When the Blackhawks take the Cup to meet Obama in D.C.

[Maiden]

..................will Blackhawk fans have their own version of the million man march?

 

[roshinaya]

When do they usually visit the White House? Kane apparently got a phone call from Obama when they were taking the team photo in the UC before the parade.

 

[Guest]

[quote name="roshinaya"]When do they usually visit the White House? Kane apparently got a phone call from Obama when they were taking the team photo in the UC before the parade.[/quote]





I'm pretty sure the team recieved a phone call and that Obama invited Q and the team to the White House.

 

[roshinaya]

I was just telling what Kane said in a quick interview with Kustok on CSN before the parade started.

 

[Guest]

I gotcha was just clarifying it.

 

[5Minutes4Fighting]

Our million man march was yesterday, and two million showed.



-5Minutes

 

[Maiden]

[quote name="5Minutes4Fighting"]Our million man march was yesterday, and two million showed.



-5Minutes[/quote]



Alledgedly.................that number has been questioned by a few already.

 

[5Minutes4Fighting]

I actually question it big time. I suspect Chicago qualifies for some federal or state funds for police or clean up for any parade with 2 million in attendance. Had to be some motive to inflate the numbers.



-5Minutes

 

[bookjones]

[quote name="Maiden"]



Alledgedly.................that number has been questioned by a few already.[/quote]



Oh pfft! Who is that "few"? Because the majority of people I've seen snidely questioning the numbers are people online whose asses aren't even from Chicago and thusly have ZERO fucking idea how this town rolls. . .and who likely have some hockey sour grapes against the city. With dumbasss logic like "Chicago proper only has 2.9 million people so you expect me to believe they had 2 million people attend a parade/rally?" without having the faintest clue about the inordinately large amount of goddamn suburbs the city has and therefore how large the actual metropolitan area really is. They see pics of the straight-shot down Michigan to the rally spot and think oh, that's a lot of people but not 2 million without the faintest fucking idea that the parade route had turns and in total wound along for at least 9 city blocks, that people were in the side streets off whatever main street the caravan was on. Do these people even realize that a million freakin' people descend on downtown for a few hrs. on the 3rd of July for the fireworks and then disperse like it's child's play?



For myself, I have NEVER been in anything like that parade's sea of humanity before in my life. NEVER. I was at the Sox parade and thought that was pretty insane and def agree it was over the million people they said it was---I was on a street corner for that and was at least able to be 12 or so ft away from the buses, for the Hawks I was literally hemmed in my standing spot at a street corner and couldn't even get to within 25 or 30 ft of the buses. People were packed on every CTA train I got on in the morning just to get downtown. I just could not believe my eyes as I walked around a fair bit of downtown trying to get to the area I wanted to and once it was over, the amount of people that were dispersing West once the parade passed them by. I eventually watched NHL Live! later that day and even one of the hosts who had been told by an earlier caller that there may be 500-750K people there said he was looking at pics online in the studio and said there had to be at least a million people there an he was just looking at the rally area. I have no reason to doubt the numbers or doubt Metra when they say that 3 times the number of people were coming into the city than on a typical 3rd of July especially since school is out for kids. If the Sox could draw 1+ million in a town with divided baseball loyalties then I have no reason to believe that the Hawks couldn't draw double that amount when you throw in so many potential school kids. I've looked at footage of Pittsburgh's just under 500K for the Penguins parade/rally and no one can likely convince me that this "one for the ages" celebration in Chicago couldn't have easily been 3x or 4x that.

 

[Maiden]

I suppose the professor from the University of Chicago doesnt qualify.

I'll take your word for it over his, no problem.

 

[roshinaya]

everything is some huge conspiracy with you guys.

 

[Sathington Willoby]

I guess now that we've won the cup, we're running low on things to argue over. I like having the problem of not being able to figure out how many MILLIONS showed up to the victory parade. LOL...

 

[bookjones]

[quote name="Maiden"]I suppose the professor from the University of Chicago doesnt qualify.

I'll take your word for it over his, no problem.[/quote]



Uhh, I never implored you to take my word for it---I merely stated why I feel that folks who can't believe there were 1.5 - 2 million people there are full of it based on their lame arguments I have read online on various forums and websites. You wanna believe a Univ. of Chicago professor who admits that he was basing his statistical model off an aerial picture of 1/3 of a city block of the parade route that's your right. Which 1/3rd of a block? Who knows. At what point---after the caravan had passed? Before? WhoTF knows about this guy's picture. The same professor who's using the ultra-facile and ultimately patronizing "Chicago has 3 million residents and there's no way 2/3's of them showed up" argument as I have seen others use online? This same Dept. head at U. of C. feels there were maybe 400K at the whole event---LMAO! Yeah, sure. I have no especial reason to believe him and his one-block photo over the the Mayor's Office of Special Events, the CPD, Metra, the CTA, or the OEMC and my own experience.

 

[bookjones]

[quote name="Sathington Willoby"]I guess now that we've won the cup, we're running low on things to argue over. I like having the problem of not being able to figure out how many MILLIONS showed up to the victory parade. LOL...[/quote]



RIGHT ON man! The day and celebration were AWESOME! Period.

 

[Razzberry]

I think it's fair to say that the estimate of 2 million is almost certainly rounded up rather than rounded down, although by how much is up for debate.