NESN and Boston Bruins play-by-play announcer Jack Edwards gave this odd and bizare post Game 7 speech after the Bruins defeated the Montreal Canadians in OT to advance to the next round of the NHL playoffs. The speech reminded me of Jerry Springer’s Final Thought, except way more insane.
Below is the transcript of the speech:
“As I was driving from the former seat of all NHL power, Montreal, through the free and independent states of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts today, it struck me what an odd thing royalty is.
“Royalty in modern times is something that is perpetuated by those who didn’t actually make those great conquering achievements that established their reigns, but rather those who find themselves, because of a certain location in history and an accident of birth, to be in a position to ‘carry on a tradition.’
“Yet, those ‘royals’ sit there on their shiny thrones and primp in their hand mirrors and try to dictate morality according to them, about how you can dive, or how you should play, or how you shouldn’t run a player into the center glass.
“And the rest of us, those poor filthy masses, are just supposed to take it.
“Well, a couple of hundred years ago, a bunch of rowdy radicals charged out of some Boston bars, went down to the dock, and dumped the King’s tea into the salty sea.
“And in doing that, it struck a chord that rings true even today, that when confronted when imperious conceit, fighting the good fight is not only the right thing to do, it can be a heck of a lot of fun.
“And who has more fun than us?”
Edwards is one of the most passionate (and insane) announcers in the business. Anyone who could tie a hockey game to the Boston Tea Party is surely not all there.
