New York/Boston Finals; Rivalries **Part Two

Of course, the teams meeting in this year’s 46th Super Bowl met in the 42nd such sport’s finals when the Giants defeated an 18-0 New England team. This is the 6th Super Bowl matching teams that have met before in the Super Bowl. All 6 such games were or will be televised by NBC (Wonder if they know that and if they will cite it? Andybsports.com readers know it and if you have any interesting facts or trivia, for that matter any comments, please leave word in our comments section.)

New York and Boston have never met in a basketball finals series. The Boston Bruins have won both Stanley Cup Finals against the New York Rangers, one in 1929; 2 games to none. The other was Boston winning 4 games to 2 in the 1972 Finals. A key game, perhaps the key game, was the series opener. The Bruins had dissipated a (5-1) lead, the Rangers tied the game, (5-5) and then the Bruins got the game winning goal from Garnet “Ace” Bailey. Perhaps, we can all gain some perspective about this upcoming Boston vs New York sports final by remembering Bailey was killed on one of the planes on September 11, 2001.

Andy B

Garnet "Ace" Bailey