Over the past few years the hardreading staff has dutifully chronicled the staggering ad-vantage the Boston Globe has in selling newspaper ads in this town, but today’s edition is downright knee-buckling.
Say hello to the Globe’s 28-page Special Commemorative Section.
Grand Stand is chockablock with ads like this one:
And this one:
And this one:
(The hardshopping staff never heard of Big Y, but man, they gotta lotta stores.)
And there are a whole lot more ads where they came from.
Crosstown at the Boston Herald, meanwhile, the thirsty local tabloid has no commemorative section, just this:
And this:
That’s just sad.
That is one UGLY mug.
You talkin’ about Rob Gronkowski?