Local soccer fans cheered Grace Ross' remarks that her favorite local sports team is the New England Revolution. The link above goes to a thread discussing Ross' remarks about the Revolution, which were reported in the Boston Globe. The writer disparages the Revolution as "the most obscure sports franchise in town".
As was pointed out in the Big Soccer site, more than 20,000 fans showed up for the Revolution's opening game, more than showed up for the Bruins or Celtics openers.
Thank God that there are people like Grace, who actually say what they think, and who pay no attention to people like Don Aucoin.
As was pointed out in the Big Soccer site, more than 20,000 fans showed up for the Revolution's opening game, more than showed up for the Bruins or Celtics openers.
Most obscure? Don Aucoin, you haven't got a clue.
Underdog Ross adds atypical voice
Airs concerns of working class
By Don Aucoin, Globe Staff | October 27, 2006
BROCKTON -- It was the ultimate softball question, the sort that your average politician -- especially your average candidate for governor of Massachusetts -- would have knocked out of the park without even thinking about it.
But Grace Ross thought about it. When a student at Massasoit Community College raised his hand and asked: "Do you like the Red Sox?" Ross considered the question as carefully as she had pondered other queries about healthcare and affordable housing. "I'm actually not much of a baseball fan or a football fan," she finally replied. "I like the Revolution. I'm a soccer fan."
It was enough to make a political consultant weep. What kind of candidate gives the back of her hand to the beloved Sox and the powerhouse Patriots while pledging allegiance to the most obscure sports franchise in town? Where are the votes in that? But in its directness, its embrace of the underdog rather than the winners, and its utter disregard of politics, the answer fit the profile forged by this most atypical of gubernatorial candidates.
The likelihood is somewhere between minuscule and nonexistent that Ross will take the oath of office in January. Few expect her to break into double digits in the Nov. 7 election. Yet to some students on the Massasoit campus, where many come from working-class backgrounds, Ross, 45, is the lone voice in a field of millionaires who speaks directly to, and for them.
"She's more like the average person," said Jamie Lee Porter, 19. "She took time out of her busy schedule to come talk to us regular Joes."
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