Chicago mayor is throwing serious shade at Tampa Bay Lighting

The Stanley Cup drops the puck this week, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is throwing serious shade at Tampa Bay.

When Rahm Emanuel was in President Obama’s cabinet back in 2008 as his Chief of Staff, conservatives hated him for being a bully. He left the White House to become the Mayor of Chicago in 2011, and both side of the isle now view him as a bit of ‘rough around the edges’ type of guy.

That’s not a hard title to bare when you’re throwing as much hardcore shade at another city’s mayor like Emanuel did this week. Ahead of the Stanley Cup Finals dropping the puck in Tampa Bay, Rahm Emanuel issued a press release that in the Old West would have resulted in a duel at high noon.

The whole story starts with the Tampa Bay Lightning trying to shy away from admitting Blackhawks fans to their home games in the Stanley Cup. This isn’t all that uncommon, as home teams in the postseason aren’t going to give opposing fans opportunities to fill up their arenas if they can get around it, and it’s not even the first time it’s happened to the Blackhawks.

Nashville was so obsessed with keeping Blackhawks fans out in their first-round series that they not only got around selling them to fans but tried to ruin their national anthem experience.

Emanuel has had enough of this and is stepping in.

It takes a special kind of mayor to care this much — or a crazy enough one.

The poor mayor of Tampa Bay is probably only just discovering what hockey is, in the great state of Florida, and is getting tossed into the snake pit like this.

This is probably the most Frank Underwood thing that Emanuel could have possibly done short of throwing someone in front of a moving train.

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