Thursday, June 10, 2010
CUE CHELSEA DAGGER: Congratulations to the Hawks, now Kaner can get a decent haircut. Loved JR getting choked up during the post game. There's a long list of great players who donned the Chicago sweater and never got to hoist the Cup. That's one improbably long championship drought done. Pressure is on you Cubs.
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I, assuming HeatherK did not grow a playoff beard, have just shaved mine as the sole Chicago playoff beard wearer here (I think).
ReplyDeleteIT FEELS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.
And now, I have finally experience the playoff quad in my lifetime; an NFL championship, 6 NBA championships, one NHL championship and (of course) a World Series win. Pardon me while I know collapse.
Woooooooooooooo! I was living in Chicago for the Sox's '05 win, but this one's more fun: everyone's on the same side. Hooray for the 'Hawks!
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that song is about a sexy transvestite.
ReplyDeleteI did not in fact grow one, but I bet Marsha didn't either. I did however enjoy the honking out my window last night and am trying to figure out how to take a break long enough to go see the parade tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteMy office is at Michigan and Lake; I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to get in here! But we will have a perfect vantage point...now, to find a ticker-tape machine of our very own.
ReplyDeleteNo playoff beard for me. I'm a low-level hockey fan - I like the game, and grew up an Islanders fan in the 80s, but I'm very happy to root for the Blackhawks, and I love playoff hockey.
ReplyDeleteHeather, given that I root for more than one team in some sports, I too have been very lucky - I've experienced 6 NBA championships, 6 Stanley Cups, and 5 World Series. (Don't care about football.) Works for me!
The lead singer's wife is (apparently) a well-known burlesque dancer in Europe, so I wouldn't be horribly surprised.
ReplyDeleteI'm at Jackson and Dearborn myself, so I think there will be a bit of a stroll tomorrow morning. :)
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of witty. The singer can't tell whether the person is a man or a woman, but it doesn't seem like he much cares.
ReplyDeleteThe total crap part is as receptionist, that means I need to get a coconspirator willing to sit at the front desk, answer the phone, and not rat me out to anyone. And at Jackson and Wabash my 'break' might be noticeably long.
ReplyDeleteLet the record reflect, that Jeremy Roenick received a lot of money from the Philadelphia Flyers with the express purpose of hoisting the cup, and failed to do so. His getting choked up over the outcome of a series between two different, long-suffering teams for whom he played was, while genuine, a dick move.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the Blackhawks. I do not recall seeing a single human wearing a jersey for that team in 3 years in Chi-town. Hopefully, the successful cup run will make it into a city as passionate about its hockey as Anaheim, CA.
BTW, checking Wiki I see the current droughts for the major sports in the US are:
ReplyDeleteMLB: The Cubs, easily, at 102 years (and haven't been in a World Series since, as Steve Goodman put it, "the year we dropped the Bomb on Japan"). Someone on Wiki got a nice bit of snark in on this:
"Note that even if the Cubs had won the 1945 World Series, they would still hold the longest drought in baseball, as the next closest team to them is the Cleveland Indians, who last won the World Series in 1948. It is this reason that the Cubs are often considered the worst professional sports team in all of North American sports."
NBA: The Sacramento Kings, who haven't even been to the finals since 1951 when they were the Rochester Royals (and have been located in Cincinatti, Kansas City and Omaha since then).
NFL: The Arizona Cardinals, who haven't won the championship since 1947 when they were the Chicago Cardinals (interestingly, beating the Philadelphia Eagles).
NHL: The Toronto Maple Leafs, who have not been to the finals since 1967.
If only there were a "love" button.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the 'Hawks. That's all I got.
I feel like I've seen a million people wearing Blackhawks jerseys over the last 15 years. It's possible (not certain) they were all in LA, but still.
ReplyDeleteI think it's rediculous to interview players the moment after winning a championship. Those breathless gasps of "the whole team came together and.... I knew we could do it and.... they were a good team and.... thanks!"
ReplyDeleteBut every once in a while the camera catches someone yelling something completely innapropriate for live tv, such as last night: "We won the f*ck!ng cup, man!"
I feel the need to link to one of my favorite Wikipedia pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditions_and_anecdotes_associated_with_the_Stanley_Cup
ReplyDeleteYears ago I wrote a story for Inside Sports about a pair of guys who devised a futility index, which not only took into account the number of years since a team had won a championship but how many teams were in the league for every year they failed to win a title. Wish I could dig it up because it was a really interesting way to measure just how futile the teams were.
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