Re: YES!!

[Boston Sports Fan <bostonsptsfan@yahoo.com>]

--- "j.hironaka" <j.hironaka@unesco.org> wrote:

> 
> My memory may be off, but sometime back in the
> mid-80s (when the Celts had 
> finally eclipsed Philly as the best of the Eastern
> Conference), didn't the 
> Sixers fans start chanting "Beat LA" in support of
> our team, during the 
> waning minutes of an elimination game at the
> Spectrum that put Philly out 
> of the playoffs? I don't know if it was the Sixers
> or another team's fans 
> that did that (I guess Detroit is the only other
> possibility), but it was 
> very classy.
> 

Wasn't it the other way around? In the '82 Eastern
Conference Finals, when the Sixers went up 3-1 (again)
the C's took the next 2, and game 7 was at the Garden.
Then the Sixers came out and trounced the C's pretty
badly. Towards the end, the Celtics fans started the
chant of "Beat L.A."

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