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By WILLIAM C. RHODENPublished: October 23, 2007
With a snap of the finger and the blink of an eye, Boston has become
the epicenter of the national sports landscape.
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Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, winners of three Super Bowls,
may be headed for a fourth.
The Red Sox are in the World Series for the second time in four
seasons. The Patriots, winners of three Super Bowls, may be headed for
a fourth.
The Boston Celtics made themselves instant championship contenders
with the addition cheap house insurance Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen. And the
second-ranked Boston College football team has a realistic chance at
playing for the national championship.
Factor in New York, which is mired in sports retrograde, and this is
heaven in New England. It’s enough to make a mayor burst with pride.
“It’s great cheap homeowners insurance be the city of champions and have so many good sports
teams,” Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston said yesterday in a telephone
interview. “The spirit of the city, people feel good about the city.”
He added: “They have a different outlook about the way they go about
their daily chores, especially when the Red Sox automobile insurance well; the Red Sox
are really the team of the city. When the Red Sox are winning,
everybody feels good. When bridge size playing cards Red Sox are not doing well, the city
doesn’t feel that good. Now you have the Patriots, who seem
invincible.”
You can trace a thick slice of Boston sports through Menino’s life.
The year he was born, 1942, the Red Sox finished in second place, nine
games behind, you guessed it, the Yankees. The Red Sox finished first
in 1946, but the mayor did not see them finish first again until 1967,
when he was 24. Both times, the Red Sox lost to St. Louis in the World
Series.
He attended his first Red Sox game in the early 1950s. promo playing cards remembers
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Basketball Association of America; he was 6 when the B.A.A. merged
with the National Basketball League and formed the National Basketball
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championship in 1957.
Then came the World Series championship in 2004 that the mayor thought
he might not live to see. He was 61 and realized a dream; when the
Patriots won the Super Bowl the same year, he declared Boston sports
heaven. At the time, he said, “2004 was a great year for Boston!
“The Patriots won the Super Bowl. Boston hosted its first national
political convention. And the Red Sox won the World Series!”
I asked him if he planned to attend the World Series. He was
incredulous. “Am I going to World Series?” he said. “That’s like
asking me if I’m going to church next Sunday.”
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Menino said he didn’t feel a particular sense of glee because of New
York’s troubles “because I always had the assumption that Boston was
No. 1 and the problem is, New York was always trying to catch up.
“So I have no issues there,” he said.
Meanwhile, Boston is off to the races: the Celtics crushed the Knicks
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visit Gillette Stadium term life insurance Dec. 16. Last month, the Patriots were
caught illegally taping defensive signals against the Jets. The
Patriots were fined and have been on a rampage ever since. The mayor
doesn’t think payback will be a factor in their game in December.
“It’s not a revenge game,” he said. “We take them one game at a time
until we get to the Super Bowl.”
That’s what Menino says.
But revenge, directed at New York, is ever on the Boston radar. When I
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well the Boston teams were doing. She eagerly interjected, “And wait
till we play the Jets!”
What a fabulous time to be a sports fan in New England; just not great
shakes to be a fan in New York.
E-mail: wcr@nytimes.com
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