The Celtics are the sixth franchise to grab the No1 seed in the East in the past six seasons – Chicago did in 2012, followed by Miami, Indiana, Atlanta, Cleveland and now Boston. “The knowledge of the game and what it looked like and how it was played was so strange and foreign to Americans in so many ways. He had no reservations about playing in what he called “the wild league” because of the lack of Fifa affiliation. In 2001 they were back in the AFC championship game and Super Bowl champions again after the 2005 season.