Blackhawks Parade and Rally-- Part 1: Two Stanley Cups In Four Years

We watched this on Chicago's own WGN TV back on June 28th, a Friday. We even thought about going down for it, but decided not because of all the people, people and more people going down for it. As it turned out, we could have gone to Chicago on the train and seen the parade at some point before it got to Grant Park on Route 66.

The players were on doubledecker busses and sitting 3 or 4 across at the back of each one. A lot of other people were on each one as well: family, friends and other Blackhawk personnel. We sure got to know them through those four different teams they played on the way to the Stanley Cup, and of course. the Stanley Cup was prominent as well as all the other award hardware the team won.

Some people had arrived as early as 4 or 5 in the morning according tio the announcers and they also wondered why all four of Chicago's teams couldn't be like the Hawks. Two Cups in four years.

Well, the Bulls won the NBA Championship six times in eight years in the 1990s (3 straight times and then another three straight) and the Sox won the World Series in 2005. Da Bears in '85 and, well, the Cubs....

A Great Cap to a Great Season. --RoadDog