Sports 'N Stuff: Did Someone Say Title Town?
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Boston is the "undisputed heavy-weight champion of the world." If there was ever a fan base that had bragging rights, I think we found it.
The Boston Celtics are your 2008 NBA Champions and rightly so. As though my column after Game 1 inspired them (funny right), they took the reins and rode off HARD into the sunset, leaving a trail of dust for the L.A. Lakers to choke on. It's not that the Lakers were bad, the Celtics were just ridiculous.
I am not going into stats. You can read those in any box score. I am also not going to break down players and defenses and offenses.
What I am going to do is say that for those of us who are fans of other than Boston/hometown teams, it is time to acknowledge that these fans have been right all along. Let's face it their team is better than ours!
They have taken over major sporting championship. The Patriots (um, you remember those guys, right?) have brought umpteen Super Bowl titles recently. The Boston Red Sox are the defending champs in Major League Baseball and look like the champs again this year. Now the Cs have shown up after 20-plus years without a title and will be hanging their 17th NBA championship banner.
What the heck is going here? Oh yeah, and have you ever heard of Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards or Matt Kenseth? They just happen to be NASCAR drivers from Roush Fenway Racing and Edwards and Kenseth are perennial contenders for NASCAR's championship, now called the Sprint Cup. They are even taking over racing ... .
So what are we to do? The fans of teams not from Boston are now the minority and it looks like we will be waiting for awhile. The Sawx and the Pats are still championship quality and if the Celtics return everyone next year, they will be just as formidable as this year. I guess we will just have to wait it out for awhile.
So move over Green bay ... there's a new Title Town, USA. Step aside Detroit and San Antonio and Los Angeles, the Cs are back. And as much as it pains me to say this — watch out New York. Boston never sleeps either — they might miss another championship.
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Brian Flagg is the president and co-chairman of the Fall Foliage Charity Bed Race. He was co-host of "The Sports Page" on local public access stations for nearly five years. The North Adams resident has been coaching girls' basketball and softball for 16 years.
