Sixteen Signs that You are a Celtaholic

by petula on Apr 5, 2007 3:08 PM EDT in Boston Celtics Articles

We recently came across some very disturbing information about our fellow CelticsBloggers at the excellent site lowpost.net. If you're not familiar with lowpost.net, it draws together information from all of the various blogs covering the NBA, and also ranks blogs by the number of weekly posts and the "influence" (a measure of other sites that link to a blog) exerted by each blog.

The Celtics have the largest number of dedicated blogs of any NBA team (15). The Pistons are second with eleven blogs - no other team is even close. The Celtics blogs together account for 109 main blog posts a week, more than double the Pistons' post count (and we won't even get into how disquieting this is, given the relative success of the two teams in recent years). CelticsBlog is, of course, the number one Celtics site, averaging 28 main posts a week (we believe Jeff must have an evil twin), and has three times more influence than the second ranked Celtics site. In fact, only three blogs in all of NBA-dom beat out our beloved CelticsBlog in terms of influence (True Hoop, The Fanhouse and HoopsAddict for those of you keeping score at home).

All of this spurred a realization: you people are addicts! Therefore, as a public service to the CelticsBlog community, we offer the following sixteen signs that your love for the Celtics has perhaps gotten the better of you:

1) You TIVOed Friday night's Celtics-Sixers game and actually watched it.

2) You understand 38.9% of what Bob Cousy is saying.

3) You've scouted players and formed an opinion of who the Celtics should take in the second roundâ€¦of the 2011 draft.

4) At 4pm, when your boss asks what you've been working on today, you have trouble coming up with a cover story that doesn't include the phrase "Rondo's jump shot."

5) You're still annoyed that the Cs cut Kevin Pittsnogle.

6) Instead of admitting to your wife that you are on CelticsBlog again, you tell her you are surfing porn.

7) Your screen name is Roy Hobbs.

8) Instead of a sticker chart, you toilet train your child by awarding "Tommy Points."

9) You start threads like "The Official Respect for Doc Rivers Thread" or "Placed in a Coma Until May 22nd" (lottery day).

10) You know who Glenn McDonald is and that he has nothing to do with fast food.

11) You actually go to fsnnewengland.com and try to win a Tommy Heinsohn bobblehead doll.

12) Your "total time spent online" at CelticsBlog can only be measured by carbon dating.

13) You're over 30 and you have more Celtics game jerseys than dress shirts.

14) Just hearing the name "Kobe" induces grand mal seizures.

15) You've made your own green-clad Greg Oden action figure complete with its own private Banner 17 jet.

16) You spend your spare time writing articles for the front page of CelticsBlog.

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Ouch.

by Roy_Hobbs on Apr 5, 2007 4:33 PM EDT reply actions

17) You visit CelticsBlog 217 times a workday even though you can’t post in the forums due to an inexplicable technical glitch.

by Eeyore III on Apr 5, 2007 4:37 PM EDT reply actions

Sorry Roy. Once we learned that you’d been logged in for an entire month this year (which is only 3 months old…), we couldn’t resist.

by petula on Apr 5, 2007 4:39 PM EDT reply actions

You lost me at Pittsnogle.

by Brickowski on Apr 5, 2007 5:01 PM EDT reply actions

Roy Hobbs….Priceless

by Edgar on Apr 5, 2007 5:01 PM EDT reply actions

its true . . we are all sick – imagine what happens next year when . . . . . . . the c’s are good

by KeepDWest on Apr 5, 2007 5:07 PM EDT reply actions

good article, and yes, being a celtics fan is simply one form of neurosis.

by hwangjini_1 on Apr 5, 2007 5:32 PM EDT reply actions

Lol @ #7

by ManUp on Apr 5, 2007 5:34 PM EDT reply actions

& #7. Too funny. Well done guys.

by Green17 on Apr 5, 2007 6:30 PM EDT reply actions

hwangjini_1 said:
“being a celtics fan is simply one form of neurosis.”
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No, it’s a way of life.

by TrueGreen on Apr 5, 2007 6:53 PM EDT reply actions

I definitely need help….

by FLCeltsFan @ CelticsBlog on Apr 5, 2007 7:13 PM EDT reply actions

Don’t you mean May 22nd about the coma???

by tb727 on Apr 5, 2007 7:27 PM EDT reply actions

That was hilarious….LOL :D

by cocofan on Apr 5, 2007 7:31 PM EDT reply actions

tb727 – Good catch. Yeah. That should read May 22nd (lottery day) of course. We’ll see if we can get the editing gods to change that.

by hankfinkel on Apr 5, 2007 7:41 PM EDT reply actions

That was too funny and too true! I do not remember a game that I did not watch and I Tivo them all!

by BringToughnessBack on Apr 5, 2007 7:42 PM EDT reply actions

tb727 – Good catch. Yeah. That should read May 22nd (lottery day) of course. We’ll see if we can get the editing gods to change that.

Done. I fully expected that my attempt to edit was going to result in your entire article being lost, but looks like it turned out okay.

by Roy_Hobbs on Apr 5, 2007 7:46 PM EDT reply actions

Again great work. Is Jeff going to be Wally Pipp on his own blog?

Very entertaining.

by TripleOT on Apr 5, 2007 7:47 PM EDT reply actions

is very… shoot she’s coming

by BigAlBeezy on Apr 5, 2007 9:18 PM EDT reply actions

I know I can’t be the only one that first read that headline as “Sixteen signs that you’re a Catholic”. Of course, the list wouldn’t be 16 items long if that was the case…

by TRichter on Apr 5, 2007 9:19 PM EDT reply actions

Those tommy bobbleheads are hard to get.

by cos on Apr 6, 2007 12:35 AM EDT reply actions

No disrespect to Jeff, but I’m really enjoying the front page of this site much more since Jeff went on vacation. Fresh voices, fresh angles, fresh everything! When Jeff gets back, I hope he allows you guys to keep on going. This place is so much livelier now.

by CelticPrideInLA on Apr 6, 2007 2:45 AM EDT reply actions

my name is nazzbo and i’m a celticsholic. i prefer to be and will not go to rehab, so i will take it with me to my grave. if they keep doc, i will be in the grave sooner than later.

by nazzbo on Apr 6, 2007 6:11 AM EDT reply actions

i have an almost 2 year old and am seriously thinking of using number 8 of the 16 signs. What a great idea. The TP can be a tommy point and a reminder to use toilet paper. Ingenious.

by kegmug on Apr 6, 2007 6:42 AM EDT reply actions

TripleOT—Your mention of Wally Pipp brings up a controversial subject. Doc is often criticized for keeping good players on the bench and only discovering them when he is forced to use them because of injury to another player. To those I say “Wally Pipp” to you.

by TrueGreen on Apr 6, 2007 8:58 AM EDT reply actions