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Philadelphian feels better after venting spleen over Boston sports teams
By adamg on Fri, 10/25/2013 - 4:23pm
Rantiest anti-Boston rant in a long time:
And if it’s not winning, it’s drama. Aaron Hernandez. EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE RED SOX. Spygate. Beergate. Gronk’s existence. Doc Rivers and Bill Simmons. You name it, it probably happened in or involves someone from Boston.
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That's rich...
...Coming from a city whose baseball mascot is even more inexplicable than Wally the Green Monster.
I'm sorry, can you repeat that?
I couldn't hear you over the crowd BOOING SANTA!
The situation with "booing
The situation with "booing Santa", besides being something that happened 40+ years ago, is actually fairly complicated. From my understanding, it occurred during a time when the Eagles were terrible, and when fans were angry with ownership for being cheap. "Santa" was supposed to come down onto the field at halftime. However, the Santa who came out was some skinny teenager with a bad fake beard, and people got angry assuming that the owners hadn't even paid for a decent Santa.(In reality, they had, but "Santa" got plastered and didn't show, so they had to grab some random guy out of the crowd, but the fans didn't know that at the time.) So, the booing, and the snowballs, were really a way to express frustration with bad ownership, a symbolic protest sharing a proud lineage, drawn from Ghandi, with the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam war movements. Attacking them is attacking the proud lineage of free and open speech which made America great, and anyone who does so ought to be ashamed of themselves for supporting the cause of oppression. And that's way we elected the guy who started the whole thing Governor.
Guys, take that "story" with
Guys, take that "story" with a grain of salt. I'm from the Philly area and used to read Crossing Broad on a regular basis, until the "editor" who runs the site, Kyle Scott, became the most annoying, disgraceful and hypocritical content producer I've ever encountered.
The guy is a complete and utter disgrace to bloggers and sports reporters everywhere. When sports news is slow in Philadelphia (which is common these days) he'll revert to publishing posts that have nothing to do with anything relevant. Ryan Lochte is one of his favorite subjects.
As a matter of fact, he's lost a great deal of his original readership due to his inability to understand his own audience's interests. Most real Philly sports fans consider Crossing Broad the TMZ of Philly sports. All Mr. Scott seems to care about is what Philly athletes are eating, dating, driving or doing in their free time.
He's also a massive hypocrite, devoting entire posts to attacking other sites, blogs and sports writers for "selling out" by writing certain stories just to generate page views and lure website sponsorship. I suppose he completely forgot that his website functions on the EXACT SAME BUSINESS MODEL. (i.e. the story you've just read above).
Anyway, GO SOX!
~ From a Phillies fan
The City of Brotherly Love
The City of Brotherly Love needs a reality check, when you hear the words "professional sports teams" or "dynasty", even words like "legends" and "BillRussellHasElevenRings", people think of Boston. LA. Maybe even Chicago. Never in my life have I heard of Philly in a real sports conversation. People are jealous of our success and point to the Hernandez situation and Spygate to try to put is down, that's all fine. I'm 27 and have been to parades and playoff games for the Bruins, Celtics, Redsox and Patriots. Name any other city even close to that status, and MULTIPLES! Please. I relish in stuff like this, just eat it up. Keep it coming.