I'm only sad because I didn't win any money.
"On Super Bowl Sunday, local fans can only sulk; Boston sports fans used to be connoisseurs of losing, then of winning. Now, the championships we didn’t win haunt us" by David Filipov | Globe Staff, February 03, 2013
For New England sports fans, it is just another weekend of what could have been. What should have been. What may not be ours again any time soon.
Remember Title Town? Remember when Duck Boat parades seemed an annual rite?
Eight Super Sundays removed from the last Patriots championship, fans are starting to get all too familiar with season-ending disappointment. You know, the way it used to be. Only now, it is different. Boston’s unprecedented parade of seven championships in four sports in 10 years did not make losing easier. For some, it made it harder.
We used to go down in flames together; perennial disappointment weirdly brought us together.
It was always the moments when victory slipped from our grasp — destiny skittering through Buckner’s wickets; Grady leaving Pedro in; too many Bruins on the ice in Montreal — that shined brightest in memory, their retelling a kind of community glue.
Isn't that kind off a sad statement on Boston, Massachusetts, and the U.S. society at large? The thing we can all come together over is some provincial sports team where I don't know anybody on the rich man's toy? Aren't there other things that bring us together like views voiced in protest and on social media? Or are we just being propagandized again with another self-serving distortion from the agenda-pushing media?
Somewhere, in all the winning, we forgot about that.
“Everyone takes it personally. It’s almost personal that the Patriots aren’t in the Super Bowl,” said Rusty Sullivan, 47, a lifelong Boston fan and executive director of the Sports Museum, a nonprofit educational institution in TD Garden....
Now we feel jilted whenever our four major sports teams lose. That is especially true of the Patriots after tantalizing near-misses in 2008 and last year....
The Patriots were not alone on that path to historical greatness. Not in our minds, anyway. The Red Sox, having won cathartic titles in 2004 and 2007, and nearly making it back to the World Series in 2008, looked like a dynasty in the making. (As recently as 2011, at least one insider thought they could win 100 games.) The New Big Three Celtics, ring-winners in 2008, were going to extend their lead in NBA championship banners over the hated Lakers (and came agonizingly close to it in 2010).
Now we have an aging Celtics team whose drive for mediocrity has been crippled by the loss to injuries of their star point guard and their promising rookie big man. Speaking of injuries, how about that Red Sox slogan in the wake of last year’s 69-93 debacle: “What’s broken can be fixed.” Have fun rooting for that.
Related: Closing the Book on the Boston Globe
I thought I did.
Our hopes now rest with the Bruins, Stanley Cup winners in 2011 and among the favorites this year....
I wonder what Tim Thomas is up to.
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Hey, at least we are not Cleveland or Buffalo.
Also see: Globe Reporter Scored Sox Tickets
I still wouldn't go to the game.
