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Winning headlines

January 13, 2019 by jimmycsays

Since the 1990s, when Dinn Mann became sports editor (he went on to run Major League Baseball’s website), The Star has been known for its witty, double-entendre sports headlines.

During the last dozen years of the newspaper industry’s (and The Star’s) downward spiral, that has been one aspect of the paper that has not ebbed.

After yesterday’s huge Chiefs’ win, I was looking forward to seeing today’s print edition (that’s the only way you get the full effect) to see what sports editor Jeff Rosen and his team would come up with.

They did not disappoint.

For those of you who don’t get the print edition, or are out of town, or couldn’t fish the paper out of the snow drifts, here are the headlines from yesterday’s memorable win over the Indianapolis Colts.

Congratulations to The Star and especially the sports department. These headlines were among the best ever…

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  1. on January 13, 2019 at 10:40 am Tom Shrout

    Jim I violated my no pro football pledge that I took at your urging to watch the Chiefs. They did not disappoint. Now let’s see if the Star gets any blow back about headline #2.


    • on January 13, 2019 at 12:18 pm jimmycsays

      Tom, I have to confess, I broke my vow, too…Hard to stay away from a game and player (Mahomes) like that.

      I applaud their guts on headline No. 2. I would love to know how far up the chain of command they went for approvals. Certainly, Mike Fannin, editor and former sports editor, gave the green light, and I’ll bet they even ran it by Publisher Tony Berg. Bravo!


  2. on January 13, 2019 at 12:35 pm Marcie Blakeney

    Oh snow good!! Luck wasn’t a factor…. Literally!!😂😱


    • on January 13, 2019 at 1:49 pm jimmycsays

      You should have been a copy editor, Marcie. Two excellent puns there!

      (Your fine son Mike pulled out of the driveway five minutes ago; he and Oliver went out to the stadium yesterday, got free tickets and had a great time.)


  3. on January 13, 2019 at 3:08 pm robert braun

    Love the headline. Too bad I didn’t get to see it; haven’t received a paper since Friday.


  4. on January 13, 2019 at 3:32 pm Kurt

    Both headlines were submitted by Twitter users. Credit goes to Mack Molloy (Winter Wonderland) and Tom Platts (About Lucking Time).

    About lucking time!

    — Tom Platts (@tomplatts1) January 13, 2019

    Winter “Won”derland

    — Mack Molloy (@MackMolloy) January 13, 2019


    • on January 13, 2019 at 4:03 pm jimmycsays

      Thanks, Kurt…Not being on Twitter, I had no idea they solicited headline suggestions. Great idea. And congratulations to Tom Platts and Mack Molloy.


  5. on January 13, 2019 at 9:25 pm Allison Long

    Loved “About Lucking Time.” Clever and funny!


  6. on January 14, 2019 at 9:03 am Bob Hallinan

    Personally, I was hoping for “The Luck Stops Here”


    • on January 14, 2019 at 9:11 am jimmycsays

      That’s a good one, Bob, but the beauty of “About lucking time” is it captures Chiefs’ fans 25 years of frustration.


  7. on January 14, 2019 at 9:21 am Mike

    Don’t like “about lucking time.” KInd of like a Robin Williams routine—throw in enough clever allusions rapidly and it obscures the fact that it oesn’t make any sense. The parts are clever, (and “lucking” is naughty in a locker room macho way ) but they don’t add up to an effective whole. If I hadn’t seen the game, I would think the headline meant that Andrew Luck played some pivotal part in the game. He was a non-factor.



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