Print may be dead, but that isn't stopping us from combing through the Newseum's archive of front pages to find the five best featuring Super Bowl XLV.
5. Fort Worth Star-Telegram -- Fort Worth, Texas.
I'd like to think a photo editor combed through hundreds of photographs to find the best one of Aaron Rodgers looking like he's 6 years old and smiling for his dad's camera at Disney World.
4. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- Milwaukee, Wisc.
Clay Matthews does a mean Miss Elizabeth impersonation. The Titletown reference is great, but I particularly love the fact that Aaron Rodgers looks a little suspicious with that hat pulled down over his eyes and an unidentified object in his right hand. "I've won," he seems to be saying, "now watch out."
3. Buenos Aires Herald -- Buenos Aires, Argentina
Just a reminder that nobody outside North America cares too much about our biggest sporting event. The Super Bowl isn't a worldwide spectacle like the World Cup or Olympics.
As far as I could tell from the Newseum's collection of Monday's front pages, every major newspaper in the United States mentioned the words "Super Bowl" on the cover. (Even the Wall Street Journal ran an above-the-fold picture of the game.) Internationally? Bupkis.
2. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- Pittsburgh, Pa.
The fantastic picture of Hines Ward trudging off the field, shoulders slumped, makes up for the headline. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for Warren Beatty puns in headlines, I just doubt the Post-Gazette would have stuck to that theme and gone with "Splendor on the grass" if the Steelers had won. Because you totally know they were running "Seventh heaven" in case of a win.
1. La Crosse Tribune -- La Crosse, Wisc.
A banner headline both factually correct and slyly alluding to Brett Favre. Bravo. I'd like to think it's a dig at ol' No. 4, but judging by the amount of Favre Packers jerseys I saw in the stands on Sunday night, that's no guarantee.
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