57 Responses to "12 Unintentionally Funny Sports Headlines"
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There was a good high school one quite a few years ago from the Topeka Capital-Journal. I think it was for a basketball game between the Topeka High Trojans and the Seaman Vikings (also a Topeka school):
TROJANS HOLD BACK SEAMAN
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Some are intentional, and some aren’t. My best friend wrote a headline for a neighborhood weekly in Tampa about an employee at a Boys & Girls Club being promoted to the director. She was mortified when it was published: Yuengling Gets Head Job. Even funnier (now we look back on it) was that the guy’s fiancee worked at another Boys & Girls Club in a neighboring community, and their friends were faxing her that headline. Luckily, both were really good about it. Headline writers are funny bunch … they’re always looking for a play on words. And good editors have to have dirty minds, because they have to think of innuendos, even when they’re unintentional.
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my favorite:
Seminoles to face Gators with Peters out -
I wonder if Paul Ulane knows the Fridge.
Gotta go!
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paul has SARS.
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Holy Taco Batman, that is insane!
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‘colon, smelling like a rose” is probably the best one. HAHAHAh i cant believe that you didn’t find the Satan (guy that playes for the Pittsburgh penguins) “Team play doesn’t fit with Satan.) anyways looking for sinners for Vegas. Can you do it?
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unintentional? as almost anyone who has worked in a newsroom will attest, one of the great games is trying to get these headlines past the sub-editors.
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a few years back during a Bruins/Sabres series there was an article in the Boston Globe with the headline “Buffalo’s Peca is Huge”
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Keegan fills Schmeichel’s gap with Seaman (from Sky News)
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I saw one years ago and I still have the paper. “Jordan pulls Bulls by Nugets”
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@Steve… that’s what she said!
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ESPN.com had a headline about Chen Ming Wang and Randy Johnson being available to relieve in a Yankees NLDS game, it read “Wang, Johnson Available in Bullpen”
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a couple months ago at goal.com:
“Old lady unable to master BATE at home” -
These are great. Writers should come up with better jobs.
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Once saw a headline from a junior college newspaper that said “Ladies struggle with Beavers” as the oposing teams mascot was the Beaver.
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From the Sun Sentinal “Titans Brown Eyeing Dolphins”
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There was this on ESPN Soccernet website long ago, when Dick Avocaat was the manager of the Netherlands soccer team. He dropped Ruud Van Nistelrooy, who was at that time a top striker plying his trade with Manchester United. However, he was injured and lost form for a while which saw him dropped from the National Team.
When the National Team was under-performing and failing to score goals, journalist were quick to question Dick Avocaat’s decision to drop their top striker. The manager however was firm and insistent on his decision to leave Ruud out of the team.
Next day’s headline? “Dick stands firm on Ruud”.
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This is my favorite from when John David Booty was playing for USC and they lost to Oregon State:
“Beavers Squeeze Trojans, Booty Gives It Away”
There were many good headlines about that game, and USC/OSU in general.
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Not a newspaper headline, but my favorite involving Randy Johnson was on a radio commercial. It began, “The summers in Phoenix are long and hot…and so is the Big Unit.”
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For the Amherst College women’s field hockey headline, I once saw “Amherst Masters Bates” when they beat Bates college
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“Angels’ Colon absorbs another pounding” from the June 27, 2004, Orange County Register (go ahead, google it) is another classic.
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Don’t be Buzz Killington.
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Unintentional??!! Suuuuurreee!! Guaranteed, the writers of these headlines had quite a smirk on their faces when writing these up.
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I wish I had the photo from it still, but I live in Atlanta and in the Atlanta Journal They posted a headline in the sports section about Georgia Tech’s new head football coach Paul Johnson. It was titled “Johnson Comes Out Swinging”. Classic.
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The Colon jokes would be funny if that was how his last name was actually pronounced.. there’s supposed to be an accent over the second O making the correct pronunciation cologne
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The Toronto Star ran a headline a few years ago when center Mamadou N’Diaye played for the Raptors that read “Nobody blocks shots quite like your Mamadou”
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someone put up a sign that said “It’ll take more than 25 Yanks to beat our Johnson”.
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like it may I suggest you take it up with the creator of the internet, Al Gore.
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If you don’t like it may I suggest you take it up with the creator of the internet, Al Gore.Randy Johnson. A lot of people starred at me because I thought it was so damn funny.
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WOW! I almost fell up laughing. I also crapped my fabric tablecloth.
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My favorite one EVER was from the Daily Mississippian, which is the student newspaper at Ole Miss. It was after the Ole Miss-South Carolina football game in 1999 or 2000: “Rebels Beat Cocks.”
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From the world of soccer, nothing beats “Keegan fills Schmeichel’s gap with Seaman”.
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You should of gotten the one that said “Condom trucks tips over, spills load”
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the title of the article was Sports headlines, unless i’ve never seen that one, that’s not a sports headline
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I saw a New paper that had the headline, “Measuring the Big Unit” in reference to Randy Johnson. A lot of people starred at me because I thought it was so damn funny.
