Boston 2024 releases promotional video: Believe in Boston - Do you like it? I don't.

Agreed. That was awful.

Agree that it's not good. Maybe you'd like one of these better?

http://youtu.be/IiNItLCJ1jI

http://youtu.be/WkuWUf2BH_I

rojo wrote:

Tommy Amaker of Harvard? Really. He was born in VA. At least give me an A list coach like Bill Belicheck (yes I know americna football isn't in the Olympics).

To most people outside of the US, VA and MA are basically the same thing

Boston is a walkable city? says who? Tell that to someone living in Brighton that wants to see their gf in Southie. Sure it is walkable if you only consider the area from the Back Bay to the harbor.

"There's something special about a quarter mile college students concentrated in one small area" - creeeeep show

Have they paid for the Big Dig yet? Liberal Boston and Massachusetts are known for their boondoggle projects that line the pockets of union workers and fat-cat developers while leaving the middle class suburbs with increasing taxes for decades.

I want to see the Olympics up-close just like everyone else on here - but Boston is an old American city that has already been built.out. Any empty lot in the seaport district or an old railroad yard in Charlestown should be developed for its highest-and-best *long-term* use - not a three week sporting event - the land is just too scarce.

The process thus far also reeks of typical Massachusetts crony politics (no public forum on the proposal, majority of the board/advisers are developers, "trust in us" BS). If this goes through, some 1%'ers failed land-lot bet will be "bailed out" as a "prime location" for some over priced aquatics center while my liberals friends cheer on the interpretive dancing competition.

Elite Hobby Jogger wrote:

Agree that it's not good. Maybe you'd like one of these better?

http://youtu.be/IiNItLCJ1jIhttp://youtu.be/WkuWUf2BH_I

Both of those are excellent!

I for one (clearly a Boston resident) would love if we could host the Olympics.

"Hipsters of all stripes have decided Boston is a good place to be."

If I heard that line without context I would just assume it was satire.

krispy kremlin wrote:

Liberal Boston and Massachusetts are known for their boondoggle projects that line the pockets of union workers and fat-cat developers while leaving the middle class suburbs with increasing taxes for decades.

You mean that liberal state with about one-third of their voters registered as Democrats? The state that just elected another Republican governor? That liberal state?

gretyurd wrote:

krispy kremlin wrote:

Liberal Boston and Massachusetts are known for their boondoggle projects that line the pockets of union workers and fat-cat developers while leaving the middle class suburbs with increasing taxes for decades.

You mean that liberal state with about one-third of their voters registered as Democrats? The state that just elected another Republican governor? That liberal state?

You are out of your mind if you think Mass isn't liberal overall. In general, the Republicans that get elected in Mass would be considered Democrats in the majority of the country.

gretyurd wrote:

krispy kremlin wrote:

Liberal Boston and Massachusetts are known for their boondoggle projects that line the pockets of union workers and fat-cat developers while leaving the middle class suburbs with increasing taxes for decades.

You mean that liberal state with about one-third of their voters registered as Democrats? The state that just elected another Republican governor? That liberal state?

Ted Kennedy, Elizabeth Warren, Barney Frank, John Kerry, Deval Patrick

Every so often even the bluest of the blue realize they need someone with some level of responsibility to come in and clean house.

This house:

For all you wicked sma't Mass/Bos liberals, why do you let your elected official run roughshod over the average, middle class taxpayer? A Boston Olympics would be a jackpot for rich developers given MA's lack of accountability among its politician-class.

Very weak.

Obviously they were trying to make a point about not having a single Bostonian in the video. We get it, it is a diverse city, but the voices from Berklee, MIT and Harvard (why 2 Harvard guys?) was simply awkward. It looked like a campus recruiting video. None of these people were capable of bringing the city alive in their comments and the images were disappointing. Not a professional effort.

Boston fully deserves a look for a Summer Games, it is a first class city with a rich athletic history and unusually spirited people; great potential hosts. However, as a North Shore native, I do not want to see Boston get bogged down over a ridiculous infrastructure for the games which it does not need. Olympic Stadiums have become giant toilets. I would like to see them create a bid which can be paid for and absorbed into the community and if they don't win, who cares.

