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Posted 1 year ago

Why Boston Doesn’t Riot (All That Much)

Boston doesn’t riot all that much anymore, and there may even be a nerdy scientific kind of reason for that. If you missed it last years when the Celtics made it to the finals, here’s my Phoenix article on the storefront window shattering phenomenon that Los Angeles has down to a science.

Also - here’s Deadspin’s take on the matter from 2007, by which time Boston had more or less cleaned up its act. I should also note that while this may seem kind of lame in the moment, it’s actually a good thing that we don’t trash the whole city every time a team wins something. The damn place would look like Baghdad.

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