By far the best time I've ever had at Wrigley Field came on New Years Day involved the Blackhawks playing the Red Wings in an outdoor hockey game.
Two layers of socks. Thermals under the jeans. T shirt under a hoodie under a Blackhawk jersey under a ski jacket. Surrounded by 40,000+ hockey fans. All that made it quite warm in the Frozen Confines (and I didn't even have a drop of whiskey from Al Pitcher's bar-noculars, although i HAVE to find me a pair of those!). The whole time walking around the ballpark before the game, all of us looked at each other in disbelief that the whole thing was happening. It was surreal. It was silly. It was fantastic.
Blackhawks jumped out to a 3-1 lead at the end of the 1st period, but then Detroit took over in the 2nd & 3rd, scoring 5 unanswered and ended up beating the Hawks 6-4. But as any Cub fan can tell you, it's still possible to have a good time at Wrigley even if your team loses. I just wish it wasn't against f#ck!n' Detroit. And luckily the Blackhawks don't have to play there again so they won't make a habit out of it.
But now it's over. Time to move on and get back to real hockey. And back to winning games and get into the playoffs. LET'S GO HAWKS!
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