athens vs. sparta, number six

there’s a recent article on a national website that uses the upcoming super bowl as a pretext to extol the virtues of new york city, chiefly by way of saying that boston sucks.

i won’t link to this article, because it’s dumb, mostly, and doesn’t deserve the hits, but more because i’d rather link to the brilliant fire joe morgan’s takedown of it. i really couldn’t have said it better, but to it i’ll take the opportunity to point out that most bostonians seemed to outgrow these kinds of articles sometime in 2004, and the shoe truly is on the other foot now. for only dimly being aware of any rivalry, some of our friends to the south seem to be taking it pretty seriously.