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Bronze Orr leaps onto the ice forever

Orr leap

Matthew Cote snapped the photo as a statue commemorating Bobby Orr - and his famous leap when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 1970 - was unveiled in front of the Garden today.

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are going to hang off that statue. I hope it is stronger than Saddam Huseein's was!

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Menino quote of the day "Ahh sis is won dem free greates momens in Bohston sports-istry - - Furst, Bobby Horr scoring go; Secon, Havchek steals my ball; Fird, VARITEK kicks through uh-rights for Supah Bo."

PRICELESS

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Not sure if you seen Stephen Harris's article about this story - "Mayor Menino slips during Bobby Orr ceremony." Much to the dismay of many, it was only about his ongoing slips of the tongue and not an actual slip and fall down a staircase for all the mean and vindictive things he had done to people over his reign that the public never sees.

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Why is every monument in this town so damned literal? If it's a Bobby Orr monument it has to be a figure--taken from a photo--fashioned in bronze so that it will look just like the photo. I have seen the photo. We don't need a bronze thing that looks just like the photo, do we really? It's like the potato famine monstrosity at Downtown Crossing. How much thought did it take to decide that a famine monument should have--wait for it--starving people in bronze.

Whit

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Saw the statue on the news today. Looks more like someone jumping out to attack you than it does a hockey play. Kinda scary if you ask me.

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Someone needs to put a kiddie pool underneath him.

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The raw milk people are in another place.

Oh, you meant Geronimo.

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...it's abstract impressionism. Perhaps we could have flown Damien in from London to interpret Bobby Orr's leap in a similar vein as The Physical Impossibility of Death in The Mind of Someone Living. Perhaps someone could channel Leigh Bowery and represent the leap with glitter-flaked faces and Busby Berkeley poses? Perhaps a Bruce Nauman clown homage? Ah, I know, a suspended wave of Richard Serra sheet metal representing not only the lightness of the leap, but the the piffle that is organized sport.

Or perhaps, just sometimes, a literal physical representation of an actual occurrence does the job just as well. Back to the foundry...

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I would have preferred an enormous hockey puck.

Whit

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.....calling everybody a hockey puck.

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Oh, wait, never mind.

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I second the Russell statue. Maybe placed next to Jim Rice Field, around from Slades that #6 owned for a time in the 70's?

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Leon Smith is not happy:

... Ted Williams, the Red Sox legend (who never won a damn thing, by the way) has a Tunnel named after him and a statute outside Fenway Park. Bobby Orr has a statute in his honor. Red Auerbach has a statute in Faneuil Hall. But Bill Russell, the man known as the greatest winner in professional sports history? The man who won 11 titles in 13 years? The man who also became the first Black man to coach a team to an NBA title, right here in this city? He doesn't have a damn thing in his honor. Not a statute, not a street, not a tunnel. Nothing.

This type of oversight is inexcusable. ...

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Well, he did kind of win WWII and the fight against childhood leukemia. But yeah. Not much other than that. Oh, and a number of air-to-air battles in Korea.

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Ted didnt see any action in WWII. He crash landed and saw lots of action in Korea.

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True. Although he was an instructor. So I count that as kind of winning something.

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Lots of references to ionic statutes. Lots of positively charged laws named after sports figures laying around this town. I think we should name a law after Bill Russell.

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from the most blatantly racist city in the United States? Ask Boston Magazine!

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Join the Facebook group We need a "Bill Russell Statue in Boston"! Maybe Wyc and the boys will get the point if a million or so of us send the message.

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We now have yet another "ionic" quote from the Mayor....Varitek splitting the Uprights!

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If you don't, here's a recap:

Menino demonstrated the city's heart is in the right place, even though he referred to the ''Tabernacle Festival Chorus'' and music director ''Sargio Zawa.''
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