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*newspaper
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I doubt any were “unintentional”.
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Nascar.com once had a headline “Newman Beats Johnson for Bud Pole”
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My favorite is any headline that has had Slovak Miroslav Satan in it, such as “Sabres upset Devils thanks to Satan”.
[and yes, it is not pronounced the same as 'Satan', but these are funny to read, not to say....]
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that is the funniest crap I’ve read in a long time
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Yeah, it couldn’t have been a nickname given to him at another time, right?
I mean, these are ballplayers. There’s NO WAY they would come up with something like that and then it might stick…
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LMFAO
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Somebody named their kid Rusty Kuntz on purpose? What other names were they considering: Harry, Randy, Dusty, Lucky, and Gabby or Minnie if it’s a girl?
Here’s a tip for parents: if your last name is Kuntz, Dick, Johnson, Wang, etc, DON’T NAME YOUR KID AN ADJECTIVE.
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NONE OF YOURS ARE AS FUNNY AS THE ORIGINAL ONES IN THIS ARTICLE…WRITE YOUR OWN ARTICLE IF YOUR SO UNGRATEFUL FOR THIS ONE PEOPLE
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It’s called banter that came from a story and is the exact reason comments exist. If you don’t like it may I suggest you take it up with the creator of the internet, Al Gore.
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Not a headline, but years ago when Randy Johnson was with the Mariners, during a series in the Kingdome against the Yankees, someone put up a sign that said “It’ll take more than 25 Yanks to beat our Johnson”.
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from now on, when I’m unhappy, I’ll just say Dick Trickle 3 times and click my heels together.
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Houston Nutt inspired so many great headlines, but when Arkansas had two quarterbacks named Casey Dick and Robert Johnson it was really too much. I think the all-time great was “Nutt Pulls Johnson, Inserts Dick”.
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Here’s one from Spain from a few months ago:
Milan da a Kaka permiso para negociar su salida.
Translation:
Milan gives Kaka permission to negotiate his departure. -
hahahahahahhaah rusty kuntz.
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theres gotta be a healine about about Wang vs Bush when david bush pitched for the Blue jays. and on that note, do they ever use BJ’s as a short for Blue jays? that would lead to alot of good headlines. Also there gotta be more about Wang with the Yanks, as in “yank’s wang beat up in 2nd” or “Torre yanks wang in 2nd”
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Some of those are funny, the Wood one was a stretch.
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back a few yrs ago,the headline in a NY paper had to do with a hockey goalie coming back from a lengthy injury
“Rangers to test Peeters for rust” -
buahahahah
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A lot of people starred at me because I thought it was so damn funny.
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There was a good high school one quite a few years ago from the Topeka Capital-Journal. I think it was for a basketball game between the Topeka High Trojans and the Seaman Vikings (also a Topeka school):
TROJANS HOLD BACK SEAMAN
Some are intentional, and some aren’t. My best friend wrote a headline for a neighborhood weekly in Tampa about an employee at a Boys & Girls Club being promoted to the director. She was mortified when it was published: Yuengling Gets Head Job. Even funnier (now we look back on it) was that the guy’s fiancee worked at another Boys & Girls Club in a neighboring community, and their friends were faxing her that headline. Luckily, both were really good about it. Headline writers are funny bunch … they’re always looking for a play on words. And good editors have to have dirty minds, because they have to think of innuendos, even when they’re unintentional.
my favorite:
Seminoles to face Gators with Peters out
I wonder if Paul Ulane knows the Fridge.
Gotta go!
paul has SARS.
Holy Taco Batman, that is insane!
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‘colon, smelling like a rose” is probably the best one. HAHAHAh i cant believe that you didn’t find the Satan (guy that playes for the Pittsburgh penguins) “Team play doesn’t fit with Satan.) anyways looking for sinners for Vegas. Can you do it?
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unintentional? as almost anyone who has worked in a newsroom will attest, one of the great games is trying to get these headlines past the sub-editors.
a few years back during a Bruins/Sabres series there was an article in the Boston Globe with the headline “Buffalo’s Peca is Huge”
Keegan fills Schmeichel’s gap with Seaman (from Sky News)
I saw one years ago and I still have the paper. “Jordan pulls Bulls by Nugets”
@Steve… that’s what she said!
ESPN.com had a headline about Chen Ming Wang and Randy Johnson being available to relieve in a Yankees NLDS game, it read “Wang, Johnson Available in Bullpen”
a couple months ago at goal.com:
“Old lady unable to master BATE at home”
These are great. Writers should come up with better jobs.
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Once saw a headline from a junior college newspaper that said “Ladies struggle with Beavers” as the oposing teams mascot was the Beaver.
From the Sun Sentinal “Titans Brown Eyeing Dolphins”
There was this on ESPN Soccernet website long ago, when Dick Avocaat was the manager of the Netherlands soccer team. He dropped Ruud Van Nistelrooy, who was at that time a top striker plying his trade with Manchester United. However, he was injured and lost form for a while which saw him dropped from the National Team.
