worst leads you have seen

I'd have two words that editor.

 

Bill Simmons is covering preps now? Who knew?

 

On a story about a former baseball player signing autographs at a baseball card show:

It was in the cards.

Literally.

 

Sorry to disappoint. These are five different writers.

 

A guy at my former shop used this one last year:

"It may be one of the most overused phrases in sports, but Friday night's game in Psychoville truly was a tale of two halves."

Hmmm. It's already overused ... so let's use it again!

 

Although it's been said, many times many ways, here's a cliche lede, to youuuuuuu.

 

Hate to bump, but I was in an airport today making a connection and picked up Big City paper. In the NFL section on the local team, the second graf of the GAMER (not a column, mind you) included the following phrase "the (team name) defense and special teams ought to be ashamed."

Hey, we've all written crap ledes (I had two this weekend alone) but I don't know what mystifies me more, the sentence or the fact the editors let it through.

Now, back to my own mediocre lede for today's story, already in progress...