Boston sports fans have celebrated three Super Bowls wins, two World Series titles, one NBA Finals championship and a Stanley Cup since the start of the 21st century. That's an entire lifetime of sports memories in just a 13-year span.
"Rolling rallies" transporting Boston's sports heroes in a championship parade down Boylston St. in the famous duck boats have become an expectation, not a dream, over the last decade.
But none of those parades and championship triumphs, even the historic 2004 Red Sox World Series title that ended 86 years of heartbreak, made this Boston native more proud to be from this great American city than Wednesday's singing of our national anthem before the Bruins took on the rival Buffalo Sabres in front of a sellout crowd of 17,565.
It was the first sporting event in the city since the bombings at the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon killed three people and injured over 150 others.
Following an emotional slideshow tribute set to Phillip Phillips' “Home" that honored the brave men and women who risked their lives to help and protect those affected by Monday's tragedy, as we ...
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