Chicago: We Take Our Sports Seriously

By | June 3, 2010 | Baseball, Football, Hockey | 8 Comments

If you’re ever in Chicago you can walk into any number of the souvenir shops along Michigan Avenue and find a popular Chicago shirt. It pretty much sums up the city to a tee (pun intended). It says “Chicago: A Drinking City with a Sports Problem.” And every word of it is true.

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We love our sports teams. We drink when they lose, we drink when they win. And when one of our hometown teams makes it to the championship, the whole city celebrates.

And how do we celebrate? We dress up our many statues around the city.

Our standby is the lions outside the Art Institute of Chicago. They get dressed up for everyone.

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We also dress up the famous Picasso statue in Daley Plaza.

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And then depending on which team is on a championship run, we get creative.

horse socks

hawks dino

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Please tell me, is this normal in any other city?

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Kristabella is a Chicago blogger with a drinking problem. She writes here.

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Kristin, who also answers to Kristabella or “Hey! Drunk Girl!”, is a reformed band geek with an amazing ability to drink most people under the table. She honed her drinking skills as a student at Arizona State and is proud to be one of the few people who not only graduated from ASU, but graduated in four years. After working in the sports information office at ASU, which included a Rose Bowl appearance and a point-shaving scandal, Kristin landed a job with the San Francisco 49ers and spent six years living out a life-long fantasy of working in professional sports and getting sexually harassed every day. She now lives in Chicago and yells at athletes through the TV set. They can totally hear her. You can read her other inane ramblings at her personal blog, Kristabella: Full of Snark Since 1977, where she talks about her exciting life as a spinster with two cats and a fascination for Bacon.

8 Replies to Chicago: We Take Our Sports Seriously

  1. samantha jo campen says:
    June 3, 2010 at 3:43 pm

    I love our city so hard.

  2. GoonSquadSarah says:
    June 3, 2010 at 4:36 pm

    No.

    Note to self: Move to Chicago.

  3. GoonSquadSarah says:
    June 3, 2010 at 4:36 pm

    That last picture is my favorite.

  4. Laurie says:
    June 3, 2010 at 10:03 pm

    I love the last one too. I support a similar movement here at the monuments next year with Caps gear.

  5. Amy says:
    June 3, 2010 at 11:42 pm

    I love the last one too. I support a similar movement here at the monuments next year with Caps gear.

  6. mrs chaos says:
    June 4, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    Pretty much every other city is doing it wrong.

  7. Rachel says:
    June 14, 2010 at 9:17 pm

    I’ve missed Chicago so much since last week’s big win…

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