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As a die-hard Boston fan I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to Chris Nelson for making him feel bad by every year cheering on my home teams and hoping they win. I had this odd notion that being a fan meant rooting for your team to win. I realize now that even though the Celtics haven’t won a championship since before I was born, they have won a lot of them, so next time I go to a Celtics game maybe I’ll try to get a “lose with dignity” chant going.
Seriously though, do Boston fans complain? Yes, but so does every faithful fan when they see a team they follow lose. I heard Rockies fans complain for the first time about the Rockies losing this year. Would they have complained if the Rockies lost two years ago? No, but that’s because none of them cared about the Rockies two years ago when they sucked. The reason you hear Boston fans complain is because they are loyal fans and stick with their team through the good (as is the case recently) and the bad: the Patriots getting spanked by the Bears in Superbowl XX 46 to 10, the Red Sox not winning a World Series for 86 years, and the Celtics last year losing 18 straight games to break the NBA record for consecutive loses. Even just last year when the Red Sox finished in third place in the AL East behind the Blue Jays, a team that makes baseball into an even slower game by subjecting the viewer to an additional national anthem, they still sold out every single game. I have nothing against fair-weather fans because, in truth, 99 percent of sport fans are fair-weather, but for those of us who are loyal enough to stick with our teams through thick and thin, I think we have the right to complain a little more.
As for the Red Sox being the next “Evil Empire,” are you kidding me? They have a large payroll because they generate a large amount of revenue that they get from things like selling out every game for almost four straight years. The Red Sox do have a lot of money and they may be on the verge of becoming a dynasty due to recent success, but I can’t seem to find how they are evil in them. What makes the Yankees evil is George Steinbrenner threatening to fire someone every year the Yankees don’t win a World Series. It’s traitors like Johnny Damon saying he’d never play for the Yankees and then signing with them for the money. It’s cheaters like Alex Rodriguez yelling “I got it” to a third baseman trying to catch a fly ball. Where is the evil in the group of self proclaimed idiots that comprise the Red Sox? It’s definitely not in Big Papi’s jolly smiling face, or Manny’s goofy antics, or Papelbon’s crazy Irish jig.
I think the real reason Chris hates Boston isn’t because Boston fans complain, or because Boston teams are evil, it’s because right now Boston teams are winning while his teams are losing. Truthfully I don’t mind that he hates Boston fans such as myself. While I might never hate you, because Minnesota teams don’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon, I am sure there will be a time when Boston teams go back to losing and someone else is winning, and I’ll probably hate them too.
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