Chicago Olympics Countdown – Hold the Ketchup

As you may have heard, our fair city is one of the leading contenders to host the 2016 Olympic Games. And Chicago is putting on a full court press.  The biggest star on the planet is in Copenhagen helping to make the case for Chicago.  Oh, and the POTUS and FLOTUS are there as well.

Most polls show that Chicagoans are pretty evenly divided about whether they want Chicago to be awarded the games.  And I’m like most Chicagoans…I’m divided myself.  On the one hand, it would undeniably bring world class attention to our world class city, and provide plenty of marketing and business opportunities.  We need that.  But for some reason, I just can’t get that excited about it.  Maybe that’s because I’ve never been a big fan of competitive Taekwondo.

Still though, the competitive streak in me wants to see Chicago win.  Madrid?  Come on.  I happened to be in Madrid a few weeks ago and while it’s a great city, they have zero chance.  None.  Zilch.  Even the people in Madrid know that.  Tokyo?  Not gonna happen.  So that means it’s effectively between us and Rio.  And I don’t feel like losing to Rio.  I just don’t. I really don’t want to be thinking about how nice it is down there when I’m shoveling 14 feet of snow in mid-January!

So let’s win this thing and show the world that you never, EVER put ketchup on a hot dog.

Let’s bring Da Olympics to Chicago!  Who’s with me?!

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