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You Gotta Be a Football Hero to Get Along With the Beautiful Girls. Or a Baseball Hero

One tell about Boston opinion about the Patriots going into the 2023 season opener is that local TV news, the ultimate homers, are focusing on the Tom Brady ceremony/whatever the hell it is event at halftime rather than the actual game against the Eagles.

Well, there's nothing local TV likes better than some meaningless feel good event, so there's been deep coverage. One station (I'm leaving a lot out here, because the nice lady at the center of this piece deserves better than what's coming) found a sweet woman in her 80s who allegedly was the inspiration for the ho "80 for Brady" horror movie. 

The usual fluff feature ensued, but there was a twist. Some enterprising intern, who I hope this post doesn't get fired, discovered that in her youth, this woman had been Miss New Hampshire 1948. Moreover, he or she also found some newspaper or publicity still in which she appears next to Ted Williams in full Red Sox uniform.

The picture told 10 million words. Ted was very obviously throwing major moves at this sweet young this and she was just as obviously not unhappy about it. At all.

The saying goes that the Splendid Splinter hit .344 on the field and .844 off it. I think we can regard that photo as another occasion where Ted sent one deep over the bullpen into the Fenway bleachers.

What I'm saying here is that this sweet old lady is still a hardcore and together sports groupie. And for that, I salute her. That spirit is what makes America greay.

posted by Michael Gee @ 5:35 PM