That was quite a reaction in Boston to the Super Bowl victory of the New England Patriots. Fans there overturned six cars, lit garbage on fire in the streets, and vandalized a television van, the Associated Press reports from Beantown. An allegedly drunk driver in a sport utility vehicle drove into a crowd and killed a 21-year-old. We don’t recall any such violence attending the many Yankee World Series championships here in New York. It may show that New York’s police are better at keeping order and that New York’s fans are better behaved than the ones in Boston.

Well, it’s a good thing the Red Sox haven’t won a World Series lately — we’d hate to see how the Boston brutes would respond. Certain Bostonians like to pretend that New Yorkers are loud and aggressive, while the Bostonians are stiff and withdrawn. The Super Bowl riot should put that stereotype to rest for good.

No one would say that a riot is never called for in Boston. There was a time there when Sons of Liberty rallied for such patriotic causes as resisting taxation without representation. But to take to the streets in violence over a victory in football?

Clearly, Boston hasn’t seen much excitement lately. It’s enough to make one wonder whether the appropriate security measures are in place for the Democratic National Convention scheduled for this summer in Boston. If the Democrats were smart, they’d rethink their plans and have their convention here in New York, a city that knows how to handle victories with class.