Tag: New York City tabloids

‘A Cutlet Above’: NYC tabloids have a field day with Tommy DeVito’s Giants win

Some great tabloid back pages here.

Tommy DeVito won a third game (!) for the New York Giants this season, coming out of nowhere (to be fair, he did play for Illinois! That’s not nowhere!) to give the franchise some hope after Daniel Jones went down with a season-ending injury.

You know what that means. Time to see how the New York tabloids handled the man known as Tommy Cutlets with their back covers!

The New York Post had “A Cutlet Above.” The Daily News had “Dandy DeVito,” while Newsday went with “Tommy Terrific.”

I think the Post wins this round, but those are some great back pages right there:

New York tabloids, Washington newspaper have a field day with talk of Eagles tanking

LOL.

The Philadelphia Eagles deciding to put in Nate Sudfeld at quarterback on Sunday has led to accusations of tanking (although, with nothing to play for but draft position, could you blame Doug Pederson if that was the case?).

Thanks in part to that decision, Washington Football Team won the Week 17 game on Sunday night and will head to the playoffs instead of the New York Giants — whose players were angry on social media watching the whole thing unfold — and of course that means the New York tabloids had to come up with some good covers. But there was also a terrific headline in Washington.

Let’s start there with the Post’s sports cover:

Nice. Over to the New York Post:

“Flipped the bird.” Very nice.

Over to the New York Daily News:

I like the use of the Wayne Gallman fumble there.

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New York tabloids had a field day with Jets’ first win (and possibly losing Trevor Lawrence)

What a Sunday in New York.

The New York Jets were in the driver’s seat for the No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft and the chance to take stud Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence.

But they somehow went on the road to visit the Los Angeles Rams and WON. It was a nightmare for Jets fans, although if they end up with Ohio State’s Justin Fields, it’s not the worst consolation prize.

But of course the New York tabloids — as they always do —  had to cover the potential loss of Lawrence with their punny back covers.

Let’s start with the New York Post, which did a play on the name of Lawrence Welk the bandleader and TV host. I’m not sure how many younger people would get that, but it’s a decent pun once you get it:

I like the Daily News back cover, with a play on a Christmas classic:

Sorry, Jets fans.

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1 tabloid back page chillingly sums up all the sports cancellations due to coronavirus

“The day the sports world stopped.”

The NBA. Major League Baseball. The NHL. The NCAA tournament. The PGA Tour. MLS. Champions League. Premier League.

They’re all either suspended, postponed or canceled, and as my colleague Andy Nesbitt put it so succinctly, this sucks.

March 12, 2020 is a day in sports we’ll never forget, and that’s what the New York Post’s back page focused on: “The day the sports world stopped,” which pretty much sums it all up in one phrase.

There’s also a subtle change to their usual back cover — Normally, “The best sports in town” is splashed across the top, but now it’s “no more sports in town.”

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