is boston sports heaven-look at the rafters-listen to the crowd-watch the shot

[rollie mass]

all the kids that come through the bostons college experience
 they get to watch and be part of a fireworks display of sports experiences
 watching the red sox finally break the new york jinx in all those extra inning games
,the pats and brady's 5 super bowls and yesterdays comeback and paul pierce hitting that last shot and his big three championship-
all those kids for decades carry those experiences with them as they spread across the country
what a great sunday and next its the all stars with isaiah and brad

[cousytoheinsohn]

Great comment, Rollie. Boston is a special place, like no other. It just is, and always will be.

[LilRip]

In my opinion, I think team success in sports is driven by competent ownership and I think competent ownership is driven by fans who care. Not to say there won't be bad times or years, but in the long run, the ship will right itself while poorly run franchises will doom themselves.

[CelticPride2016]

Rollie mentioned the Boston sports culture in this way well before yesterday in a comment on Isaiah. Boston players who excel end up owning this city and New England. They get coaching jobs or end up on radio and t.v.. Look at Scal. He wasn't even that good at basketball. McCarty was extremely underwhelming as a pro. Yet, there he is on the bench.

Pierce is obviously coming back here at some point. Maybe Bird would be here today if we hadn't ended up buying into Rick Pitino's slimy fool's gold.

Boston is clearly a sports heaven. Even before the Patriots beat the Rams in 2001 and the Red Sox broke the curse in 2004, this was already one of the most fanatical sports bases. We were lovable losers. We were good job, good effort.

What are we up to, 11 or 12 sports titles since 2001? It's impossible to keep track. Many years of my life were spent wondering if the Red Sox were truly cursed by the Babe Ruth trade. The Bruins were always second best to Montreal. The Patriots were a big joke and almost left for Connecticut. There was the Michael Jackson music tour debacle. The Celtics. We were cursed by Bias and Lewis, although those two gentlemen were the true victims of bad luck, and I don't mean to understate that they died painfully too young. It stunk for us, but it was much worse for them and their families.

People around the country never seemed to hate us until we started piling up titles in all four sports.

The Patriots. Wow. They must be one title away from the Steelers for all time best team if winning it all is the true stat. No one saw that coming, even after we upset the Rams which got everything rolling in the Title Town direction.

I personally lost something from all these ultimate wins. I stopped being fanatical. I still love basketball because of the pace and it's just very graceful a lot of the time. I'm not a fair-weather fan, but life is the biggest mystery of all, and one wouldn't want to spend too much of their time obsessing over something that is ultimately leisure and just doesn't matter.

[clover]

The Pats' IT--that is, James White--came up huge last night, just as the C's IT would have.