Boston.com's 2008 MOST-WATCHED VIDEOS
We've got a bodybuilding firefighter, discoing Celts fans -- and a car that may fly! That's just a taste. Scroll down to watch some of top videos from Boston.com this year.
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Bob Ryan asks C's fans to get up and boogie like the 70s dancer featured on the Garden's Jumbotron. Many fans groove to their best.
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With his sports jacket and tie, Brady says: "We have to just regroup and come back stronger next year.'' (Sigh.) Indeed, next year, Tom.
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The Celtics seldom had happier days. Catch the confetti and the highlights of the championship parade with NECN, albeit with no kilted Papelbon and Dropkick Murphys.
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TMZ may never win a Pulitzer or an Emmy, but this crude video had a certain popular appeal.
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Albert Arroyo, getting paid while on disability for the Boston Fire Department, competed in strenuous bodybuilding events during that time. The disclosure prompted outrage and an investigation. Arroyo was jailed twice for violating a separate restraining order.
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One Saturday morning, our senior US senator was taken to MGH, the start of what would become a highly publicized fight against brain cancer.
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A post-homecoming high-school party west of Boston led to tragedy.
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An Innovation Economy video on the effort to create a vehicle that can really avoid an Expressway traffic jam.
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Globe journalists Patty Wen and Scott LaPierre, in China for the Olympics, found a slum that officials erected walls to hide from the foreign media.
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It was nearly dinnertime when one Green Line train rammed into another, killing one person.
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The misery and disrepair inside a privately funded housing project that Barack Obama had supported.
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"Season's over. Job is done.'' From the Garden parquet, Ryan gives that overview of the blowout that clinched another trophy for Titletown.
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His 8-year-old son had died at a gun club event that has led to several criminal charges.
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Yes, the results we wanted. Craved for. Expected. And didn't get. After our pre-Super Bowl simulation, who says reality is better than a video game?
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Do we believe in the cult of Steve Jobs? Watch this and decide for yourself.
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The fiery tanker truck crash happened near Chicopee, but the images went nationwide.
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After a championship, the Celtics looked to the future. And so did we.
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When Mr. Shaughnessy says it's time to go, sometimes it really is.
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