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JP — we're stereotyped as a neighborhood that's more likely to actively avoid the Super Bowl than watch it non-ironically. But I bet that's not very accurate. I'm looking for your snapshots showing that JP does indeed have plenty of Patriot pride. Add your photos to this gallery. If you're away from the computer, you can add them to our Facebook page or text them to 617-680-5155.
I think I understand sports culture. I will never complain about the Third Harbor Tunnel being renamed after the Splendid Splinter. I just don't like seeing grown men dressed in team uniforms unless they actually play on that team.
I was in a pizza parlor with my husband on Saturday when I spotted them: A married couple in their mid-50s wearing matching nylon Patriot’s football jerseys. Being well into middle age and a long suffering wife myself, I smiled broadly at the woman, trying to catch her eye so I could joke with her about her choice in costume. Alas, she was having none of it. This woman was thrilled to be wearing a matching football jersey with her husband, reminiscent of tourists on Cape Cod who wear T-shirts that read “Master” on one and “Slave” on the other. I have a code: no man or woman over the age of 12 years should ever wear clothing that is a knock-off of a professional sports outfit; this includes professional football, baseball, basketball and …
Jim Koch of Boston Beer Co., which has a brewery in JP, took it in stride. "If it weren't for the original New England patriot, Samuel Adams...we might be watching cricket and drinking tea instead of watching the Super Bowl."
A New York bar won't be serving any Sam Adams brews during Sunday's big game, according to the Boston Globe's beer blogger. The founder of Sam Adams, which has a brewery here in Jamaica Plain, wasn't too upset about the snub from Foley's Bar, which is just across from the Empire State Building. "We are OK being taken off draft for a couple of hours if the hometown fans want to show their team spirit on Sunday," Jim Koch said in an email. "I know Foley's, and it's a great bar. I hope they remember that no matter where you're watching the game or who wins, if it weren't for the original New England patriot, Samuel Adams, and his cohorts, we might be watching cricket and drinking tea instead of watching the Super Bowl." Jamaica Plain's Sam …
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gretchen van ness
10:35 am on Monday, February 6, 2012
LOL, Margaret -- I thought I was the only one who felt this way! (but I was rooting for the Patriots yesterday even though I don't own a single piece of Patriots gear) more ›