Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go! Hockey Talk. No Blue, no Devils talk. No supporting the team. Although Martim Brodeur may be the best goalie there’s ever been. The best we’ve ever seen. Better than Orson Bean. But no. I watched some highlights today. Some hockey hiyghlights today. Some Big Bad Bruins hockey highlights today. I watched the Big Bad Bruins stick it to the Philadelphia Flyers. Stuck it to ‘em real good like. The Big Bad Bruins stuck it to the Philadelphia Flyers in overtime. Good old fashioned hockey. Bobby Clarke hockey. Even wore the throwbacks. Whenever I see those old Bruin Uni’s I think of one thing and one thing only. That music. You know the music. New York, London, Paris, Munich. Everybody talk about, pop musik. That channel 38 music. It kind of goes a little something like this:
Josh Q. Public:Don’t you forget about me. Don’t don’t don’t don’t. Don’t you forget about me. -Simple Minds
Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go! The Big Bad Bruins. Everybody knows about the Boston Red Sox. Everybody glows about the New England Patriots. Everybody crows about the Boston Celtics. What about the Bruins? How come nobody’s talking about them? What we’ve got here is… a failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. Well, I’m here to reach you. I’m here to teach you. I’me here to preach to you. I’m here to preach to you about the Boston Bruins. Can I get an amen? The Boston Bruins just came into the month of March like lion. The Boston Bruins just came roaring into the month of March with six straight wins. The Boston Bruins just picked up points in eight consecutive games. The Boston Bruins are in a tie for sixth place with the New York Rangers. Who woulda thunk? Who woulda thunk the Bruins would now just be four points behind the conference leading New Jersey Devils. Don’t mess with the Devils, buddy. The Devils! Haaaa! Well, you gotta support your team. I support my team. I support the Bruins. The Big Bad Bruins. The Big Bad Bruins have surged to the six seed in the Prince of Wales Conference. The Big Bad Bruins have a real shot at fourth and home ice in the first round. All without Patrice Bergeron. All without Manny Fernandez. Goodness! The Bruins have been doing it with Phil Kessel. King of the shootout. The Bruins have been doing with Marc Savard, the most underrated player in the league. Underrated with a league leading fifty-nine assists. Joe Thornton who? The Bruins have been doing it with goalie Tim Thomas. Second in all of hockey in save percentage. The Bruins have been doing it with the kids. With Milan Lucic. The next Terry O’Rielly. With David Krejci. Krejci’s extended his goal-scoring streak to three consecutive games.They’ve been doing with the big man. The big man, Zdeno Chara. All six foot nine of him. All six foot nine of him scoring fifteen goals. All six foot nine of him dishing out thirty assists. All six foot nine of him maintaining a plus-10 while averaging 27:05 in ice time. He’s all man. He’s the biggest of the big. The baddest of the bad. The heart of these Big Bad Bruins. These playoff bound Big Bad Bruins. Bound for glory. Boston’s other team. Now you know!
Public Acknowledgements: Cool Hand Luke, Mick Colageo and Seinfeld
Josh Q. Public: There’s something about a Josh Q. Public man.
Public Service Announcement: OK, here we go! I know I’m a homer. A shameless homer. An insufferable homer. An incorrigible homer. Doh! But still. Still. This has to be the best time ever to be so. It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right. I hope you had the time of your life. I did. I did. I am. I am. This is the apex of my Boston sports fandom. The pinnacle. The Zenith. I’m doing all right, getting good grades. The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades. This moment in time. This right here. Stanley, see this? This is this. This ain’t something else. This is this. From now on, you’re on your own. Sports historians will go back and claim this era in sports the Boston Sports Age. Bigger than the Bronze Age. Better than the Age of Reason. Bigger and better. Just stop a minute. Freeze frame! This freeze-frame moment can’t be wrong. What would a Boston story be without J Geils? Sorry, back to your regularly scheduled program. 1986 may be the closest, but that wasn’t even close. The Celtics were the cornerstone. The Celtics with the Big Four. The Big Four. Bird. Walton. McHale. Parrish. Champions of the world. Maybe the best basketball team ever assembled. The Red Sox were one booted ball away from their first World Series win since 1918. The Patriots with Grogan, Andre Tippett, Stanley #### and company were one year removed from their first Super Bowl appearance ever. One year removed from their first Super Bowl appearance ever but ousted by John Elway and the Denver Broncos in the first round of the playoffs. Follow me, don’t follow me. I’ve got my spine, I’ve got my Orange Crush. The Bruins powered by Cam Neely and Ray Borque were on their way to great things. But not there yet. Lemelin and Moog had still not arrived. Boston College quarterback and DougFlutie back-up, Shawn Halloran, led the team to a 9-3 record and a 27-24 win against the Georgia Bulldogs in the Hall of Fame Bowl. The Jim O’Brien era on the hardwoods was just beginning. All and all, a pretty good time to be a Boston sports fan. Pretty pretty good. .
