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By adamg on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 10:45pm
4-0! City of champions once again.
Black and gold celebrations off Causeway. Photo by Laura J. Nelson.
From people gathering by the Garden to the Unitarian Universalist Church in Medford, where the bells rang, we reveled in yet another championship title by a Boston team. Fireworks exploded across the area, people yelled "Woo!" out car windows in Davis Square.
Stanley Cup on the Red Line. Photo by Shawn Granniss.
Although bottles were thrown on Valenti Way and some people tried to tip a bus there, Boston was nothing like Vancouver, where outraged fans set cars on fire and police unleashed tear gas to try to quell rioting mobs. At least one Bruins fan left the arena too early.
Flying squads of local and MBTA police and state troopers roamed the areas around the Garden, Faneuil Hall, Kenmore Square and the intersection of Brighton and Harvard avenues.
Cops out in force. Photo by Clair Wyant.
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Comments
You know what I loved?
The fact that you could hear profanity over the air throughout the entire game! Now bring on the traffic nightmare!!!!
This is the good old days
7 championships since 2001. Glory days.
oh yeah.
Boston is the first city to have all 4 sport teams win a championship in a 7 year span -- meaning back to 2004.
Since the beginning of the century:
Patriots: 2001, 2003 and 2004 || Red Sox: 2004 and 2007 || Celtics: 2008 || Bruins: 2011 -- and 1st NHL team to win the Cup on three game 7 wins!
New York, L.A., Chicago...you can suck it.
We are going to be insufferable (meaning the few remaining Boston sports fans who weren't already).
LOL
Everyone always forgets the Revolution in 07!
All major five teams have done it since 2011.
We are undoubtedly Title Town USA!
Revolution hasn't yet won the MLS Cup
They've lost it 4 times (including 2007, the year you mention) but haven't won it yet. A pretty good record but not yet a championship one.
US Open Cup in 2007
To be fair, the Revolution won the US Open Cup in 2007. It's a competition open to all USSF teams and the play is going on concurrently to the MLS season. MLS teams play lower level teams and often lose, because they aren't putting their top players on the field (MLS Cup is more important & players often aren't that motivated about the tourney) and they don't want their best players hurt against semi-pro folks who aren't as good (in general). However, MLS teams have won 14 of the last 15 championships.
Winning the Open Cup in 2007 gave the Revolution the right to play in the CONCACAF Champions League.
But it's not the same as winning the MLS Cup.
Wow . . .
. . . just out and about around the waterfront/aquarium area and I have to say the outpouring and reaction is more than I remember for either the Red Sox, Celtics, or Patriots. Revelry but not mayhem.
other coast
seems Vancouver is getting all the mayhem....
Live riot reports
And photos.
Just a few...
Canuckleheads.
The twitter tells me a bus
The twitter tells me a bus was overturned in Boston? Any actual news reports on this?
I think they were foiled
At least, based on what I was hearing on the police scanner.
There were bottles flying from Valenti Way, one arrest (so far), maybe a light pole taken down, flying squads of police roving the area, but on the whole, absolutely nothing like Vancouver.
WHDH has the chopper video of
WHDH has the chopper video of the fans rocking the police bus. They had it going pretty well. It was quickly stopped and they moved the bus behind the police lines.
Just Nice
The coverage in the local paper, the Sun, (lots of riot pix) is much more gracious than the fans. I'd bet our rags would not have been as equanimous and honest.
The game recap included:
Commentary by columnist Cam Cole had:
Curses, Foiled Again!
I think that might be the same "Stanley Cup" that my husband photographed in Davis Square.