If a rich country like Norway (specifically, Oslo) pulled out of bidding for the Winter Olympics due to the costs resulting from the outrageous requirements, expectations, and recommendations the IOC asked of its potential host cities, I am surprised to see any potential host city with a democratically elected government still bidding to stage the Games.

Some of the requirements Oslo found out they had to provide:

1. The IOC hotel must be rated at either four or five stars (a higher rating than any other client group at the Olympics).

2. The IOC hotel must offer: "A full international hot breakfast buffet for up to two occupants for each room (included in the room rate), catering services for IOC events, and 24-hour room service.

3. The hotel must have a members lounge to be used exclusively by IOC members. If there is no members lounge, the hotel has to install one at its own cost.

4. Doves must be released after the parade of athletes but before the head of the Olympic organizing committee speaks at the Opening Ceremony.

5. Signs around the city telling people where to go should be in sans-serif font and "be conceived as part of the Look."

6. "100% security screening of passengers and their baggage is required prior to entry into the IOC Hotel." This is not a requirement at other hotels.

7. The venues must be designed such that IOC members and guests are "segregated from press and broadcast" personnel.

8. Every IOC member gets a plus-one at the Opening Ceremony.

9. IOC members must be greeted by "smiling, positive, and welcoming staff" at the airport.

10. Starting two weeks before the Olympics, no street vendors are allowed.

11. IOC meeting rooms must be air-conditioned to 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit).

12. "The IOC Hotel must make available at no extra cost, existing sport facilities such as fitness facilities, swimming pool and sauna facilities to all IOC Hotel guests and IOC staff members."

13. Private cars must be provided to select IOC members at the expense of the Olympic organizing committee.

14. Volunteer drivers for IOC members must speak fluent English or French and be available to work up to 10 hours a day for six days a week.

None of that seems unreasonable.

Jar Jar B wrote:

None of that seems unreasonable.

Norwegians don't want to kiss a$$.

krispy kremlin wrote:

gretyurd wrote:

You mean that liberal state with about one-third of their voters registered as Democrats? The state that just elected another Republican governor? That liberal state?

Ted Kennedy, Elizabeth Warren, Barney Frank, John Kerry, Deval Patrick

Ed Brooke, Scott Brown, Mitt Romney, Paul Celucci, Bill Weld, Charlie Baker

You forgot something wrote:

Ed Brooke, Scott Brown, Mitt Romney, Paul Celucci, Bill Weld, Charlie Baker

Please see my previous comment regarding Mass Republicans being far more left leaning than other Republicans around the country.

I watched it. I am not impressed.

Boston is a great city, they should leverage that. Show some of what makes Boston special (freedom trail, the Marathon, NE Patriots, Red Sox, Tea Party,...) but not this boring sh*t.

Regardless, I think the real race is between SF and LA. I can't see the IOC awarding the Olympics to the same city for the third time, so I really think this time it will be SF. It will deliver spectacular pictures - sailing/beach volleyball with the GG bridge in the background. Perfect weather. If they use the SF Marathon course it would be an awesome race, etc. Perfect infrastructure (two airports, subway, bus system), very walkable etc...

Too many talking heads. Needs Southie flavor,perhaps Matt Damon showing the sights but with a nod toward the gritty and real. Also, a few frames with Meb crossing himself as he turns onto Boylston.

Well, someone was impressed...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/01/08/olympic-decision-boston-bid-could-come-thursday/6RHRYSTRGgsIlPImafWgRM/story.html

rojo wrote:

What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE0N5PMUQNQ#t=38

Personally, I think it's a pretty bad video. I don't watch that video and think, "That's what Boston is" or "Yeah, that's awesome let's put the Olympics in Boston." Way too corporate, way too uninspiring and way too flavorless.

Give me some men and women on the street with accents.

Tommy Amaker of Harvard? Really. He was born in VA. At least give me an A list coach like Bill Belicheck (yes I know americna football isn't in the Olympics).

BB was born in Tennessee....