Being a Boston sports fan sometimes reminds me of battered-wife syndrome. You get beaten down, but you keep coming back. You?re given just enough to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside, just enough to ensure your devotion, but then you?re inevitably and sorely disappointed. I don?t know why a woman would ever go back to a coward who hits her, and I often don?t know why I remain a Boston sports fan. The Pats Darwin Thompson Jersey , Celts, Sox and Bruins make you want to like them, but it?s sometimes painful to remain a devoted fan throughout all their turmoil.
I grew up in a hockey family and my dad was particularly faithful to the Bruins. From a very early age I can remember him watching Bobby Orr and Esposito skate circles around other teams. By the time I was old enough to actually understand what was going on, the Bruins were comprised of some more awesome players like Middleton, O'Reilly Khalen Saunders Jersey , Pederson, and Milbury. I used to love to watch Boston play Montreal with my father, but it seemed like Boston lost a lot more than won.
It was great to see Terry O'Reilly beat the heck out of other players, and it was cool to watch all these veterans a few years later skate around without helmets while the rest of the players had to wear them. I guess it was some sort of grandfather clause or something. They just looked tough. When Cam Neely and Ray Bourque started playing I enjoyed the Bruins just as much. But after Orr and Esposito were gone, none of these more recent players won the Boston Bruins a Stanley Cup Juan Thornhill Jersey , quite frustrating.
But not to fear, The Celtics around this time were hot. Like the BruinsCanadians, the CelticsLakers rivalry was a blast to experience, especially when the Celts won. And they did. I remember probably one of the greatest NBA teams ever to exist, Bird Mecole Hardman Jersey , McHale, Parish, DJ and Ainge. They weren?t the prettiest bunch of guys around, Bird being particularly funky looking, but they were so fun to watch. It was wonderful to see them beat the L.A. Lakers in the 1983-84 championship and the Houston Rockets in 1985-86 championship.
Unfortunately the last few Celtics? seasons lately have been dismal. They don?t even make it to the playoffs regularly any more. How many more ?building years? do we need? Watching Pierce take off his shirt and wave it around his head while being ejected from one of the playoff games against the Pacers this year was sad.
But 1986 was the end of Boston championship teams for a long while. In fact Tyrann Mathieu Jersey , it was sixteen years until the Patriots finally won Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002. That?s a long wait. That?s a lifetime for crying out loud.
The New England Patriots were another difficult team to watch and remain devoted to. Grogan was a decent quarterback and many would argue Drew Bledsoe was even better, but they never brought a championship home. Watching Drew throw numerous interceptions and trudge off the grid iron with hunched shoulders was disturbing. I like to think of Bledsoe as an ?almost? kind of player. He was almost awesome, was almost a championship quarterback. He almost won the game. Bledsoe actually drove me crazy. He was New England?s franchise player, but he just didn?t seem to ever do quite enough to win. It was so frustrating to watch him play. All big and gawky, shuffling out of the pocket like my nana.
But the tide turned. Third string quarterback Tom Brady took the place of an injured Bledsoe Patrick Mahomes Jersey , and brought the championship home to Bostonians. The 2002 NFL playoffs were absolutely awesome to watch if you were a Boston sports fan. Watching Vinatieri blast it though the uprights in a blizzard to beat the Oakland Raiders, and again to win the Super Bowl beating the St. Louis Rams was monumental. Thank God for the Pats. They brought respect back to Boston. They showed what true grit is, what the word ?team? actually means, in a day when everything in sports seems to be centered on individual feats. I loved it when they ran out on the field together as a team instead of being introduced one at a time at the beginning of the Super Bowl.
Pathetically enough, most people thought the Pats would not win it all again. They thought it was a fluke. The Pats had lost for so long that few had faith in them. But they won it again two years later and people started to pay attention. The word ?dynasty? crept up in New England vernacular. When the Pats won their third Super Bowl in four years Frank Clark Jersey , they were finally accepted as a dynasty. These wins will carry me for many years. Again, thank God for the Pats.
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