Anyone know if the ESPN2 broadcast will be blacked out locally in Chitown? My apologies if this has been covered in another thread. Couldn't find any info though.
Sounds easy enough, but pre-existing plans dictate that I'll be watching this one on the tube. That said, back to my original question.
it should be blacked out unless fire can get 30,000 or more:-D but im very positive fire can accomplish that feat.
If you really want to get some people's blood boiling, try going to the Bay Area and throwing around the term "Frisco"
Granted, I've only lived in Chicago for about 10 years, but I'm gonna need an explanation as to why that was so offensive? I am assuming you are a born and bred Chicagoan who can enlighten me to this faux pas. Yes? much appreciated.
See above re: "Frisco". It's just not done. And geez, it's not like it's loads shorter or something. All of one syllable
Not to prove so much as to discourage use. All I'm saying is you'll be hard-pressed to see that term used for the city or region in any media or in common usage in town. It's something people from other parts of the country seem to use in referring to the city, and it makes you a bit easier to ID. Okay then.
ID as being someone who's lived in Chicago for 10 years? Guilty as charged. Anyway, I was merely trying to find out if the game was going to be blacked out, not a schooling on how to refer to my hometown. I suppose that was just thrown in for free.
I think maybe you were taking that part of it far too personally. Just having fun with the remark. And ESPN2, as was mentioned, does not blackout MLS games. MLS does not have a blackout policy.
The views and opinions expressed on these message boards are strictly those of the authors. They have not been approved by the city or the people of Chicago. In other words, I say chi-town whenever I feel like it and I was born and raised here. I've never heard anyone complain. At least no one who didn't have a stick up their ass or something close to it.
Well okay then... Are you implying something? Maybe I'm misguided with that, but most of the folks I've known or things I have read over time in growing up here have indicated to me "Chi-town" is a ugly moniker. That's all. Excusez-moi. Hey Jason, send me an email, BTW.
As a Chicagoan who winces when outsiders refer to it as "Chi-Town", a phrase almost nobody I know uses, I spent a couple summers in the Bay Area and noted that citizens of that City by the Bay, in referring to their hometown, manage to plagarize the term for the London, England financial district... A bit pretentious on their part, but what-the-hell..and nobody ever referred to it as "San Fran", either.
ok, ok. now that we have clearly strayed from the intention of this thread, I must ask... What is it that enables a person to call themself a "chicagoan" and what about being a "chicagoan" is so offensive about the term "chi-town." ...and why when using the word does it label someone an outsider? (other than the resemblance to shitown) Just wondering. I had no idea we would end up having so much fun over the word chitown.
Now look what we've gone and done. We've got an "outsider" telling us "chicagoans" that our fellow "chicagoans" are acting like "outsiders." This is getting more confusing by the minute. Where's 2-bit and Soda Pop?
I guess the same thing that irks San Fransciscans about "Frisco" or New Orleans residents about the way the name is pronounced. Just cause? It's always struck me as sort of stupid personally, especially if the intent is to create a shorter nickname as it's only by a syllable, but that's me. Based on what I know lots would just prefer to call it Chicago, if we're not talking about a descriptive name like "city of big shoulders" or "the windy city" (which admittedly, even a lot of chicagoans still don't get the meaning of). Maybe because it seems diminuitive? The idea of Chicago being a 'town' as opposed to a big, bustling city? I really don't know. Maybe Chicagito would at least sound better?