On revisionist history and Boston sports fans

> As a long time strong disliker of all Boston sports teams (boarding school
> in Massachusetts will do that), I take solace in the theory that teams
> that get taken to 7 games in the first round by 37-45 8th seeds with the
> worst record in the playoffs may not be likely to win a championship. One
> can always hope anyway...


> Ah feel yer pain! Disliking Boston sports teams must be a painful life
> these days: Sox in first place, Celtics back on track. Patriots posting
> only 17 win season in history, even the Bruins looking good for next year.
> Doug, I'd convert if I were you. Just blame it on the time you spent up
> here as a kid. Your buddies will understand!


Yeah, they've had a nice little run recently. On balance, I'm glad to say
though, it's been very rewarding to root against Boston teams over the
years. Collectively they've spent a lot more time sucking ass than they
have winning championships (or in many cases half their games). This notion
has been known to succumb to the "short term loss of long term memory"
syndrome and so is often absent in the delirium of the moment
(understandable) and for years afterwards (less so but worth its weight in
entertainment value).
It is both instructive and amusing to watch years of hard earned humility
turn like alchemists' gold into arrogance and is especially worthwhile to
watch it turn back when the inevitable happens. Indeed, it is almost worth
having to listen to the revisionist "Boston as sports dynasty town" history
that inevitably arises during the countless eons of glory that Boston has
been blessed with between those occasional returns to "equilibrium" (AKA
"mediocrity").
Perhaps the current entitled version of the Boston sports fan might do well
to recall that conquering Roman generals returning home in the lead chariot
of their victory parade in front of all of Rome were always accompanied
there by a slave, who whispered in their ear "All glory is fleeting..."
Nah.