I've written before about how weather events affecting the major east coast cities get so much more media coverage than if they occur in other major cities. Today I'm writing about a similar phenomenon that impacts sports.
Why does it seem that whenever a pro sports team from New York or Boston wins a title, it's treated by the media as bigger than when it happens anywhere else? It's happening again now, after Boston won the World Series yesterday.
That's fine, congrats to them, but just like the two other times they won in the last decade, it's getting so much more media coverage than it deserves. Let's just admit, it's a lot less than when San Francisco or St. Louis each won it twice recently.
Today, national sportswriters and broadcasters are saying Boston's win 'transcended' sports and "defined' the city, while also fawning over the fact that while they've won it before, it had been almost 90 years since they won it at home. The thing is, no one outside the northeastern seaboard thinks nor cares about those things, especially for a baseball team that finished last in their division last year.
This media self-infatuation carries over to football, too. In the past decade or so, when Boston (New England) or New York (Giants) won a combined 5 Super Bowls, the media coverage is both breathless and endless. But when a place like Indianapolis or New Orleans or Green Bay wins it, the coverage is much more muted.
We can only hope no Boston or New York teams win any pro sports titles again in our lifetime. Meanwhile, this once again proves my theory that for all of the so-called toughness of the major east coast cities, they really are drama queens when it comes to wanting more national attention for events that happen everywhere.
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