It was kind of strange to see "Star-Spangles Banner" singer Jim Cornelison without his usual tux belting out the song. And then there was the United Center yelling and cheering during the song by a million plus people.
They had a montage of the 16 games the Hawks won in the playoffs in order to get the Stanley Cup. Neither Liz or I could remember who the Hawks played first those six weeks ago. Turns out it was the Minnesota Wild. Then, that real hard series against Detroit when, at one point the Hawks were down three games to one, but won those last ones. Then, it was last year's winners, the LA Kings and then the previous Cup winners, the Bruins.
Team owner Rocky Wirtz got up and said he had to give his speech in one minute and 17 seconds, a real magic number around here as in the last game, with the Hawks down 2-1 with just that amount of time remaining, the Hawks scored twice in 17 seconds then held on to win it all.
There was no sitting whatsoever in Grant Park for the whole thing. Glad I wasn't there as my feet would be hurting, especially after the walk from Union Station there.
Governor Pat Quinn was roundly booed when he said a few words. Mayor Emmanuel was up and down so fast there wasn't much chance for him to get booed.
Not Through Yet. --RoadDog
POLICE COMMENTS TO PERPS: Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that's the speed of the bullet chasing you.
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Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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