Super Bowl XLII headlines

We had "One Giant loss," plus two sidebars. One of them had a two-deck headlines of "Manning up once again" to play off our "Manning up" headline from last year.

 

We used "Previously Perfect"

 

I put up "Past Perfect" as a cover hed, but it didn't take. It was pretty tense for a while.

 

We used One Giant upset ... and I basically re-wrote the AP lead and sprinkled in some other quotes and descriptions from other FAP wire stories.

 

IJAG has a lot of groins to kick.

 

I didn't read this until today. I would have felt like I'd stolen something.

Went with:

18 and done

 

Seriously, foaf.

I wonder how CI's kid will like having a daddy that talks like mommy.

 

One small step for Manning, one Giant leap

 

Screened across the top of a photo of Manning ... UnbElievable

 

Pats, Belichick D-nied
MVP Manning leads Giants to upset victory

Would have been fun to come up with a clever headline with this concept.

Anyone care to try?

 

I'm no big fan of Giant Upset, but it's better than forcing an esoteric hed for the sake of being original. Readers don't give a shit if the Piss River Register 200 miles away used the same hed. I would like to have come up with something better for our main front, but nothing was sticking.

We did use New York Minute on the sports front, which isn't quite as obvious.