Boston College soccer followers must be involved over Gov. Maura Healey’s mocking assaults on Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida.
That’s as a result of her criticism of the Sunshine State is barely offering coaches of the Florida State Seminoles and the University of Miami Hurricanes — two soccer powerhouses — with locker room materials to make use of in opposition to us.
When it involves Florida, Massachusetts wants a win. It seems we are able to’t beat Florida in something.
Perhaps the Bay State wants a miracle, like Doug Flutie’s “Hail Mary” move to Gerard Phelan that gave BC a miraculous last-second victory over Miami within the 1984 Orange Bowl.
That win raised the spirits of hundreds of thousands of individuals. Something that no politician since JFK has been in a position to do.
Football guru John Madden stated of the height-challenged Flutie, a one-time New England Patriot, “Inch for inch, Flutie in his prime was the best quarterback of his generation.”
But whereas there’s a statue of Flutie, as soon as a Natick resident, at Boston College he, like many different folks, left for Florida.
This consists of Tom Brady, previously of Brookline and the New England Patriots. The crew has by no means been the identical after he left to hitch the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He even got here again with the Bucs to beat the Patriots in 2021.
The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that some 60,000 Massachusetts residents left the state within the 12 months between July 2021 and July 2022, most of whom, looking for decrease taxes, much less crime and a greater high quality of life, joined Flutie and Brady in Florida.
And whereas Gov. Maura Healey has launched a $750,000 billboard marketing campaign in Florida and Texas that includes photographs of smiling LGBTQ {couples} to lure folks to Massachusetts as a spot “for all of us,” it’ll take greater than that to stem the tide.
Healey on Boston Public Radio known as DeSantis’ insurance policies on training and LGBTQ points “really shameful.” She charged that DeSantis was “out to punish people. It certainly does a disservice to the people of Florida.”
You can’t inform that to folks abandoning high-tax states like Massachusetts and New York for Florida.
What Massachusetts actually wants is just a few significant wins.
Forget DeSantis’ grandstanding, in-your-face play to embarrass Massachusetts, a sanctuary state, by flying in a few planeloads of unlawful immigrants, principally Venezuelans, into toney Martha’s Vineyard. He’s solely fortunate Gov. Charlie Baker didn’t ship them again. But that will have been out of character.
As it was, the islanders couldn’t get them off the island quick sufficient and shortly shipped them to the mainland. So, chalk that up as a win for Florida.
Massachusetts can’t beat Florida in something.
The Miami Heat routed the Boston Celtics within the climactic seventh sport of the Eastern Conference closing playoff sport in May.
The Boston Bruins, who broke the file for many common season wins, have been crushed by the Florida Panthers in sport seven of the primary around the National Hockey League playoffs for the Stanley Cup in April.
The Boston Red Sox appear to lose each time they play the Tampa Bay Rays, and the Super Bowl New England Patriots all the time have issues once they go in opposition to the Miami Dolphins, particularly with out Tom Brady.
As far as Major League Soccer is worried Inter Miami was given an incredible increase over the New England Revolution when celebrity Lionel Messi, the world’s greatest participant, joined Inter Miami this previous week.
So, all we have now left is Boston College.
And it’s not as if the BC Eagles can be going through off with pushovers early within the season, like UMass and Holy Cross.
Florida State and Miami play severe soccer, as BC generally tries to do.
Underdog Boston College performs Florida State on Saturday, Sept. 16 and Miami on Friday, Nov. 24. Both are Chestnut Hill house video games.
Both groups can be robust to beat, however miracles do occur.
And Massachusetts badly wants a win over Florida.
Gov. Healey for outdated occasions’ sake must ask Doug Flutie easy methods to do it, even when he does reside in Florida.
What have we obtained to lose? Go Eagles.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”