Day in the life of a die hard Celtics fan

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For those who’ve been reading my entries for a while, you’re aware that last year I took a trip to ATL to see my Cowboys. A lotta folks joked on me claiming that married life would put an end to those trips across the country to attend sporting events. Little do folks realize, my wife loves sports just as much (if not more) than I do. On this go round, she accompanied me to Beantown to the Celtics game.

Destination – Wizards @ Celtics game – Home Opener
Location – TD Banknorth Garden, Boston MA
Time – 8:00pm

Friday November 2, 2007

  • 8:15am – Awoke to the wife nudging me in my back, got up, showered, threw on my lucky Celtics basketball shorts and T-shirt and lounged around the house since I didn’t have to go to work.

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  • 10:53am – Got dressed, did the online check-in for our AirTran tickets to Boston, confirmed hotel reservations and made sure that the duffle bag was packed with all necessities.
  • 11:20am – Ran the wife to Modell’s so she could get her Wizards Arenas jersey. You know she wasn’t bout to wear the one that I got for her that Gilbert personalized and autographed.
  • 11:43am – Dropped wife off at her job for a luncheon that she needed to attend. Then ran some errands at Costco and downtown DC in the meantime.
  • 1:51pm – Scooped her up from her office, then headed back home to grab our bags for the trip.
  • 3:18pm – Arrived at BWI airport, parked car at $8 lot and caught shuttle to gate.
  • 4:20pm – Boarded plane en route to Boston. We both snagged the headphones given out my the flight attendant and grooved to the XM Radio stations offered by AirTran.
  • 4:52pm – Flight attendants served soda and juice. The wife got a small cup of Coke. I received an entire can of cranberry apple juice. The male flight attendant was obviously ‘sweet’. I just think he was just being nice since I asked for the juice with no ice.
  • 5:57pm – Arrived in Boston. Logan Airport really sucks! Walked outside and it was freezing. Hopped in a cab, told him our destination and sat in the back for the 30 minute traffic filled ride to our hotel in Copley Square.
  • 6:12pm – Walked down Boylston St to Walgreens, so the wife could get somethin’ (look, I don’t remember what it was). But I do remember the rude cashier that almost made my wife go DC on her young Black tail when she didn’t bag up whatever she had bought. Kids these days I tell ya. Ole girl was too busy making goo goo eyes at some young dudes in the store to properly do her job.

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  • 7:01pm – After relaxing in the room for a sec and each changing up in the gear our our respective teams, we jetted from the hotel via cab en route to TD Banknorth Garden to see my Celtics take on her Wizards.

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  • 7:24pm – Arrived at the arena. It was mad packed trying to get in there. Change the white faces to Black faces and you’ve got a Howard Homecoming event. Yeah, it was that crowded!!! Forgive me, but being from the DC area I’m used to seeing more folks like me. Boston was the complete opposite.
  • 7:41pm – Wife and I stood at the long line at the concessions. You know I’m lookin’ at my watch cuz I’m not tryna miss the opening intros for my squad. After what seemed like an eternity, we grabbed our chicken strips. I got mine laced up with lotsa buffalo wing sauce, but the wife doesn’t like spicy and she got the plain ones. That’s wack.

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  • 8:02pm. The Wizards are introduced and Gilbert Arenas is booed loudly!!! I look over at the wife and laugh at her in her Wizards attire.
  • 8:05pm – My squad is introduced and the energy was incredible. Here’s the clip taken from my digital camera which I YouTube’d


  • 8:09pm – Kevin Garnett throws up his first shot… a BRICK!!!
  • 8:12pm – Celtics score first on a pair of KG free throws.

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  • 8:34pm – Cameras in the arena capture shots of various New England Patriots players in the crowd attending game and show on big multimedia screen.
  • 9:19pm – Halftime. Celtics up 58-36. KG, The Truth and Ray Ray are killin’ the Wiz.
  • 9:47pm – A few players from the Red Sox are up in a suite showcasing the World Series trophy as the crowd goes nuts. I was slightly irritated cuz I was tryna watch the game. All these jokers standing up to see some stupid trophy while the Celtics are running up and down the court. Fools. Celtics are still whoopin’ the Wiz though.

