The 10 ‘most Boston’ moments in sports from 2015
Boston sports fans have been through a lot this year.
There were some great days: pretty much every Sunday during football season (including Super Bowl Sunday), the Celtics’ playoff birth, the signing of David Price, and the overturning of Tom Brady’s suspension. But there were some bad days — it’s not hard to think of a few (see: Deflategate, Boston 2024, and the Bruins’ precipitous fall out of playoff contention). And in those moments, Boston showed its true spirit as a rambunctious city, a quarreling family with a hard shell and soft center.
Here are the 10 “most Boston’’ moments in sports from 2015.
Dunkin Donuts gives Deflategate Judge Richard Berman free coffee for life for overturning Tom Brady’s suspension. Berman overturned the suspension handed down by Roger Goodell for Brady’s role in the Deflategate scandal.
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Meb Keflezighi holds hands with another Boston Marathon runner at the finish line. The 2014 winner finished 8th in 2015, but he was able to share this touching moment with another runner.
2014 Boston Marathon winner Meb Keflezighi of San Diego, California, holds up the arm of Hilary Dionne of Charlestown, Mass. while crossing the finish line of the 119th Boston Marathon.
Pete Frates signs a one-day deal with the Red Sox. Frates, who has ALS, popularized the “Ice Bucket Challenge’’ for awareness of and fundraising for the disease. The former Boston College baseball player sat under the Green Monster and signed his one-day deal.
Former Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martinez hugs Pete Frates during opening ceremonies in April.
True Patriotism at Gillette Stadium: After the Patriots were shown to be among the highest-earning teams in the NFL for paid acts of Patriotism, the Pats paid for this display themselves.
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Mark Wahlberg congratulates Tom Brady after the Patriots’ Super Bowl victory.
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Boston rejects the Olympics. Boston 2024, an organization attempting to bring the Olympics to Boston, failed to rally public support and gave up the city’s Olympic bid after a public outcry of negativity.
Fan puts photo of a crying LeBron James on his jeep. This photo made rounds on Twitter prior to the Celtics playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Barstool Sports employees arrested after staging a sit-in at the NFL’s New York office… because #FreeBrady.“They feel that the Patriots and Tom Brady were railroaded by the #Deflategate investigation and that the suspension is unprecedented for a ruling based on ‘more probable than not’ rather than hard evidence,’’ Barstool Sports business developer Chris Spagnuolo wrote in an email to Boston.com.
Zdeno Chara one-punches Lightning’s Cedric Paquette.
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Everyone freaks out over Tom Brady’s court sketch. Following the emergence of an unflattering drawing, social media exploded with commentary, comedic memes, and photoshopped images. And the sketch artist received many hateful emails, because apparently she didn’t make Brady handsome enough.
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Patriots’ 2015 Draft Class
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