While working on a recent writing project, I had a new thought technology about game stories.

The working assuming all in and around sports journalism has been that the traditional game story is dead. Everyone knows who won the game already, everyone can watch the highlights online, so don’t waste time writing a game recap.

What if … what if we went the opposite way.

What if assuming people have seen the game, we assume that they haven’t? What if sports journalists still wrote a short game recap to go with every story? I’m talking 10-12 inches, max. A classic inverted pyramid AP style game story. The kind that sports journalists are already filing right at the end of a game now, only instead of letting that drift off into the ether of the internet, we keep it around. We package it in print and online with the regular game coverage, where reporters find feature angles, give context, move tehs tory forward.

Call it the “Catch Me Up” or something like that.

The name, obviously, needs work.

But what if we’ve been conceiving the evolution of game stories all wrong?