Yea Black Hawk!

It's the Stanley Cup Finals and as of today the Chicago Blackhawks are up 3 games to 2 over the Philly Flyers! Yea!!

In honor the Chi squad, led by Winnipeg native Jonathan Toews (That's pronounced "Taves"), Your Old Buddy Foz dedicates this post to the story of the great (he was actually old and quite feeble) Illini chief (He was Sauk) Black Hawk!

Here's the story, so get ready to cheer a lot! In the summer of 1832 Chief Black Hawk led a band of desperately starving Sauk and Fox Native American folks (Old people, women and children!) across the Mississippi River from Ioway (Hawkeyes!) to his recently dispossessed lands in Illinois (Fighting Illini!). Being a not-overly-effective leader of people, Black Hawk did this without the permission of the new owners, the White American people (U.S.A.! U.S.A! U.S.A!). This was an unpopular move among the Whities.

Also, probably as a result of his oldness and feebleness (from starving!), Black Hawk did little to control the small number (50-75) of young thuggish "warrior" types that only wanted to make trouble for The White Man. Well, the Whites would probably have killed Black Hawk and all his pathetically starving people anyway, but once the young thugs killed off a few pioneer fams, and kidnapped some ladies (Ladies Night! Yea!), it was genocide time on the prairies of the Prairie State (Cue Chelsea Dagger!).

I won't go into all the details. That's what history books are for (Read a book; it's good for you). Let's just say that there weren't many starving women and children left by the time the U.S. Army got done doing it's thing (That's Army Strong!). I think most of the mean Indians who killed pioneer families got away. Old people are just easier to catch (Call your grandma today!).

That's all for today, my sexies. Meet Old Foz tonight, along with Leon "Black Fish" Strokes and Patrick, as Foz the Hook plays their monthly headliner at Cole's. Cole's, as you know is at 2338 N. Milwaukee. We're going to raise a toast to The Blackhawks - and Black Hawk! Exploit! Exploit! Exploit! Yeaaaaaaaaaaa. Exploit!