It's surprising to read an article that touches on the old Boston hardcore scene without any mention of FSU. For anyone interested in more stories of Boston hardcore and crime, take a glance at http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/punk-rock-fight-clu...

As someone with deep New England roots, it's truly surreal watching a baseball rivalry trump hundreds of years of history. To anyone outside the North, Bostonians have long been the prototypical Yankees. But go to Southie and say that now and you're likely to get a fist in the face.

New Year's Eve, early in the first decade of this century. I'm riding the Red Line home with a bunch of other revelers. One young inebriated gentleman is trying to induce the rest of us to join him in a sports-related chant. "Let's go Red Sox!" he bellows. "Let's go Red Sox!" No one follows his lead. "Let's go Patriots!" he essays. Crickets. One last arrow in his quiver: he begins to chant "Yankees suck! Yankees suck!" By the time he reaches the fourth iteration, the whole car, me included, is shouting along with him.

Fun read. Not sure the author understands the fairly significant difference between punk and hardcore in the late 90s.

I'll always remember seeing Chris Wrenn slinging those shirts in the early 2000's. Those shirts have always been synonymous with Bridge Nine records in my mind.

It later got spun out into it's own thing: http://www.sullysbrand.com/

As a Hamiltonian and fan of the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats, I'm surprised that the Yankees Suck T-shirts aren't even that old. Ticats fans have been chanting Argos Suck and buying T-shirts for what seems like forever. When Redhat's Bob Young bought the team in 2003 he tried to get fans to no longer use the phrase, but eventually gave up. I've also never seen anyone with an Argos Suck T-shirt being booted from the stadium.

As a Bostonian and someone who used to be into the hardcore scene around here, this was an incredible read. I knew nothing about the stories behind those shirts

The artwork for this article is excellent.

As someone who spent many nights outside fenway shelling these shirts (a generation or two after the golden era described in the article), it's great to see some of these legendary stories collected and transcribed.

I think there's enough craziness in the stories I've heard for a decent book or movie.

Really interesting article. Even more interesting is Bridge Nine and FSU being referenced in HN comments.

Fascinating article. The pink hats and the money have made things a little less interesting around the Boston sports scene in the last fifteen years.