NFL Wild Card Weekend -- Nazareth, live from Philadelphia

[Spartan Squad]

Edit: That wasn't a bad QB play that was a great hug. Refs let them play

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Edit: That wasn't a bad QB play that was a great hug. Refs let them play

Refs missed a foul

 

[Spartan Squad]

And it's all erased and Commies are bailed out

 

[Spartan Squad]

Refs missed a foul

That was my nice way of saying that was a really bad miss by the refs

 

[dixiehack]

Tirico with a pregnant pause before landing on "mess up."

 

[Deskgrunt50]

What a fun game.

 

[DanOregon]

Glad we finally have a game this weekend.

 

[dixiehack]

Fortune favors the bold but that was mighty risky. And the blocking almost let them down again.

 

[HanSenSE]

Had a know-it-all news desker who would regularly ask us for photos and text for 1A skyboxes from Super Bowls, World Series and other big games, typically right at 4 or 5 p.m., before the games even started.

On football Fridays, since the front shipped before sports, I'd give pagination a few generic words for the skybox before leaving, something like "'Pups take on Miners." But when it came down to the Section finals one year, they hoped to get a result on the front, so they asked if I could do the skybox around 9 (or, roughly early in the third quarter) with the instructions "if it looks like the game is in hand, do that."

At 9, I just sent generic words. No way I was risking anything. Then told the story to another reporter and we both had a good laugh.

 

[I Should Coco]

A copy desk chief wanted to reverse the cutout photo of Georgia's quarterback for the 1A tease so it would work better with her page design. We had to point out readers were likely to question the backwards G on the helmet.

"But he's looking off the page!"

Some of the stuff we used to worry about seems rather quaint/silly as print editions circle the drain in 2025.

 

[dixiehack]

At some point it may occur to the Commandskins they aren't getting anything else from the running backs tonight.

 

[QYFW]

Commanders bootleg here, Daniels can probably walk in for the winning score.