Daily Inspiration Quote by Curt Gowdy

Nostalgia can be a subtle flex, and Curt Gowdy delivers it with the easy authority of someone who watched Boston before it became a national brand. “It wasn’t like it is now” is the quiet thesis: today’s Fenway mythology is louder, slicker, more curated. Gowdy isn’t denying the current devotion; he’s insisting that the city’s loyalty didn’t start when the team got good, got marketable, or got endlessly content-farmed.

The key move is his attention to the unglamorous details: “Thursday afternoon games” and “25,000 fans.” That’s not postcard baseball. It’s people skipping work, catching streetcars, rearranging ordinary life for a team that, by his implication, didn’t always give them a reason. By specifying “the types of teams we had,” Gowdy nods at eras when the Red Sox weren’t a perennial event but a sometimes-frustrating habit. The subtext lands like a gentle correction to modern gatekeeping: don’t confuse recent success or media saturation with the origin of the fanbase’s identity.

Calling it “remarkable” does two jobs. It praises the crowd, but it also elevates the act of showing up into a civic achievement, a kind of Bostonian proof-of-work. The final line, “This has always been a great Red Sox city,” isn’t just boosterism. It’s a claim about continuity: the relationship between team and town is older than championships, older than hype, and sturdier than whatever “now” happens to be.