Boston.com · May 4, 2024
Our winters just won’t be the same without Jack Edwards and Mike Gorman
Longtime Celtics broadcaster Mike Gorman was honored at halftime of his final regular season game at TD Garden in April.To say that Jack Edwards was more prone to soliloquy than Mike Gorman would probably stand as the most blatant understatement in the 15 years my byline has been on this column.
Edwards’s greatest hits during his 19 years as the Bruins’ play-by-play voice on NESN of course include his Patriots Day/Revolutionary War ode in 2009 after the Bruins beat the Canadiens in Game 3 of a playoff series.
“Two-hundred-and-thirty-four years ago yesterday, a bunch of rag-tag farmers stood up against the greatest fighting force in the world . . . ”