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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 1048511" data-attributes="member: 13032">Speaking of hockey, and Chicago - it was the early 90s, I think, and my company had four tickets to a Hawks' game at the old Chicago Stadium.  I think it was the last season at the Stadium.  I had never been to a pro hockey game.  We walked in just before the face off.  A fight started right after the National Anthem and BEFORE the face off and there were a number of guys fighting.  I knew fighting and hockey went hand in hand, but this was before the game started.  (In fairness, that can happen in other pro sports.)The fans went nuts.  I know why they tore that place down.  The upper deck was swinging back and forth from the fans going nuts.  We thought the whole place was gonna collapse.Our seats were low and just to the side of one of the goals, and just above the protection of the glass.  I was sitting next to a lifelong Hawks' fan with season tickets, and very few teeth.  It was a trip.  Thankfully, we were pretty loaded by the time we got there.  Even so, I remember how incredibly violent the perfectly legal "body check" is.  I don't know how that glass holds up.I might have my date wrong. I'm sure it was the last season at the Stadium.  Regardless, I'm glad I got to see that place.</blockquote>

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