Note: In case you’re wondering, yes, the men’s basketball team fell short against the Rochester Yellowjackets on Sunday, but considering they only lost by six points at one of the UAA’s toughest home gyms, I’m not too concerned. What’s more concerning is the women’s team falling apart in the final six minutes again in their game against Rochester, but I digress…
To me, one of the funniest thing about sports media is the headlines, which too often are better served as jokes on the bottom of a Popsicle stick. And really, I understand, because it was awfully tempting for me to write “Rochester Buzzes Past Judges” or “Judges Stung Down the Stretch” as the headlines for the two basketball games this weekend (thankfully I didn’t). That’s why my first reaction to Lawrence Tynes sending the New York Giants to the Super Bowl with a 47-yard field goal to beat the Green Bay Packers was gleeful. I had no rooting interest in the game (I’m a D.C. sports fan), but I was beyond excited to see what puns on Tynes’ name would be used by news organizations for their headlines.
So what happened? Color me disappointed. There was the New York Post’s “Third Tynes the Charm” headline (had the Giants lost, it reportedly would have been “A Tynes to Kill”), and Matt Mosley from ESPN’s Hashmarks blog came up with the wonderful “Let the Good Tynes Roll!” headline, but that was it. It was a golden opportunity wasted by so many editors across the country.
During production, the editors of the Justice came up with a list of possible puns on Tynes’ name. Here’s what we have so far. Feel free to suggest others in the comments section.
- “In the Nick of Tynes”
- “It’s About Tynes”
- “Working Over Tynes”
- “Just in Tynes”
- “Tynes is Money”
- “Right on Tynes”
- “No Tynes Like the Present”
- “Tynes of Their Lives”
- “The Dawn of Their Tynes”
- “Right on Tynes”
- “A Tynes to Celebrate”
- “A Tynes to Win”
- “Tynes to Look Ahead”
- “Tynes of Arrival”
- “Winning Tynes”
- “Good Tynes”
- “At the Right Tynes”
- “Tynes of Reckoning”
