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New York Tabloids React to Jets Playing Their Way Out of No. 1 Pick

If print is a dying medium (it’s not—subscribe to Sports Illustrated!) then tabloid newspapers are the most endangered of species. Tabloids are known for front (news) and back (sports) pages that are covered almost entirely by a photograph paired with an eye-catching, often punny headline. Most cities have more straight-faced broadsheet papers these days but tabloid journalism still lives on in a few places, most notably New York.

When a New York sports team does something notable, the city’s three tabloids (the Post, Daily News and Newsday) all try to out-do each other with their back page headlines.