Via NewseumI almost didn’t believe it this morning when TBD’s Ryan Kearney, rounding up the post-Super Bowl front pages of local newspapers, spotted this clunker of a subhead in the Examiner, but a short while ago I happend upon a still-full Examiner box, and there it was.
Of course, we all watched—really, it was the most-viewed television program ever—it when the New York Giants scrambled back in the game’s closing minutes to snatch the lead. Yet another fourth-quarter comeback led by Eli Manning.
Which is why the Examiner’s subhead is so upsetting. I mean, just look at it. As Kearney pointed out:
… Unless I missed his brother Peyton joining him on the field during that late TD drive, there shouldn’t be an S before the apostrophe. (I’d be remiss if I didn’t also mention that, in its typographically erroneous state, the S following the apostrophe is in direct violation of the AP Stylebook’s rule on possessives involving singular proper names ending in S.)
I only spotted one Manning on the field—the one who now owns twice as many NFL championships, natch, as his older, statistically superior, injury-hobbled, maybe-headed-to-the-Redskins brother.
Hey, I’m still trying to gloat here, Examiner. Just because a New York-based publication recently investigated your corporate overlords doesn’t mean you have to spoil the fun.
