When you cover the Chicago Blackhawks, you encounter one distinctive, but vastly underreported ritual that takes place inside the Blackhawks’ locker room. On that carpeted floor is a beautiful, large Indian head logo; and if any one steps on it, a curse or pox shall come upon them!!!!! One day, I did my best to avoid stepping on it while also trying to navigate a media throng, and since I have the gracefulness of Clark W. Griswold to begin with, I nearly fell on my face. A locker room usher observed, didn’t care at all about my almost falling, and simply said: “You almost stepped on it there.” I once saw a camera man step on it, prompting a couple reporters to shout “DEATH.”
I know this is BEYOND STUPID! Justin Bieber made this mistake and now he’s paying for it. I hate the Biebs, but I have to side with him on this one.
The Chicago Blackhawks do a lot of condescending things to people, but this is ONE OF THE MOST CONDESCENDING!
At the 2009 Hawks Convention at Chicago’s Hilton towers, this tradition was discussed at the breakout session entitled “Inside the Locker Room.”
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