What is New England's greatest sports story? How about since 2000?

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00:00Dan Shaughnessy wrote a story yesterday calling the

00:032004 World Series

00:05New England's greatest sports story. Mm-hmm, and I have to say I

00:12Upon first glance. Nobody does historical sports perspectives quite as well as Shaughnessy in Boston. I

00:19Agreed, but you know what?

00:22Upon further thought I think Wiggy once again is getting screwed

00:27Huh, because I just don't know if o4 happens without the o1 Patriots

00:32And the story of the o4 Red Sox was really the story of a singular rivalry

00:37With the Yankees if they went through the Indians like they didn't know seven and o4 it wouldn't have had the same feeling

00:44So the singular accomplishment of the o4 team was not beating the Cardinals

00:48It was coming back from three games to none

00:51To beat the Yankees a year after Boone's homerun landed in left field at Yankee Stadium to eliminate you in game seven

00:58whereas the Patriots

00:59sucked forever, yeah, and

01:02Out of absolute nowhere. You get a guy in Tom Brady who arrives. Thanks to Jermaine Wiggins

01:08and you get Bill Belichick in his second year and

01:12You get the beginning of the most successful dynasty in the history of American team sports without it without any question

01:20so I would go Patriots o1 as

01:24Because the story is really David against Goliath. Hmm. Yeah, but the comeback