Boston Sports Then And Now is celebrating it’s first anniversary/birthday this month. We want to thank you,the fans!
Without you, none of this could be possible!
I personally want to thank Dean Hybl for giving me this incredible opportunity to untap a passion and skill I never knew I had.
Being out of work for nine months was a great learning experience for me. Between job searches, I was fueled by my passion for writing and building BST&N into a website which delivered great content about today’s Boston sports scene but also remembering the region’s rich history.
Through this site, I have met incredibly passionate fans and sports bloggers like myself. By networking I was able to successfully execute Boston Sports Blogapalooza this past May. It was perfect venue for bloggers to finally meet and collaborate.
And Blogapalooza II is coming this November, so stay tuned!
To say this past year was a fantastic journey, wouldn’t do it justice. It was a life changing moment for me. Even though I was in a bad situation, I made the best of it and found something I truly love.
So thanks again!
To Dean Hybl.
To my BST&N staff.
And to my new friends and fans, it’s been a gift to have met you all!
People have hundreds of stories or reasons, but one of the top choices is probably sports.
I have been crazy for the #8 since I was a little kid. When I was a little kid, I LOVED the Red Sox (probably on Jared Carrabis level). I recall spending summer days in my family’s screen house watching the Sox on a little black and white television.
My favorite player was you guessed it, #8 Carl Yastrzemski. I loved YAZ and I am not sure why. I just gravitated towards him and have been a fan of his ever since (I have bought my share of Yaz shirts over the years).
I still remember vividly watching Yaz day on TV during the ’83 season which proved to be his last. It was such an emotional and wonderful day. He received many gifts on that day at Fenway Park. I can still see him sitting in the rocking chair that was presented to him (I even cut out all the pictures from the Boston Globe).
Who can forget his lap around Fenway Park slapping hands with all the fans?
Everyone outside New England thinks we are a bunch of greedy, spoiled cry babies.
Ok this is year two without a championship, yes this is NOT a typo!
It’s year TWO without a championship in Boston perhaps the Bruins or probably the Celtics can end this “drought.”
After the Red Sox and Patriots took an early exit out of the playoffs this year, Boston sports fans are saying, “Whoa is me!”
Are you kidding me?
I am a HUGE Boston sports fan. I eat, breathe, and sleep the Bruins and Patriots. I am a casual fan of the Celtics and Red Sox. I may not watch every Sox and C’s game but I keep tabs on ALL four major sports teams.
But folks we are GREEDY!
After 2001, we packed up the U-Haul and moved from the run down shack in Loserville. The Patriots(x3), Red Sox(x2), and the Celtics(x1) hired the moving vans and bought us property in the “City of Champions.” Now in 2010, we have a fat swanky mansion in Spoiled Rottenville.
People, the Patriots and Sox realistically can not win it EVERY single year!
As Americans and especially Bostonians/New Englanders, we all have SHORT TERM MEMORIES (don’t even get me going about the American flags after 9/11)!
This Sunday will mark the sixth anniversary of the “Ice Bowl” at Foxboro stadium. The Patriots met the Tennessee Titans in one of the coldest playoff games in NFL History.
The temperature only reached 4 degrees and with the wind chill it was 7 below zero.
And I was there.
I will go to playoff games in ANY weather.
Regular season games are different story. I am in full blown woos mode.
I rather sell these games than sit in the rain or cold.
But the playoffs are for all the marbles.
The Patriots faced the Titans in a divisional playoff game on January 10, 2004.
Of course the game was on a Saturday night so the sunshine wasn’t an option to heat up our frozen backfields.
It was going be cold. Or in Boston speak, Wicked Friggin’ Cold!
JF88 was my man crush during a night of Fantasy Football Ecstasy.
Winning the lotto?
Or having nine mistresses like Tiger Woods?
Doesn’t that qualify as a harem?
I digress.
The only thing better than winning in reality competitive sports is winning at fantasy competitive sports.
As you read from previous entries, I have a great team but I have been taking on more water than the Titanic.
After a 6-2 start, Steaming Cup of Joe lost 3 of its next 4 to stand at 7-5. This included a 2.3 point heartbreaking loss due to Lendale White vulturing a touchdown from CJ28 (Chris Johnson) and Kris Brown missing a field goal which could of sent the Texans-Titans game to overtime.
That one left a bad taste in my mouth.
The ‘Bury league is the most competitive league I have been in. Nine teams were still alive for six playoff spots going into the last regular season game.
Who would be left standing after the dust settled?
We honor Steve Grogan as the Boston Sports Then and Now Athlete of the Month. The former Patriots quarterback left it all on the field during his 16 year career. Grogan was playing the “Patriots Way” before Bill Belichick introduced it in 2000. He led by example and his teammates were always behind him.
Steve Grogan was drafted by Patriots coach Chuck Fairbanks in the fifth round of the 1975 draft out of Kansas State. He was one of the school’s all time passing and total offense leaders. Grogan not only beat you with his arm but he was exceptionally quick for a man standing at 6’4”.
The Patriots already had their franchise quarterback in place when he was drafted. Former Heisman Trophy winner, Jim Plunkett had been the Patriots starter for his first four years in the league. However, Coach Fairbanks was not afraid to make a move if a player was under-performing. It didn’t matter who he was.
Midway through the 1975 season, Grogan was given the reigns of the Patriots offense. He started the last seven games with only one victory to his credit. As a rookie, Grogan posted respectable numbers with 1976 yards with 11 touchdowns and 18 interceptions.
He also added 110 yards on the ground with three rushing scores.
This would just be a sneak preview for things to come from the lanky quarterback out of K-State.
Set. 3, 1981 - The Red Sox and the Mariners play nineteen innings to a 7-7 tie. The game ends with the Mariners winning 8-7 in 20 innings when the suspended game is resumed the next day making it the longest game played in Fenway Park history.
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