If I had one wish... | I am Jack's blog

If a genie came to me and offered me one wish, it wouldn't be a tough choice at all. Sure, world peace would be fun, and getting rid of poverty go over well with the ladies. But as a good sports watching American man, there's really only one option -

I wish that 2/3 of Boston's sports fans would ****!

I know that Yankees fans can be abrasive, and Phillies fans can be mean (they booed Santa!). But some Boston fans combine both of these things with just a touch - okay a lot - of arrogance that makes watching sports with them all but impossible. Patriots and Red Sox fans flat out ruin sports. I leave the Bruins out, because Boston fans are actually only really annoying when their teams win, and the Celts cause they really are the best franchise in the NBA.

All the fat guys and annoying girls with #12 jerseys on need to take off the blue tinted glasses and try, every once in a while, to take an objective view of SOMETHING. First there was the Tuck Rule game, which clearly was correctly called right? But then there was the TERRIBLE non-call of Eli Manning in the grasp of Adalius Thomas right before the miracle catch. That, combined with Spygate (everyone was doing it!) and their perceived infallible drafting (Lawrence Maroney? Chad Jackson?) makes it impossible to even mention football with a Patriots fan within earshot. By contrast, most Steelers fans I've encountered in person and on this and other websites don't make me want to go buy a Bernard Pollard jersey. Why did you think the Patriots were the most hated team in the NFL?

But nothing compares with Red Sox fans, who somehow manage to compare the sense of entitlement of Yankees fans with a refusal to accept that anyone doesn't like the Sox or accept they're the best. At least most Yankees fans know they're the evil empire. Many of them revel in it, which actually makes them more endearing. Maybe the Sox fans just didn't realize that they were pretty secure in having the second highest payroll in baseball, or didn't notice that a pretty high percentage of their roster is bought rather than developed. The worst part is, lots of you still think you're the Cubs, the perennial underdogs everyone loves. News flash, when you can buy 2 World Series you start looking more and more like the Yanks. If you'll all just admit that the rest of the world can probably start tolerating you.

Of course, the more likely outcome is that nothing and noone will change, at least not until Belicheck eats Brady and Fenway burns down. So how bout we just build a giant soundproof bubble around Boston for a couple years... I know the Yankees could afford it.