The photo includes Grantland editor Bill Simmons, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and – in the background, there – ESPN “Pardon the Interruption” cohost Tony Korneisher. It hit Twitter at 10:26 p.m. Sunday night, courtesy of Boston band the Mighty Mighty BossToneS, after cornerback Malcolm Butler clinched the New England Patriots’ 28-24 win over the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX.

The BossToneS, the ska-core band founded “when Cambridge, Massachusetts high school chums Joe Gittleman, Nate Albert and Ben Carr approached Dicky Barrett about fronting their new band,” in 1984, released nine albums in a span of 27 years. The group’s most recent album, “The Magic of Youth,” was released on December 6, 2011.

At the time the BossToneS posted the photo of Simmons, “Will Hunting,” and “Chucky” (and Kornheiser), the band had 19,000 followers; their main handle had posted just over 1,000 tweets; and the group was following a little over 1,500 other users.

To put that in perspective: Tom O’Keefe, a.k.a. @BostonTweet, has 141,000 followers; he follows more than 4,800 people; and he’s tweeted 25,000 times. So when @BostonTweet tweets, he reaches a much larger audience than the BossToneS.

(Take this for example. Just after 10 p.m., BostonTweet posted the following message, which was retweeted nearly 1,000 and favorited more than 600 times as of 2 a.m. Monday morning.)

About 20 minutes later, just before 10:30 p.m., the BossToneS dropped that gem at the top. It’s only – “only”– been retweeted 384 times and favorited 542 times, as of this writing. Boston Fire was one of those retweets.

Here it is again. Because Tony Kornheiser.


As of 2:18 a.m. Monday morning, no one seems interested in the Simmons-is-celebrating-the-Pats’-Super-Bowl-with-Damon-and-Affleck angle, or – The Might Mighty BossToneS??!. Tony Kornheiser!?! But Richard Giles wants the BossToneS to play some shows across the pond.

“There’s a lot to digest here,” NESN’s Darren Hartwell writes. (NESN’s story has about 2,000 Facebook “Likes” and 26 retweets as of this writing, and it’s unclear how many others find the Mighty Mighty BossToneS angle as fascinating as at least two reporters do.)

That’s just how good Super Bowl XLIX was Sunday night, February 1, 2015. Bostonians, it seems, are much too busy celebrating this image:

In a photo tweeted by the Mighty Mighty BossToneS, photobombed by ESPN's Tony Kornheiser.
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