Opinion | How the youth of New England became the most entitled offspring since the Roman Empire
Humility and perspective may be in short supply after the Patriots’ miraculous come from behind Super Bowl victory over the Atlanta Falcons
I will try to keep this as brief as possible because rumour has it that millennials possess seriously truncated attention spans.
You’re all so damn busy going viral, but all I want is three or four minutes of your time, in particular from the Chowder Head descendant, those millennials of Boston and New England whose sole living memories are entirely rooted in this century.
Congratulations, you hit pay dirt. Your sense of entitlement is now historically on par with the most exalted Roman Emperors.
In your brief lifetime, you have invested your sporting passion in nothing but unbridled glory. Since 2000, you have enjoyed 10 major sporting championships with the New England Patriots winning five Super Bowls, the Boston Red Sox three World Series, the Boston Bruins a Stanley Cup and the Boston Celtics an NBA title.
In the last 14 years of the 20th century, those teams combined to win zero championships, so your full of yourselves, and it’s even more understandable considering you have Chowder Head geezers in Hollywood, like Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, spreading your cultural lore to the world.