“Chicago Woman Wins Olympic Gold Sharpshooting Medal” is just as evocative, if not more so. The fact that she is from Chicago, used a gun in a positive way, and won one of the first gold medals of the games is news. That she’s married to a journeyman football player is not.
I am a huge football fan, and watch at least two if not three games every week and read articles about it. Yet the players I can name are the stars, not a defensive lineman who played for four teams in five years. Believe me, the players are in heavy pads and wear helmets so they are largely anonymous unless they’re in advertising or get interviewed after a game, and defensive lineman don’t get interviewed after a game. Nobody knows who they are.
Your point would also have more merit if they had used the NFL player’s name in the post, instead of calling him “Chicago Bears lineman.” That, too, points to the anonymity of defensive linemen.
