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The "Boston Brand", traditionally, never really promised much to its sports fans.  Back in the day, New Englanders would be left staring into their chowdah at the end of each baseball season to contemplate the woulda-coulda-shoulda of life.  Until 2004, the Red Sox and Fenway Park were noted more for the theatre of frustration than exultation.  Seems like a distant time when the Celtics were winning at the old Garden.  Only the Patriots in the NFL gave the lustre of midday to winter in New England, and even this has been a relatively recent phenomenon.  Today?  The Sox stormed back into the World Series, the Patriots as usual are rolling toward the play-offs, the NHL Bruins are good, the Celtics are highly regarded again and even the Boston College Eagles are perched at #2 in the nation -- their highest ranking in 65 years.  Must be something in the chowdah, after all.