Ex-professional footballer Bobby Convey

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Lifes too short for hating. One race at the end of the day-- the human race. I don't buy into this nationality garbage.

Dr. King would've been touched by, if not the sentiment, then at least by the keen sense of irony

I'll cop to being an exceptionalist --one need look no farther than my <<--location, and, while here, have a look @ this

[LUX]

Lifes too short for hating. One race at the end of the day-- the human race. I don't buy into this nationality garbage.

lmao.

You're "special", finerain.

[FiNeRaIn]

You should take a piece of my pie LUX, maybe you'd be more chilled and take comments on HNA less seriosuly.

[PremAddict]

when you hail from the land of the world champs at just about everything else

Like what?

baseball (the WORLD series)??...american football??...errrmm quick running??...winning wars in foreign countries?

Ryder Cup 2008.

[FiNeRaIn]

Ryder Cup 2008.

Europe and the US does not equal " world" im afraid.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Let the technicaLOLities fly!

[FiNeRaIn]

Let the technicaLOLities fly!

Stop perving on those coeds chi!!!!!!!

[RoyalChicagoFC]

ALOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ark Royal]

I do love Chi's erudite ramblings on this forum!

Anyway Chi, I really did enjoy my sojourn to the South Side of Windy, which is really grim in a post-nuclear, Blade Runner-type way. It really is not Wrigleyville and it really does smell. Notwithstanding that, I commented to my kind host that if I lived a little bit closer than twenty miles west of Milwaukee, I would be a more frequent visitor to Toyota. Despite the standard, it was just great to see some live footy again and the view from the drive back through the city and alongside Lake Michigan was just stunning.

Have to draw the line at 10.50 for a beer though. And it's Budpisser!

[RoyalChicagoFC]

It's all good, Arky --you knew (or at least had an idea) with respect to what you'd got yourself into, but you paid your money and have all the license one could demand to bitch.

My grievance, such as it is, has to do with other stuff, and I'll get round to chucking it up here for those with any interest in it --another of Chi's discursive meanderings into, uh, differing ways of life and sport in places wherein one variant or another of the mother tongue is commonly spoken. A handful will find it worth their while, I don't doubt.

Yeah, Toyota Park is out in Broadview (79th & Harlem innit?), but it's at the edge of town, so the villagers don't really think of the place as their own. I was on jury duty with some woman from there who lent some interesting perspective. Best case, it'd take me an hour and a half to get there from here.

Yeah, South Side is a world apart. My old man was raised up @ 79th & Ashland in Little Flower parish (don't be goin' nowhere near there today, homez!), but aside from the Sox, I don't feel any sort of social or cultural connection to it whatsoever, although I do enjoy visiting my boy Chuqueaux down in Bridgeport not far from the ballpark (and my nan's first home) and have taken an overseas 'Nobber on a walking tour of the area (incl. the Daleys' former home and the legendary Schaller's Pump on Halsted). But I just ain't cut from that parochial yard of cloth and stick out like a tourist anytime I'm down there lolz.

If you really want to experience that petro-chemical-industrial stank in the air (and remember that the Stockyards shut down in '71), go down northwest Indiana way and roll up your car windows good and tight. The steel industry may have died a slow and ugly death, but lord a'mighty does the stench live on!

[Ark Royal]

It's all good, Arky --you knew (or at least had an idea) with respect to what you'd got yourself into, but you paid your money and have all the license one could demand to bitch.

My grievance, such as it is, has to do with other stuff, and I'll get round to chucking it up here for those with any interest in it --another of Chi's discursive meanderings into, uh, differing ways of life and sport in places wherein one variant or another of the mother tongue is commonly spoken. A handful will find it worth their while, I don't doubt.

Yeah, Toyota Park is out in Broadview (79th & Harlem innit?), but it's at the edge of town, so the villagers don't really think of the place as their own. I was on jury duty with some woman from there who lent some interesting perspective. Best case, it'd take me an hour and a half to get there from here.

Yeah, South Side is a world apart. My old man was raised up @ 79th & Ashland in Little Flower parish (don't be goin' nowhere near there today, homez!), but aside from the Sox, I don't feel any sort of social or cultural connection to it whatsoever, although I do enjoy visiting my boy Chuqueaux down in Bridgeport not far from the ballpark (and my nan's first home) and have taken an overseas 'Nobber on a walking tour of the area (incl. the Daleys' former home and the legendary Schaller's Pump on Halsted). But I just ain't cut from that parochial yard of cloth and stick out like a tourist anytime I'm down there lolz.

If you really want to experience that petro-chemical-industrial stank in the air (and remember that the Stockyards shut down in '71), go down northwest Indiana way and roll up your car windows good and tight. The steel industry may have died a slow and ugly death, but lord a'mighty does the stench live on!

I suppose just like any throbbing metropolis in the world, there are places where you do not venture, or venture to at your own risk - just like South London. I do love Chicago though. Before the game ,we had a fabulous meal at the Smith & Wollensky Steakhouse right on the river. Sat outside with a stunning view of the cityscape. oxf*rd huge seafood platter that probably entailed the emptying of a small atoll lagoon and a cocktail that would blow your socks off.

[Terminal Boardom]

Have to draw the line at 10.50 for a beer though. And it's Budpisser!

You never paid that for a round!

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Ah right --I neglected to add: LOL @ people who buy ballpark beer

[Ark Royal]

Have to draw the line at 10.50 for a beer though. And it's Budpisser!

You never paid that for a round!

True, so true.

[Ark Royal]

Ah right --I neglected to add: LOL @ people who buy ballpark beer

Actually, I went for the better value ersatz coffee at 4.50 and it probably had a higher alcohol content than the Bud. As Eddie Izzard once said: "I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup."

[RoyalChicagoFC]

I'll go for the occasional Best's Kosher dog w/grilled onions or a nachos platter (w/extra jalapeño slices) when @ the ballpark

Still an absolute ripoff and as such a grievous affront to my genetically ingrained Scottish and Swabian sensibilities; if, however, somebody else is treatin'...(then I'll eat hearty and enjoy a private lol)

Had coffeffee @ the North Side dump once 20 years ago, but that was only on account of my being hung over. Oh, and it was snowing.

[Ark Royal]

A Miller Park brat with Secret Stadium Sauce (I do not want to know) is the ambrosia of the gods.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Tell me true, now:

First time in Wisco and you saw a sign reading BRAT STAND, you thought it was a place to leave the kids.

Have I got that right?

[Ark Royal]

Tell me true, now:

First time in Wisco and you saw a sign reading BRAT STAND, you thought it was a place to leave the kids.

Have I got that right?

..or a place where you could buy one.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

I do love Chicago though..

my only real "complaint" about chicago is that one you've seen a bit of the city, it completely ruins the final car chase in the Blues Brothers, as you spend your time realising what a hopelessly impossible route it takes.