Lifelong Boston Red Sox fan? Why not be incased in a BoSox logo when you’re sleeping six-feet under, too?
Yes, the officially licensed Red Sox casket has arrived. The team logo is embroidered on the soft velvet of the lining and pillow, each of which is as white as a home uniform on Opening Day. The logo also appears on the exterior of the casket, which is made of high-gloss 18-gauge steel accented with baseball bat-style wood, tassels, and polished chrome – more Cadillac than bullpen car, headed for the hereafter.
“It’s really a beautiful thing,” said Dan Biggins, 28, co-director of Magoun-Biggins Funeral Home in Rockland, which recently took delivery of the first Sox casket, serial number 0001. “It’s really neat.”
“That’s very respectable, especially up against the Vatican,” said Clint Mytych, 27, founder and president of Eternal Image. Through the end of the company’s fiscal second quarter in 2008, about 330 Yankees urns had been sold, and about 325 for the Sox, Mytych said.
It’s a really beautiful thing? There are some sick people in this world.
I come from a family that has both Yankee and Red Sox supporters in it. Knowing some of my family members, they would probably try to bury the Red Sox fans in a Yankee casket just to piss them off in the afterlife.
