Newspapers and tabloids, after receiving their online counterparts, have become one of the most used types of media in the 21st century. Newspapers and especially tabloids are using particular techniques in order to attract the readers. While the newspapers rely mostly on the information and the relevance of that information, the tabloid articles mostly rely on gossip and subjective writing and that is why it is very important for the article to have an interesting or ambiguous headline. This paper will try to further explain intertextuality and its origins in the theoretical part, as well as intertextual use in the headlines which are connected to sports and particularly connected to American and English football. This paper will also prov...