I gotta say, as a football fan, I was thrilled to biscuits about last night’s Super Bowl (expression for the new millennium), but as a connoisseur of forced puns, I’m somewhat disappointed with this year’s crop of Super Bowl headlines.
Let’s take a spin through 10 Super Bowl pun/jokey headlines from major publications — they’re mostly decent, but there’s a lot of overlap and nothing that screams “Super Bowl Of Awful Pun Headlines”. No “Winning Is A Brees”, no “MAN-ning, What A Bad Throw”, and not even a “Saints Misbehavin’, By Which We Mean Winning!”
1. CBS.com:
2. New York Times:
3. New York Post:
4. New York Daily News (Front):
5. New York Daily News (Back):
6. L.A. Times:
7. Chicago Sun-Times:
8. Yahoo:
9. ESPN.com (Homepage)
10. ESPN.com (NFL Page)
If I have to pick, I’ll go with ESPN’s “Party Gras,” for two simple reasons:
1) Pun does not mention the Super Bowl or the players in it.
2) Mardi gras is already a party.
For the record, surprisingly slim pickings from the Indy and New Orleans papers, at least pun-wise — most were just along the lines of “Our Prayers Have Been Answered!” or “Horayyyyy!!!” From the Indianapolis Sarcastic Gazette, I mean.
