USA WC headlines?

U.S. to host 1994 World Cup[/dbascopyeditor]

 

I wanna see all of the euro trash press reaction when we get the hosting gig for next time.

 

Gone-a. (Sorry, it's the best I could do.)

 

Tossed this up to my boss, who's laying out the section tonight: Star-spangled sorrow. Not sure if he changed what he had written, of even if he had the space for it.

 

Because, POO, I have faith in the innate intelligence of this group to respond or not respond without getting all kerfluffled and confused, as you apparently might have been.

 

Ghana-gain.

 

This hed would work for me....but then I don't write hedlines either.

 

Agreed.

We don't have a Sunday paper, but if we did, no wa I'd get away with "Ghana, Ghana, hey, hey, goodbye"

 

The 50-plus demographic would dig that one

 

US kicked out

Or (from A1 teaser): US goes down kicking

 

Suggested hed
Attention, America! You can now resume ignoring international soccer

Now that the US is out, what will World Cup ratings sink to here? Even the NHL will show pity.
In a year, the vast majority of American fans will have brushed the loss to Ghana into the dustbin of sports, the score, the ultimate victor, even where it was played all having faded from the collective conscience.
A win would have gone a long way toward establishing soccer's legitimacy among American sports fans. A loss to Ghana — not England, not Germany, nor Argentina or Brazil or Spain — to Ghana will lead to another round of "oh, well" and interest in American international soccer competition will go into hibernation for the next 42 months.