Who said boston strong

And better yet—does any of that matter? Three of the top five search terms in this time were related to T-shirts—and for good reason. The optics, Dobens says, would have run contrary to their mission. And we still live by that to this day. Neither one of us have ever profited off those shirts. Spotted in Logan Airport. Two coffee companies, Meahuna Coffee of Tewksbury and the New England Coffee Company, filed similar applications for their wares in the following weeks.

Dobens was a student at Boston's Emerson College when he and fellow student Nicholas Reynolds decided to create T-shirts to help raise money for victims in the hours after the terror attack. Inspired by cyclist Lance Armstrong's Livestrong cancer foundation and the U. They cut it down simply to Boston Strong and printed it out in bold, yellow letters on blue T-shirts — the colors of the Boston Marathon. In the years since, it has been used after mass shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida; a country music festival in Las Vegas; and the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, among others.

Curtis Clough says he got the phrase from his late dad, Robert Clough, a traveling salesman who said when work took him to Boston, the people there always treated him well. They'd be willing to help at any cost. When the bombing at the marathon took place, Clough, superintendent of Strasburg-Franklin Local Schools, recalled his father using the phrase "Boston Strong" and decided it was fitting.

There has been debate as to who was the first to use Boston Strong. It was an incredible moment. It really was. Julius Genachowski was working from his home in Washington, D. Rather than waiting until Monday to make a statement, Genachowski fired off a tweet -- "David Ortiz spoke from the heart at today's Red Sox game.

Those lines about 'our uniforms don't say Red Sox, they say Boston,' and 'this is our f city,' that was brilliant. To censor that would be like censoring the world's greatest writer. He nailed it. Ortiz's comments served as the keynote for an emotional day in which Jonny Gomes flexed after sliding into second base on a pinch-hit double and Daniel Nava belted a decisive three-run homer in the eighth inning against the Kansas City Royals. The Red Sox played a prominent role in helping the city heal.

They hung a jersey with the "" area code in the dugout during games, rallied around the "Boston Strong" mantra, and after winning the World Series, paused during the victory parade to place the trophy along the Marathon finish line on Boylston Street.

But it was Ortiz, as always, who made the most indelible mark in Boston's recovery, a show of strength that President Obama recently called "one of the proudest moments of my presidency. Said Napoli: "It was so perfect -- and so David. He's this big, strong guy, but he has a big heart and he's a teddy bear, too.

Coming from him, I think it comforted everyone, even us in the clubhouse, because he's a guy that everyone looks up to, idolizes. I still get the chills thinking about it. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. Ortiz's finest moment with the Red Sox wasn't at the plate. Boston Red Sox.