My point was that the scene does a good job of capturing the essence of how we used the term back then. Even having Cliff be the character that said it, and the way he said it, somehow seems right on the money for the times.

I think of it as vaguely lower-class speak or blue collar. It was especially common to use it when talking about Boston sports and Boston sports fans.

Again. The key point is that the term has a long and deep history in the culture and the idea that the term was recently conjured up by the tourist industry is just plain wrong.