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Thank you, Steve. Now please walk over to Morrissey Boulevard with a printout of your column and stuff it down Bob Ryan's smug, sanctimonious, and hypocritical face.
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/..._before_patriots_hate_it_was_celtics_paranoia
Steve Bulpett said:While the somewhat contrived controversies that have enveloped the Patriots the past several months were a summer (and winter and spring) blockbuster to the rest of the country, it was all little more than a sequel for many in these parts.
Nods and wry smiles were very much in fashion for Celtics types who recall well the 1980s. A highly successful team accused of subterfuge? They’d seen that movie — and now the remake.
“Oh sure,” former Celtics general manager Jan Volk said when asked if he had flashbacks amid reports of deflated footballs and general paranoia among Patriots opponents. “I’d been through that experience — not with the same media frenzy because the media environment is very different now than it was then, but in many ways, it looked very familiar.
“There were all sorts of presumed advantages that were being taken by Red (Auerbach) — by our whole organization, but obviously Red was the marquee person.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/..._before_patriots_hate_it_was_celtics_paranoia