Here in New England, it's been a tough crowd since 2002. That ball went through the uprights off Vinatieri's foot, and two years later the Sox reversed the curse months following another Pats Super Bowl. The Celtics and Bruins got into the act, and between 2002 and 2020 the big four New England professional sports teams hung 12 banners from the rafters. Fans in the region, starved since the days of Bird and Company, began to nurture a sense of entitlement, forgetting what the

I was a big fan of Hawkeye back in the 1980s. His turn as wisecracking-yet-responsible leader of the West Coast Avengers has always been my favorite iteration of the comic Clint Barton, and while I was pleased to see his inclusion in the MCU's Avengers, I felt they made him too dark, too brooding. The Hawkeye I enjoyed would shine through in moments, such as his "we're fighting an army of robots and I have a bow and arrows" line in Age of Ultron. Still, I came to dig on the c