Apparently everyone was pissed off that Jim Belushi was on the ice after the Blackhawks win, hoisting the Cup.
I get that it’s total bullshit for him to be on the ice hoisting the Cup, but the hatred seems to go beyond that. Can a Chicagoan help me understand?
IANAC, but there’s a certain line that a fan doesn’t cross, and Belushi crapped all over it. What right does he have to celebrate with the people that actually did the work to earn the victory? It’d be like Rudy Guiliani spraying champagne in the clubhouse after a World Series, or Spike Lee with the Knic-wait, that’ll never happen. What puts it over the top, however, is that it is possibly the most revered, iconic, mythical trophy in all of sports, and for a 3rd rate hack like him to just inject himself into what amounts to a sacred moment for many of the actual participants, it’s reprehensible, and worthy of any public outcry that results from it.
Well, there are much bigger celebrities than Jim Belushi who are prominent at athletic events, but whatever his faults, Jack Nicholson never ran on the court to celebrate with Kobe when the Lakers won in the NBA finals. Jack knew better. He knew it was the players’ moment.
Jack knows better, sure, tho’ I seem to remember Dyann Cannon running towards the locker room celebration back during one of the Showtime titles.
Again, I get that he had no business on the ice. I was just wondering if he has a reputation of sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong during big moments in Chicago sports history or something. It seems more like a hatred of Jim Belushi specifically, not the actual act itself, which again, I understand was bullshit.
Here’s an example. A quote:
The answer is in one of the tweets in that linked article, courtesy of one Michael Palmer:
I’m not a Chicagoan, nor did I watch this game, but if you’ve ever seen “According To Jim” you’ll hate him too.
Jim Belushi is a talent less hack who avoided a life of dreary desperation as a fry cook at a Vienna Beef stand because his older brother was a comic genius and died young. I lived in Chicago for over a decade and a vast majority of the people I met who talked about Jim Belushi (beyond the "Oh, him I hate that guy!) all agree he’s a pox on comedy, on acting, and on Chicago. And the fact he had the audacity to lift the Stanley Cup over his head like he had something to do with it was an insult to the players, the coaches, and anyone in the Black Hawks’ organization, including the Zamboni driver. Every ounce of distaste directed his way is well deserved.
The sports equivalent of, “I’m gonna let you finish, but first…”
Well I mean there is a long-running gag about how why couldn’t it have been him that died instead of his brother, that’s gotta hurt, seems a lot of people never forgave him for that.
I like Jim Belushi better than John Belushi. Horning in on the celebration is definitely going overboard though.
But Bill Murray and the Cubs was ok? Well…it probably was.
Well, Murray is connected to baseball, he is the part owner of four minor league teams and is an inductee in the South Atlantic minor league hall of fame. I don’t know if any of his teams are part of the Cubs system.
Apparently he is part owner of the Charleston River Dogs (Yankees affiliate), Hudson Valley Renegades (Rays affiliate) and St Paul Saints (independent). They may be others.
While we’re Belushi bashing, I was struck by how old he looked when he was young. On this picture Jim Belushi - Wikipedia he’s about 28 yet looks like he’s in his 40s.
Does he just happen to look old genetically or did something happen?
But if Brian Doyle-Murray had tried it…
