Blackhawks draw nearly 2 mil for ticker-tape parade!
Written by The Go-To-Man Mattie T. on June 12, 2010
In a day to forever remember, the Chicago Blackhawks put on a gigantic Championship Parade rally downtown Friday, as nearly 2 million people showed up to celebrate the team’s first Stanley Cup win in 49 years despite temps that reached from the mid-to-high 80’s.
It featured some funny moments, which ranged from Kris Versteeg’s rap to Duncan Keith’s lobbying for a new dentist (Keith lost seven teeth in the Blackhawks’ Game 4 win over San Jose, which sent them to the Stanley Cup Finals).
Game 6 hero Patrick Kane also had something to say that had some relation to his much-publicized cab-driver arrest incident last summer in Buffalo, New York:
“Just for you guys, for all the cab drivers out there, I love you.”
It easily surpassed the crowd that came out for the White Sox’s victory parade in 2005, while playoff MVP Jonathan Toews acknowledged that “I didn’t know there were this many people in Chicago.”
The parade also featured Blackhawks legends such as Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita & Tony Esposito, who were on the double-decker buses with the players as they left from the United Center en route to downtown Chicago.
49-year old Craig Marr, a longtime Blackhawks fan summed it up best with this following quote:
“As a longtime Blackhawk fan, you know, I’m thrilled that there’s all these people now. I mean I know some people are like well, you just jumped on the bandwagon but there’s plenty of room on the bandwagon. This is a whole other generation of Hawk fans and I think that’s fantastic.”
