Ethel showing her love for Larry Bird, and humoring my older brother by flipping off the camera. Photo has to be nearly 10 years old.
My grandmother loved Christmas, her grandsons(my two brothers and myself), and the Celtics. I wanted to take the opportunity to acknowledge the passing of one of the most important people in my life, my grandmother Ethel last February. Christmas was her favorite, and we would always have to wait at the house til she arrived before we could open any presents. She is one of those people who really truly enjoyed the spirit of Christmas.
She was always super supportive of anything myself or my brothers were up to. Its no exaggeration to say it was a rare occasion when I saw her not wearing her red Peg Leg Eagle shirt the last couple years. When we printed our Celtics shirt earlier this year it was very much so in tribute to my grandmother and her love of the classic Celtics teams. I could go on an on about her passion for the Celtics of old, and how she would stay up and watch/listen to all the games on the tv/radio, read countless biographies of the players, even wrote in to a newspaper writer telling him it was wrong he didn't mention classic Celtics announcer Johnny Most in his article about the Celtic greats. She even refused to use Philadelphia brand cream cheese, because she felt at the time the 76'ers were rivals with the Celtics they were a bunch of dirty players.
Love you gram, you are dearly missed. No one could ask for a better grandmother.
"Havlicek stole the ball!"
