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May 15, 2008

Slate says: TD Banknorth Garden is cheesy and generic. Why do Celtics keep winning there?

We've remarked upon it ourselves, and the point is pretty obvious: Going to a Celtics game is not quite the experience that it used to be, back in the days of Bird, McHale and Parish.

Of course, the same applies to going just about anywhere, to just about anything. So although pining for the old days is pretty useless indeed, I nonetheless got a laugh out of John Swansburg's story today on the online magazine Slate: Dispatch from The New Garden.

Here's how Swansburg starts:

BOSTON — When historians look back on these last days of American hegemony, they will perhaps point to our blunders in Iraq or the fall of the once-mighty dollar as the first signs of our impending decline. I fear, however, that future scholars may overlook an equally ominous recent development: the invention of the T-shirt cannon. This device—used to project balled-up T-shirts into the farthest reaches of sports arenas—has proliferated among the NBA franchises with alarming speed. Last night, during breaks in the action between the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers, Lucky, the Celtics' mascot, pranced onto the court brandishing this weapon, using its coveted ammunition to work the crowd into a lather. That he succeeded despite the fact that every ticket holder had already been given a free Celtics T-shirt seemed to this fan a clear indication that our society's best days are behind it.

Posted by Mike McDermott  at 1:39 PM to Celtics | Permalink

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