Celtics ☘️ Sentinel

In his interview with Sopan Deb of the New York Times , Jaylen Brown rendered his evaluation of Celtics fans - indicating that a portion of the fan base is "toxic". Of course, he is correct . But in the event any of my readers miss it, so is a portion of our society, generally ( per The New York Times Sopan Deb ): "I know that every Celtics fan in our arena is not a racist. We have people of all walks of life, ethnicities, colors, that are die-hard Celtics fans. So I think painting every Celtics fan as a racist would be unfair." I have closely followed the Boston Celtics, all the way back to the very-early 60's when the seats way up in the raftors were tagged as "N----r Heaven". The racist attitude of the majority of Boston fans is still admittedly not what it should be, but it has improved significantly. "A person's intelligence is inversely proportional to his/her level of racism." --- Tom Lane Make your own judgements, but I have foun...

Let’s get this out of the way. I love the city of Boston, I love the sounds, smells, activity, history, architecture and people. And I think that Boston has always felt the same way about me. In the early 90’s I drove with a buddy to Boston in my 1986 Champaign coloured Saab 900s (my first car). We were looking for Fenway Park to see the Red Sox play the Indians. I was lost. No GPS at the time and no street allowed me to make a left turn to cross the river, so I did what is perfectly legal in most of Canada. I made a u-turn.  And then I saw the sirens. A policeman pulled me over. “Where are going ?” Fenway Park to watch the Sox, I replied, “Who’s pitching?” Roger Clemens, I told him. He went to his car and came back with a piece of paper and handed it to me. “No more u-turns” he said. He walked back to his car and drove away. I looked at the paper. He had written directions to Fenway! “I love this city”, I told my buddy.  Fenway was amazing. I had my first steak tip sandwich f...