When the National Team was under-performing and failing to score goals, journalist were quick to question Dick Avocaat’s decision to drop their top striker. The manager however was firm and insistent on his decision to leave Ruud out of the team.
Next day’s headline? “Dick stands firm on Ruud”.
This is my favorite from when John David Booty was playing for USC and they lost to Oregon State:
“Beavers Squeeze Trojans, Booty Gives It Away”
There were many good headlines about that game, and USC/OSU in general.
Not a newspaper headline, but my favorite involving Randy Johnson was on a radio commercial. It began, “The summers in Phoenix are long and hot…and so is the Big Unit.”
For the Amherst College women’s field hockey headline, I once saw “Amherst Masters Bates” when they beat Bates college
“Angels’ Colon absorbs another pounding” from the June 27, 2004, Orange County Register (go ahead, google it) is another classic.
Don’t be Buzz Killington.
Unintentional??!! Suuuuurreee!! Guaranteed, the writers of these headlines had quite a smirk on their faces when writing these up.
I wish I had the photo from it still, but I live in Atlanta and in the Atlanta Journal They posted a headline in the sports section about Georgia Tech’s new head football coach Paul Johnson. It was titled “Johnson Comes Out Swinging”. Classic.
The Colon jokes would be funny if that was how his last name was actually pronounced.. there’s supposed to be an accent over the second O making the correct pronunciation cologne
The Toronto Star ran a headline a few years ago when center Mamadou N’Diaye played for the Raptors that read “Nobody blocks shots quite like your Mamadou”
someone put up a sign that said “It’ll take more than 25 Yanks to beat our Johnson”.
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like it may I suggest you take it up with the creator of the internet, Al Gore.
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If you don’t like it may I suggest you take it up with the creator of the internet, Al Gore.Randy Johnson. A lot of people starred at me because I thought it was so damn funny.
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WOW! I almost fell up laughing. I also crapped my fabric tablecloth.
My favorite one EVER was from the Daily Mississippian, which is the student newspaper at Ole Miss. It was after the Ole Miss-South Carolina football game in 1999 or 2000: “Rebels Beat Cocks.”
From the world of soccer, nothing beats “Keegan fills Schmeichel’s gap with Seaman”.
You should of gotten the one that said “Condom trucks tips over, spills load”
the title of the article was Sports headlines, unless i’ve never seen that one, that’s not a sports headline
I saw a New paper that had the headline, “Measuring the Big Unit” in reference to Randy Johnson. A lot of people starred at me because I thought it was so damn funny.
*newspaper
I doubt any were “unintentional”.
Nascar.com once had a headline “Newman Beats Johnson for Bud Pole”
My favorite is any headline that has had Slovak Miroslav Satan in it, such as “Sabres upset Devils thanks to Satan”.
[and yes, it is not pronounced the same as 'Satan', but these are funny to read, not to say....]
that is the funniest crap I’ve read in a long time
Yeah, it couldn’t have been a nickname given to him at another time, right?
I mean, these are ballplayers. There’s NO WAY they would come up with something like that and then it might stick…
[/rolls eyes]
LMFAO
Somebody named their kid Rusty Kuntz on purpose? What other names were they considering: Harry, Randy, Dusty, Lucky, and Gabby or Minnie if it’s a girl?
Here’s a tip for parents: if your last name is Kuntz, Dick, Johnson, Wang, etc, DON’T NAME YOUR KID AN ADJECTIVE.
NONE OF YOURS ARE AS FUNNY AS THE ORIGINAL ONES IN THIS ARTICLE…WRITE YOUR OWN ARTICLE IF YOUR SO UNGRATEFUL FOR THIS ONE PEOPLE
It’s called banter that came from a story and is the exact reason comments exist. If you don’t like it may I suggest you take it up with the creator of the internet, Al Gore.
Not a headline, but years ago when Randy Johnson was with the Mariners, during a series in the Kingdome against the Yankees, someone put up a sign that said “It’ll take more than 25 Yanks to beat our Johnson”.
from now on, when I’m unhappy, I’ll just say Dick Trickle 3 times and click my heels together.
Houston Nutt inspired so many great headlines, but when Arkansas had two quarterbacks named Casey Dick and Robert Johnson it was really too much. I think the all-time great was “Nutt Pulls Johnson, Inserts Dick”.
Here’s one from Spain from a few months ago:
Milan da a Kaka permiso para negociar su salida.
Translation:
Milan gives Kaka permission to negotiate his departure.
hahahahahahhaah rusty kuntz.
theres gotta be a healine about about Wang vs Bush when david bush pitched for the Blue jays. and on that note, do they ever use BJ’s as a short for Blue jays? that would lead to alot of good headlines. Also there gotta be more about Wang with the Yanks, as in “yank’s wang beat up in 2nd” or “Torre yanks wang in 2nd”
Some of those are funny, the Wood one was a stretch.
back a few yrs ago,the headline in a NY paper had to do with a hockey goalie coming back from a lengthy injury
“Rangers to test Peeters for rust”
buahahahah
A lot of people starred at me because I thought it was so damn funny.
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the Raptors that read “Nobody blocks shots quite like your Mamadou”
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