This is a great time.
The Boston Red Sox have just steamrolled their way into the playoffs. Went wire to wire atop the AL Beast. Went wire to wire in the AL Beast and dethroned the hated Yankees. Dethroned the hated Yankees after their nine year run. Dethroned the hated Yankees after humiliating them in 2004. Reverse the curse. Wake the damned Bambino so I can drill him in the ####. The times they are a-changing. This Red Sox team is looking to be tough to beat. Mighty tough to beat. Beat on the brat. Beat on the brat. Beat on the brat with a baseball bat. Oh yeah, oh yeah, uh-oh. Uh-oh is right. Did you see Curt last night? Boom boom out go the lights. Lights out in his first postseason game since the bloody sock World Series game. Lights out striking out four. Light out allowing a meager six hits in seven innings. Light out raising his postseason record to 9-2 while lowering his ERA to 1.93. Goodness. Josh Beckett looks unhittable. Manny and Papi look like they can hit anything. And hit it far. They are the clear cut favorites to win this thing. Second in four years. Not too shabby. Not too shabby at all. Roll Sox roll!
The New England Patriots are beating the ever loving daylights out of everybody. James Bond style. Like James Bond, nobody does it better. Makes me feel sad for the rest. Nobody does it half as good as you. Baby, you’re the best. Yes they are. Yes they are. Tom Terrific is the best. Better than all the rest. Tom terrific just tied an NFL record with at least three touchdown passes in each of his first five games. First and ten do it again! And again. And again. The Patriots just became the fourth team ever to start a season with five wins by at least seventeen points. Yowza! They just improved to 5-0. Just improved to 5-0 marking the third time in franchise history they’ve begun a season 5-0 or better. Just improved to 5-0 without a big contribution from Randy Moss. Without Randy Moss, who going into the game, was the NFL leader in yards receiving and total touchdowns. Primetime! That’s what these Patriots are. Primetime baby! Primetime! Primed and ready to take down their fourth Super Bowl Trophy.
The Boston Celtics. Everything’s coming up roses. You’ll be swell! You’ll be great! Gonna have the whole world on the plate! Starting here, starting now, honey, everything’s coming up roses! The Big ticket. Ray Ray. The Truth. The new Big Three. There hasn’t been this much optimism around the Causeway since Larry Legend left town in traction. Hot ‘Lantic title in the bag. East title very accessible. NBA Champs? Who knows? The main thing is this: They’re in the conversation. I know. I know. A little less conversation, a little more action. All this aggravation ain’t satisfactioning me. A little more bite and a little less bark. A little less fight and a little more spark. Close your mouth and open up your heart and baby satisfy me. These Celtics will satisfy you. Satisfaction guaranteed.
For Boston, for Boston, we sing our proud refrain! How ’bout them Eagles. Them Boston College Eagles. Them Boston College football Eagles. Fourth in the nation? Are you kidding me? Matt Ryan. Cold as ice. Cold as ice, willing to sacrifice. Willing to sacrifice on the way to a Heisman. Willing to sacrifice on the way to an undefeated season. Willing to sacrifice on the way to a National Championship. The Eagles haven’t been ranked this high since they climbed to No. 4 following a 52-20 victory over North Carolina way back in 1984. Way back in 1984 when Midget Moses was behind center. Way back in 1984 when two weeks later they lost to West Virginia. Way back in 1984 when they finished the season with a Cotton Bowl victory over Houston and a No. 5 AP ranking. Not to mention having the Heisman Trophy winner in quarterback Doug Flutie. With only Notre Dame and Virginia Tech standing in their way, this season could be better.
We had Bobby Orr and the Big Bad Bruins. We had Teddy Ballgame. We had Bill Russell and all those Celtics banners raised in the gahden. We had Yaz and the Impossible Dreamers. Boston Sports has had a lot of great moments. But none like this. None like this all at once. Hummin’, comin’ at cha. Yeah, ya know I’m gonna gat ya. Savor this moment Boston Sports fans. It is a moment the likes of which, we may never see again.
