More embarrassing than the '85 Pat's Super Bowl performance
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blade_bltz
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I prefer the other song..."New England - the Patriots and We"
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Yeah, the production value was a lot better, but it did nothing to help counter the New Englander = Soulless Preppy image.
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lol goddamn that video was hilarious
what the hell were people in the 80's thinking? god the 80's were a weird time
i am glad i didn't have to live through that decade haha
what the hell were people in the 80's thinking? god the 80's were a weird time
i am glad i didn't have to live through that decade haha
I was young at the time, so it must have been my impressionable age, but somehow these events seemed larger than life; unlike the super bowls of recent memory. The Celtics celebration at City Hall Plaza, the lights going out in the Garden during the Stanley Cup, Haggler Hearns, these were all big events. Let?s see if they make as big a deal when Garnet comes back from his injury as they did for Bird. Even the 86' series seemed like it was somehow more important than it is now. (not nearly as many pink hats...but still it seemed more important.)
Maybe we felt more of a connection with the players, or maybe it was b/c the ballplayers weren?t making quite as much money, who knows. They often times ate at the same places regular people would go to. You?d be out to eat at an average place and the waitress would say ?Jim Rice and his family sat at this table last night.? I probably don?t eat at too many of the same places the Ramirez family does. You even saw a lot of Robert Urich in those clips?everybody had their picture taken with him b/c the guy was approachable and they actually did quite a bit of filming in our neighborhoods, so you felt like this big celebrity was somehow a part of Boston; like when a Celtics player made a cameo on Cheers.
As far as the 80s being a weird time, we said the same thing about the 70s, but looking back at least these decades had their own styles. I still see kids today dressing the same as they did in the 90s. Are baggy drooping pants ever gonna go away?
Maybe we felt more of a connection with the players, or maybe it was b/c the ballplayers weren?t making quite as much money, who knows. They often times ate at the same places regular people would go to. You?d be out to eat at an average place and the waitress would say ?Jim Rice and his family sat at this table last night.? I probably don?t eat at too many of the same places the Ramirez family does. You even saw a lot of Robert Urich in those clips?everybody had their picture taken with him b/c the guy was approachable and they actually did quite a bit of filming in our neighborhoods, so you felt like this big celebrity was somehow a part of Boston; like when a Celtics player made a cameo on Cheers.
As far as the 80s being a weird time, we said the same thing about the 70s, but looking back at least these decades had their own styles. I still see kids today dressing the same as they did in the 90s. Are baggy drooping pants ever gonna go away?
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It all seems to get smaller as you get older. The World Series is almost a snore compared to 67 or 75. You're right about seeing the players around town, too. One of my favorite sports memories is from about 1969, seeing Derek Sanderson pull up to the local convenience store in his brand new Jaguar XK-E, all hirsute and fu manchu, with this beautiful blonde girl next to him who looked like she was 14 years old. Hmmm...I guess he was about 18 at the time!
