Candid Stanley Cup Bar Footage Captures Why We Love Sports

We don't love sports so much because we actually care about who can put a ball in a net or through a hoop. The true appeal is in the way these silly, arbitrary games we invest so much in reflect and bring out core elements of the universal human experience — success, failure, determination, community, joy and sorrow, for example

The YouTube clip above captures this perfectly. Shot at a Windy City bar called The Pony on Monday night as the Chicago Blackhawks came back to win the NHL's Stanley Cup title in thrilling fashion, the two-minute video is raw, unedited and so, so real