Fox got off to a fine start on what will presumably be an entire season of hating on Jay Cutler:
Announcer Daryl Johnston told viewers that “these are the actual headlines from the local papers in Chicago”; the Tribune sports staff didn’t buy it and started an investigation.
We searched throughout Illinois newspapers for those headlines — Tribune, Sun-Times, Daily Herald, every other paper in the state. What did we find?
Nothing.
In fact, we could not find any such headlines in any newspaper in the United States.
So, we called Fox to get an explanation.
“The wrong word was used,” said Dan Bell, Fox Sports spokesman. “Our attempt was to capture the overall sentiment nationwide following that game.”
