{"id":1497,"date":"2008-08-23T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/escorting-chelios-and-the-stanley-cup\/"},"modified":"2008-08-23T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T15:58:00","slug":"escorting-chelios-and-the-stanley-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/escorting-chelios-and-the-stanley-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Escorting Chelios and the Stanley Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On my way to the gym, I saw a massive crowd waiting-out a minor rain delay at Murphy’s. There was a shiny, enormous bowl popping out of the crowd. My natural reaction was to think that some ‘tool’ was using this as a beer trough; you see a lot of dumb-ass things outside of Wrigley. But, when I got close enough to see that the “tool” carrying the shiny bowl was actually Chris Chelios and the Stanley Cup, I went into mass panic.<\/div>\n

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I didn’t have my cell phone (Murphy’s Law and pun intended) to call Andrew in the house. So, I ran a few doors down to ring the bell. I screamed into the intercom: “come downstairs…bring the camera.” We sprinted back to the corner to see Chelios walking in to the stadium with the Cup. I cut in front of him and Andrew asks: \u201cCan we get a picture with the Cup?\u201d<\/div>\n

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Chelios replied:\u201cCan\u2019t. Need to get in for the first pitch\u201d Yet, he let me escort him to the entrance of Wrigley. If you notice from the pictures, I am walking in front of the security guards from the Chicago Police Department.<\/div>\n

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To get these picture, Andrew and I almost stepped on three puppies. I am not sure why their owner thought it was a good idea to walk them at the Bleacher entrance, but that is the risk she assumed.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I felt mildly guilty until an old friend from high school said that a picture with Chelios and the Cup is probably worth kicking five puppies…at least.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On my way to the gym, I saw a massive crowd waiting-out a minor rain delay at Murphy’s. There was a shiny, enormous bowl popping out of the crowd. My natural reaction was to think that some ‘tool’ was using this as a beer trough; you see a lot of dumb-ass things outside of Wrigley. But, when I got close enough to see that the “tool” carrying the shiny bowl was actually Chris Chelios and the Stanley Cup, I went into mass panic.<\/p>\n

I didn’t have my cell …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[36,38,39,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}