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  • 9:53pm – Kid in the row behind us gets on his cell phone and is excited to tell everyone he knows that he was 15 feet from the World Series trophy. Lyin’ azz. We were close to the suite, but not 15 feet kid. Maybe 1500 feet.
  • 10:12pm – Wizards are still getting mashed. Arenas sits down on the bench. Camera shows him grin sheepishly as the Boston crowd chants “Giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiibert sucks!!!”
  • 10:17pm – The wife completely devastated (as you can clearly see) by the Wizards gettin’ their butts kicked on the court, reluctantly agrees to let me take our customary self portrait. Doesn’t she look sad??? LOL.

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  • 10:34pm – Game over. Celtics win 103-83. It’s gonna be a very fun season for me, I can feel it for the first time in 20 years.

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  • 10:43pm – 10:56pm – Walked around TD Banknorth Garden taking random pics. I know my wife was probably tired of me gloating and was ready to go back to hotel, but best believe that I was gonna enjoy every single moment of that victory.

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  • 10:57pm – I convinced the wife to take the second of our customary self portraits that we always take when we go to sporting events. Based on the pic below, you can see how she feels about my love for the Celtics.

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  • 11:09pm-12:16am – We caught a cab back to hotel. Walked through the Copley Square area for a while, but it was boring. I think I can honestly count the number of brothas and sistahs that we saw on one hand. That includes the cat in the 7-Eleven too. No offense Boston folks, but the atmosphere just wasn’t live. Maybe we were on the wrong side of town or came on the wrong weekend or somethin’.

Saturday November 3, 2007

  • 9:50am – Woke up. Went downstairs to get our ‘free’ breakfast. Maaaaaaaaaaan… it was mostly unripe lookin’ fruit and some stale lookin’ donuts. I snagged a banana though cuz I was kinda hungry.
  • 9:54am – We walked to Dunkin’ Donuts and got some breakfast pastries and breakfast sandwiches.
  • 10:26am-12:07pm – Walked around Boston some more. It was cold and rainy and we finally found our way to Starbucks to get our Chai Latte’s.

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  • 1:02pm– Found out our 4:30 flight was canceled due to Hurricane Noel. Started getting worried we’d have to take the train or bus home after looking at more airlines and the large amounts of cancellations.
  • 2:10pm – Received a call from AirTran saying that we were rebooked on the 5:30 flight.
  • 2:47pm Grabbed our stuff from the secure area in the hotel and headed for Logan Airport via public transportation. Yeah, it was much cheaper than a cab and we had the time.
  • 3:36pm – Get to airport after transferring a bunch of times from the green line to blue line due to trains being taken out of service. Did I say that Boston public transportation is kinda wack too?
  • 4:42pm – While going through security I get stopped cuz I had my Bluetooth in my wife’s shoes in the duffle bag. The TSA agent was slow as hell. I thought he was gonna try and strip search me for weapons with the look he had on his face.
  • 5:28pm – Board jam packed plane. Get out the headphones for XM again and groove to music.
  • 5:53pm – Female flight attendants come by with drinks. We each got small cups with our drink orders. No can this go round.
  • 6:46pm – We arrive home safely. Thank the good Lord.

The End……………………………

Peace-N-Love

G. Mo

9 thoughts on “Day in the life of a die hard Celtics fan”

  1. Very much like my husband and I. Both big sports fans…both root for opposing teams.

    Continue to enjoy married life…you both look great together.

  2. ohhh that’s sooo cool you all get to do game sh*t together. I wish me and my hubby were able to travel before kids started falling from the sky. LOL

    Your wife is beautiful! You all look so cute. Glad you had a great time.

  3. first off ya’ll look so fab together!!!

    second.. I’m hating on your celtics!!! LOL but they are doin da damn thing..

    I love it when you can go against your SO for sports.. its great!

  4. Man, next time you come to Boston, you need to hit me up. I am the f*ckin black welcome wagon up in this joint. I can tell you a million places to check out – all color friendly.

    Yes, you were staying on the wrong side of town. Copley is the rich, bougie shopping section. If you wanted to see some folk, you gotta come a little further south.

    Public transpo here is a headache. I have to use it every day.

    I live two T stops from the Garden.

    And as far as Celtics fans – um, they don’t have the shamrock as their emblem for nothin’. LOL There’s no better sports city with more avid fans, though.

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