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Paul Graham
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Posted: 10/23/2013 6:39 PM
Football: Redshirt Quarterback breaks his own record

Ummm...sorta weird.


thepost.ohiou.edu/content/football-redshirt-quarterback-breaks-his-own-record
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Posted: 10/23/2013 6:55 PM
Paul Graham wrote:expand_more
Football: Redshirt Quarterback breaks his own record

Ummm...sorta weird.


thepost.ohiou.edu/content/football-redshirt-quarterback-breaks-his-own-record

Because "Tettleton has career day at Eastern Michigan" made too much sense.


 
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Posted: 10/23/2013 7:01 PM
circa 1950s

In the fall of 1973 as a freshman on the first day of classes I was walking on the south side of West Union near Fritsch's when I spotted the legend, Bob Wren, across the street near the Sundry.  Having never met the man, I decided to introduce myself and we started a delightful conversation.  He asked where I was from and when I said Medina, he said, "I know your coach very well, Bob Peters was one of the great players during the 1950's here at OHIO and was a star on the team." Coach Wren then told me my Coach Peters was injured slightly for a game and the newspaper carried the headline:" Bobcats to play Marietta with Peters out."  Neat first day of classes

I guess that is a somewhat bizarre headline too!
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Posted: 10/23/2013 8:12 PM
MonroeClassmate wrote:expand_more
circa 1950s

In the fall of 1973 as a freshman on the first day of classes I was walking on the south side of West Union near Fritsch's when I spotted the legend, Bob Wren, across the street near the Sundry.  Having never met the man, I decided to introduce myself and we started a delightful conversation.  He asked where I was from and when I said Medina, he said, "I know your coach very well, Bob Peters was one of the great players during the 1950's here at OHIO and was a star on the team." Coach Wren then told me my Coach Peters was injured slightly for a game and the newspaper carried the headline:" Bobcats to play Marietta with Peters out."  Neat first day of classes

I guess that is a somewhat bizarre headline too!


I was in Chicago back in the '60s and South Siders had a pitcher named Peters.  He was taken out of the game late and a reliever came in and saved the game.  One of the Chicago papers the next day ran the headline: "Sox win with Peters out."  Most have been something in the air in the '60s.  No way either paper didn't know the double entendre in these headlines.  
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Posted: 10/23/2013 9:13 PM
My all-time favorite headline:



 
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Posted: 10/24/2013 12:33 AM
Beau up the middle?
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Posted: 10/24/2013 3:42 AM
Silly Bobcats. I do love the frisch's big boy and the Campus Sundry reference - worked at the Sundry for a couple years. It's gone now, I'm told.
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Posted: 10/24/2013 8:57 AM
To maintain the BA image of erudite conversation....

I am confused why the writer or editor or stylebook insists on using the word "redshirt" to describe academic class. I'm not sure there is value in the reader processing what a redshirt is in the context of the story. I'd go so far as to argue that specifying academic class on first reference is extra verbiage that obscures the story the writer tries to tell.

In today's article about "Gang Green", there is no first-reference specification of academic class, and I'm not going to spend any time looking for a first-reference specification of a fifth-year senior. In the picture captions, none of the hockey fans are identified by academic class, but the basketball fan is.

I find it inconsistent, and would urge The Post to work toward a common style.

Also, a quote from a second-year freshman someday would be spectacular. The kid's parents would be so proud.
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Posted: 10/24/2013 9:02 AM
Sony7 wrote:expand_more
Silly Bobcats. I do love the frisch's big boy and the Campus Sundry reference - worked at the Sundry for a couple years. It's gone now, I'm told.


Yeah, he died - either in fall 2011 or in the first half of 2012.
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Posted: 10/24/2013 10:05 AM
Pete Chouteau wrote:expand_more
To maintain the BA image of erudite conversation....

I am confused why the writer or editor or stylebook insists on using the word "redshirt" to describe academic class. I'm not sure there is value in the reader processing what a redshirt is in the context of the story. I'd go so far as to argue that specifying academic class on first reference is extra verbiage that obscures the story the writer tries to tell.

In today's article about "Gang Green", there is no first-reference specification of academic class, and I'm not going to spend any time looking for a first-reference specification of a fifth-year senior. In the picture captions, none of the hockey fans are identified by academic class, but the basketball fan is.

I find it inconsistent, and would urge The Post to work toward a common style.

Also, a quote from a second-year freshman someday would be spectacular. The kid's parents would be so proud.

I'm confused by the word "erudite".

 
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