Championship Blackout

HAWKS WIN!!!!

One more game was all the Blackhawks needed to clinch the Cup O'Lord Stanley. And clinch they did, but that is neither here or nor there...yet. My brother drove me to the bar since he had to work so that I could drink and it took us over 2 hours to get there. When we arrived a fellow coworker, I will call her Mrs. South side for this particular blog, had already secured a table for our group. It was odd because everyone there was camped out saving seats. So anyways moving on to the craziness. Imagine this, the bar is packed, there is no way to get in or out of the bar at this point. During the intermission period you could sneak outside and grab some air, but you better had gotten you ass back in before the drop of the puck. So with tons of cards being held by our waitresses and drinks flowing, and the hawks up by one goal the end of the second period starts to come to a close and then shit went downhill fast.....

For some reason the power decided to go out.I am talking power generators had to come and back up the lighting system. No computers worked, no tvs on, people going crazy, and every person running around crazy trying to get the power back on! once it became clear they were not coming back on at a soon enough time people started leaving. How intent are the fans on watching the game? They left their cards and ran to other bars to watch. Once everyone was cleared out and the electrician was working on the fuse, we got out or cooks TV (complete with rabbit ears) and watched the game. Somehow this master electrician got the tvs on at the right time. We watched the game go into overtime and with hearts racing and fists clenched we watched that final score come alive on the tv with the HAWKS WINNING THE CHAMPIONSHIP. People had started filling the bar back in after this point. The entire city of Chicago was going nuts, horns beeping, people flooding Clark street, every type of Blackhawks song being played, I am telling you it was one of the most thrilling and exciting times to experience. We watched the team pass the cup to each other and then my brother text me (he is a huge hawks fan and has been looking forward to this for lord knows how long) We left Chicago which was tough enough because we wanted to join the party, but as an older sister we ran to meet him at his bar.

I do not know what happened at the bar after we left but I saw people going back there and I am sure they recovered some of the loss. Now it is time to decide if i want to go to the parade, it may be a once in a life time opportunity but at the same time it is early and would take me 3 hours to get to the city! SO yes the bar blacked out and we didn't know what was going on for awhile, but the Hawks in an incredible and also delayed response (no one saw the final goal except for Kane) are bringing home the cup. Needless to say Chicago is gonna be nuts for hockey for awhile!!! And I think Schoolyard might get an updates system for our tvs?