Everybody knows the Boston Red Sox just got done winning the World Series by knocking off the LA Dodgers. But the bigger picture shows just how dominating the sports teams from Beantown have been in recent times.
This is the 4th World Series triumph for the Bosox since they finally broke the "curse" of the Bambino in 2004.
The New England Patriots have won 5 Super Bowls in the Brady/Belichick era.
The Boston Celtics won the NBA crown in 2008.
And the Boston Bruins chipped in with a Stanley cup in 2011.
Now if my extraordinary Jethro Bodine ciphering talents haven't escaped me -- that adds up to eleven world titles since the millennial.
No other city is even close to matching that. Some don't even have a single title. Others can claim maybe one, and a few less than a handful.
The city of champions indeed. And the Celtics are definitely trending upwards. GM Danny Ainge has done a masterful job of building their roster for the long term. If Kevin Durant of the Golden State Warriors opts out after this year, as many think he will, the Celtics may well become the beasts of the NBA -- again.
Can that be right? Tom Brady has won more games AGAINST the Buffalo Bills than all but three quarterbacks have won while playing FOR them? Dang, talk about owning somebody.
#12 had 28 Ws against the BBs since he entered the league about the same time the 9/11 disaster struck. Oops, he and the Pats just knocked them off again on Monday Night Football. Make that 29.
True, they may talk a bit funny in Beantown, at least to a mid-westerner such as myself, but there can be no doubt about their winning ways.
No matter how one slices or dices it, eleven titles in eighteen years, spread across all four major sports, is mighty impressive stuff.
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