Public Acknowledgements: Simpsons, Green Day, Timbuk-3, Deer Hunter, REM, Pedro Martinez, Bob Dylan, Ramones, Ian Flemming, Carly Simon, Tina Turner, Chris Berman, Gypsy, Elvis, Foreigner and Cypress Hill
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Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go! Hockey Talk. No Blue, no Devils talk. No supporting the team. Although Martim Brodeur may be the best goalie there’s ever been. The best we’ve ever seen. Better than Orson Bean. But no. I watched some highlights today. Some hockey hiyghlights today. Some Big Bad Bruins hockey highlights today. I watched the Big Bad Bruins stick it to the Philadelphia Flyers. Stuck it to ‘em real good like. The Big Bad Bruins stuck it to the Philadelphia Flyers in overtime. Good old fashioned hockey. Bobby Clarke hockey. Even wore the throwbacks. Whenever I see those old Bruin Uni’s I think of one thing and one thing only. That music. You know the music. New York, London, Paris, Munich. Everybody talk about, pop musik. That channel 38 music. It kind of goes a little something like this:
March like lion. The Boston Bruins just came roaring into the month of March with six straight wins. The Boston Bruins just picked up points in eight consecutive games. The Boston Bruins are in a tie for sixth place with the New York Rangers. Who woulda thunk? Who woulda thunk the Bruins would now just be four points behind the conference leading New Jersey Devils. Don’t mess with the Devils, buddy. The Devils! Haaaa! Well, you gotta support your team. I support my team. I support the Bruins. The Big Bad Bruins. The Big Bad Bruins have surged to the six seed in the Prince of Wales Conference. The Big Bad Bruins have a real shot at fourth and home ice in the first round. All without Patrice Bergeron. All without Manny Fernandez. Goodness! The Bruins have been doing it with Phil 
Kessel. King of the shootout. The Bruins have been doing with Marc Savard, the most underrated player in the league. Underrated with a league leading fifty-nine assists. Joe Thornton who? The Bruins have been doing it with goalie Tim Thomas. Second in all of hockey in save percentage. The Bruins have been doing it with the kids. With Milan Lucic. The next Terry O’Rielly. With David Krejci. Krejci’s extended his goal-scoring streak to three consecutive games.They’ve been doing with the big man. The big man, Zdeno Chara. All six foot nine of him. All six foot nine of him scoring fifteen goals. All six foot nine of him dishing out thirty assists. All six foot nine of him maintaining a plus-10 while averaging 27:05 in ice time. He’s all man. He’s the biggest of the big. The baddest of the bad. The heart of these Big Bad Bruins. These playoff bound Big Bad Bruins. Bound for glory. Boston’s other team. Now you know!
Reason. Bigger and better. Just stop a minute. Freeze frame! This freeze-frame moment can’t be wrong. What would a Boston story be without J Geils? Sorry, back to your regularly scheduled program. 1986 may be the closest, but that wasn’t even close. The Celtics were the cornerstone. The Celtics with the Big Four. The Big Four. Bird. Walton. McHale. Parrish. Champions of the world. Maybe the best basketball team ever assembled. The Red Sox were one booted ball away from their first World Series win since 1918. The Patriots with Grogan, Andre Tippett, Stanley 
Borque were on their way to great things. But not there yet. Lemelin and Moog had still not arrived. Boston College quarterback and Doug Flutie back-up, Shawn Halloran, led the team to a 9-3 record and a 27-24 win against the Georgia Bulldogs in the Hall of Fame Bowl. The Jim O’Brien era on the hardwoods was just beginning. All and all, a pretty good time to be a Boston sports fan. Pretty pretty good. 
The Boston Red Sox have just steamrolled their way into the playoffs. Went wire to wire atop the AL Beast. Went wire to wire in the AL Beast and dethroned the hated Yankees. Dethroned the hated Yankees after their nine year run. Dethroned the hated Yankees after humiliating them in 2004. Reverse the curse. Wake the damned Bambino so I can drill him in the 
The Boston Celtics. Everything’s coming up roses. You’ll be swell! You’ll be great! Gonna have the whole world on the plate! Starting here, starting now, honey, everything’s coming up roses! The Big ticket. Ray Ray. The Truth. The new Big Three. There hasn’t been this much optimism around the Causeway since Larry Legend left town in traction. Hot ‘Lantic title in the bag. East title very accessible. NBA Champs? Who knows? The main thing is this: They’re in the conversation. I know. I know. A little less conversation, a little more action. All this aggravation ain’t satisfactioning me. A little more bite and a little less bark. A little less fight and a little more spark. Close your mouth and open up your heart and baby satisfy me. These Celtics will satisfy you. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
