Here's one I play with my friends, now you can too:

It's very simple. Try to guess the following morning's newspaper headlines after a game from both your local paper(s) and the opponents local paper(s).

For example, my favorite sports team is the Buffalo Sabres. Whenever they win the headlines the next morning in their opponents papers always involve 'slicing' or 'carving' or 'stabbing', and when they lose they're always called 'dull'.
"Sabres Slice Senators" or "Thrashers Dull Sabres".

So my friend and I each come up with two headlines (usually one tailored two the home paper and one to the opponent's paper). Whomever has the most matches at the end of the week wins.
Another rule is you have to alternate who gets to go first because there's often an obvious headline.

I had first crack after the Jays swept the Red Sox yesterday so my first pick was, "Thomas Lays Big Hurt on Red Sox".
His was very simple, "Jays Sweep Red Sox"
My second was, "Defensive Blunders Sink Red Sox"
He finished it off with another simple one, "Jays off to good start"

Here are the next day's headlines (Prosportsdaily.com is a great resource for looking them up):

Toronto Star: Big Hurt Delivers Huge Hit
Toronto Sun: Puttin' A Hurt On
Toronto Sun: Fun Times at the Dome
Globe and Mail: Thomas Puts The Hurt on Boston
Globe and Mail: So the Red Sox were Swept. So What?
Boston Herald: "Big Hurt" put on end of long trip
Boston Globe: Barely Animated Sox are Swept in Toronto
Boston Globe: Celebrating Halladay


Three points for me, two for him and three washes (The Big Hurt Delivers Huge hit one doesn't count for me because it wasn't a pun).

It's good, clean, family fun! Enjoy!

Labels: baseball, Buffalo Sabres, Frank Thomas, mlb, Red Sox, Roy Halladay

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