeover in the morning with this one:
Bengal aide
gets head job

 

When I was at a small newspaper in So Cal one of the guys I was on high school golf team with was Lawrence Powell, one of the cops who beat Rodney King. When I mentioned that to city editor, this was the headline he wrote:

Ex-CV golf star
keeps on swinging

What I will never understand to this day was how he kept his job, especially after the managing editor told him not to run that headline and he thought it was so clever he did it anyway.

 

Ok, so not sports, but:

Precinct toilet stolen
(subhead) Cops have nothing to go on

Police raid gun shop, find weapons

Transvestite charged with male fraud

 

In today's Post:

NY family is pussy whipped

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/ny_family_is_pussy_whipped_XrcM3yehlRMSvcbiwdKcLI

 

The National Observer ran a feature on Jimmy The Greek Snyder invoking John Keats:

Odds, To A Grecian, Earn

Also, the late Dick Macke of the Cincinnati Enquirer on the Giants demoting Chili Davis to the minor leagues:

Chili Sent Out For More Seasoning

 

I liked it better the first time I saw it from them.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/regional/pussy_whipped_Ed1ilM0QcYCNuXQG6CxPHL

 

It's even better than you think.