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Bronze Orr leaps onto the ice forever
By adamg on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 2:12pm
Matthew Cote snapped the photo as a statue commemorating Bobby Orr - and his famous leap when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 1970 - was unveiled in front of the Garden today.
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drunk fans
are going to hang off that statue. I hope it is stronger than Saddam Huseein's was!
Menino's Speech at Event
Menino quote of the day "Ahh sis is won dem free greates momens in Bohston sports-istry - - Furst, Bobby Horr scoring go; Secon, Havchek steals my ball; Fird, VARITEK kicks through uh-rights for Supah Bo."
PRICELESS
Mayor Menino slips during Bobby Orr ceremony
Not sure if you seen Stephen Harris's article about this story - "Mayor Menino slips during Bobby Orr ceremony." Much to the dismay of many, it was only about his ongoing slips of the tongue and not an actual slip and fall down a staircase for all the mean and vindictive things he had done to people over his reign that the public never sees.
Why is every monument in this
Why is every monument in this town so damned literal? If it's a Bobby Orr monument it has to be a figure--taken from a photo--fashioned in bronze so that it will look just like the photo. I have seen the photo. We don't need a bronze thing that looks just like the photo, do we really? It's like the potato famine monstrosity at Downtown Crossing. How much thought did it take to decide that a famine monument should have--wait for it--starving people in bronze.
Whit
agreed
Saw the statue on the news today. Looks more like someone jumping out to attack you than it does a hockey play. Kinda scary if you ask me.
Geronimoooo!
Someone needs to put a kiddie pool underneath him.
wrong thread
The raw milk people are in another place.
Oh, you meant Geronimo.
Yes, because if there's anything a hockey fan loves...
...it's abstract impressionism. Perhaps we could have flown Damien in from London to interpret Bobby Orr's leap in a similar vein as The Physical Impossibility of Death in The Mind of Someone Living. Perhaps someone could channel Leigh Bowery and represent the leap with glitter-flaked faces and Busby Berkeley poses? Perhaps a Bruce Nauman clown homage? Ah, I know, a suspended wave of Richard Serra sheet metal representing not only the lightness of the leap, but the the piffle that is organized sport.
Or perhaps, just sometimes, a literal physical representation of an actual occurrence does the job just as well. Back to the foundry...
I would have preferred an
I would have preferred an enormous hockey puck.
Whit
Or a statue of Don Rickles
.....calling everybody a hockey puck.
This will go well with that Bill Russell statue
Oh, wait, never mind.
re: This will go well with that Bill Russell statue
I second the Russell statue. Maybe placed next to Jim Rice Field, around from Slades that #6 owned for a time in the 70's?
Some outrage
Leon Smith is not happy:
Well, he did kind of win WWII
Well, he did kind of win WWII and the fight against childhood leukemia. But yeah. Not much other than that. Oh, and a number of air-to-air battles in Korea.
ted williams WWII
Ted didnt see any action in WWII. He crash landed and saw lots of action in Korea.
True. Although he was an
True. Although he was an instructor. So I count that as kind of winning something.
Did Menino write that paragraph too
Lots of references to ionic statutes. Lots of positively charged laws named after sports figures laying around this town. I think we should name a law after Bill Russell.
What do you expect..
from the most blatantly racist city in the United States? Ask Boston Magazine!
Russell statue
Join the Facebook group We need a "Bill Russell Statue in Boston"! Maybe Wyc and the boys will get the point if a million or so of us send the message.
It's like an Alcatraz around my neck!
We now have yet another "ionic" quote from the Mayor....Varitek splitting the Uprights!
I still remember the 1998 BSO concert on the Common
If you don't, here's a recap: