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The New York Post Helps Prolong The Replacement Ref Controversy With A Very New York Post Front Page

Though everyone had gotten all their replacement-ref thoughts out of their system yesterday after the Monday Nightmare and sites like ours devoted nearly their entire day to talking about it? Not just yet. Those watching morning news shows today report several instances of ref-talk (indeed, we got a tip email this morning from one of those very shows, informing us of its ref-related segment), and because no controversy is complete without The New York Post weighing in with its own brand of batshit weirdness, this morning, the paper brought us this:

Really, it just makes us wonder why the Post wasn’t on this yesterday. Surely they knew of the firestorm surrounding the refs; it was already raging by the time Tuesday’s issue went to print. We shouldn’t complain, though – yesterday was Wisconsin papers’ day to channel their rage into creative news packaging. Today, the Post has the spotlight to itself. And as it usually does where weird Photoshopping is concerned, the paper delivered. Let’s hope no more huge blown calls give the paper an excuse to do something like this again.

[h/t Jimmy Traina]

Photo via Newseum

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