导出博客文章CHICAGO -- On Nov. 4, 2015, All Blacks players TJ Perenara and Julian Savea were
on the open-top bus going through Auckland with hundreds of thousands of
supporters below screaming in celebration at their 2015 Rugby World Cup
triumph.On a clear, warm day in Chicago exactly a year later, Perenara and Savea
joined the millions of locals cheering on the Cubs bus as it passed down
Michigan Avenue with a dyed-blue river running beneath.It was joy unmatched,
with screams, shouts and tears combining to make it a wonderful hullabaloo of
Cubs World Series celebration. Waiting 108 years for a championship does that.
For the All Blacks, New Zealands national rugby team, success is expected
year-on-year with the quadrennial World Cups place in their ever-growing trophy
cabinet almost pre-booked.Success is in the lifeblood of the All Blacks, as is
public adoration. But as Perenara, Savea, Aaron Smith, Aaron Cruden and Sam Cane
played an impromptu game of baseball on the closed-off East Upper Wacker Drive,
eager passersby were a mixture of baseball fans confused by who these
silver-fern adorned folk were and All Blacks fans who have journeyed to Chicago
for Saturdays Test at Soldier Field.On Wednesday night, the All Blacks stayed up
to watch the Cubs make history. A few had stocked up on merchandise earlier in
the day and heard from their hotel rooms the explosion of car horns celebrating
the World Series triumph.It was an unfamiliar experience for them not being the
biggest show in town, but they enjoyed being among the fans rather than in the
spotlight. They got caught up with the buzz of the event culminating with
Fridays parade.Its a little bit strange for us, Savea told ESPN in the shortest
of breaks before being asked for another photo. On Wednesday night all the horns
were going off. And before, everyone was saying that, win or lose, this town was
going to go off. They were right. I would have loved to have been at Wrigley
Field. Its cool to be part of the parade now, though. You only see this sort of
stuff on TV, and you dont get to see it close up. Its something special.For All
Blacks coach Steve Hansen, he took a more analytical coaching perspective on the
Cubs triumph. He started his press conference Thursday with the classy touch of
congratulating the citys baseball side and offered his thoughts on ending 108
years of waiting.It was sporting theatre as you have the highs of the Cubs and
the lows of their opponents, Hansen said. I listened to Joe [Maddon], the
Chicago coach, saying that curses and such things arent what make sport, its
actually the process of getting across the line that makes it.And for Hansen,
the expectation in the city was familiar. Being involved in a high-profile team,
you are expected to win all the time, he added. You can feel the emotion and
sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but the emotions always the same. It
takes you to places you dont normally go.On Friday, with millions descending on
the streets of Chicago -- Theres more people here than there are in our whole
country, was Perenaras take -- the All Blacks left their hotel to walk the short
distance down to Michigan Avenue to be nothing more than faces in the
crowd.Perenara was perhaps the most excited of the All Blacks present. As the
first trams passed by with family and friends of the players enjoying the
moment, he jumped on Saveas shoulders to get a better view. Teammate Waisake
Naholo followed suit, testing Owen Franks core strength.For Perenara, he was in
that 2015 parade with the All Blacks and also in one just three months ago to
celebrate the Hurricanes Super Rugby triumph. For him, the experience in Chicago
was more closely aligned with the Hurricanes parade, as it was a citywide
explosion of pride rather than a nationwide event.Its another scale here; there
are a lot more people here, and for the Cubs to win it is special, Perenara
said. The only time I ever get to see something like this is on TV. I remember
when Cleveland won the NBA, and watching their parade was crazy.When we won the
World Cup it meant so much to our country, but this is just one city coming
together and you can see how much it means to the people.He could relate to
those in the crowd and those on the bus. He knows how those Cubs players feel --
that mixture of exhaustion and exhilaration, living off the buzz of the city.
But from Perenaras experience, soon that feeling will abate, leaving one of pure
pride in what they have achieved for their citys supporters.Its a surreal
feeling and its probably not on the same scale as to what these guys are
feeling, Perenara said. They play baseball because they love it and we play
rugby because we love it and its a game.In Super Rugby this year we won it and
we saw how much it meant to the young children, the old folk, and that was so
special for the city. I imagine theyre feeling the same sort of thing, and while
they love the game and winning, they will see almost how much more it means for
them and those memories will last for longer than that winning buzz.
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