Reverse The Curse?

           Boston and New York have been fighting a sports war on multiple fronts for more than a century.  Baseball, football, hockey, basketball: you name the championship, our teams have battled over it.  Up until a few years ago, New York seemed to have the edge.  Even though the Patriots were winning, their other teams seemed incapable of making the all-important final round of the playoffs.  The Knicks were hot throughout the 90’s, while the Celtics were not.  The Yankees were World Series Champions, leaving The Red Sox in the Wild Card.  I disqualify hockey because both the Bruins and the Rangers stunk for a few years there, but you get the basic gist.  New York had the lead.  “The curse” kept Boston beneath us in the sports world.  Then, everything changed.

           When the Red Sox won their World Series in 2004, New York wrote it off as a fluke.  “There was no curse.  They just sucked for 86 years!”  No big deal, right?  I mean sure, The Patriots won the Super Bowl the same year, but stranger things have happened.  Sure, the Patriots had won two other Super Bowls in the five years prior to 2004, but it still didn’t matter.  See, us New Yorkers have a rough hide.  It doesn’t crack with one loss!

   When the Red Sox won their World Series in 2007, things started getting a bit more serious.  Two wins in four years sounds a lot like what our Yankees did a few times.  To follow up with that, the Celtics are a better team again and are in first place in the Eastern Conference.  The Patriots had an undefeated record going for them, and once more made it to the Super Bowl.  Things seem to be changing.  The mojo is shifting.  Will New York be second best?  Ha!

Hope survives, all thanks to The Giants!  With their miracle victory over the 18-0 Patriots, we reversed our own curse; the scales shift back in our favor.  Now, even if the Celtics win, we still have The Super Bowl, and a brand new baseball season to look forward to.  The Bruins and the Rangers…well, let’s leave them out of this for the sake of sanity.  New Yorkers will remain strong and proud, even when we are the underdogs.   That is what Boston fans did all those years, and now they get to reap the benefits (except for in football, ha!).  Giving up makes the suffering we, in a worst case scenario, go through, taste sour.  Hang in there, people!  After all, we still have about 20 more championships, right?  Beat that, Massachusetts!