Can a city win too much? Boston is putting the question to the test. The Bruins could make Boston the first city since 1935 to hold three major sports championships at the same time.
When the Bruins won the Eastern Conference, it gave Boston yet another reason to celebrate. By Adam Kilgore Adam Kilgore Reporter covering national sports Email Bio Follow May 24 In early 2002, a time before once-in-a-lifetime celebration became farcically routine in her city, Cindy Brown could only calculate and hope.
Taken alone, the past seven months would be enough to make Boston rejoice and the rest of the country want to puke. Taken in context, this is an incomprehensible culmination to a giddy century. Since 2001, Boston’s teams have won six Super Bowls, four World Series, one Stanley Cup and one NBA championship.In American professional sports, the 21st century has belonged, in the words of venerated Boston Globe sports columnist Bob Ryan, to “a city that so readily wallowed in self-pity.
“We know people hate us,” Ryan said. “We know the national joke this has become, the national talking point among sports fans of America this has become. It’s the point where, ‘Bring it on.’ You can’t get any worse, in terms of mocking us and being envious of Boston. — Justin Bourne May 24, 2019 Longtime observers have noticed a generational difference in how Bostonians process the city’s success. Fans in their mid-30s and older experience the titles with a sense of surrealness.
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