In Chicago, there is one sports rivalry bigger than all the others. Every year the crosstown classic is packed full of fans decked out in their black and white or red and blue.
This year, the face-off between the White Sox and the Cubs will happen at the end of May, and like every year, I’ll be cheering for my White Sox.
If you’re a baseball fan, you know that the Cubs don’t have much of a track record for winning. Their fans are more about tradition and pride and hoping that the next year might just be the year.
There’s also this whole thing about a curse, which, according to legend and Yahoo Sports goes something like this: “During the 1945 World Series, Billy Goat Tavern owner William Sianis placed a curse on the Chicago Cubs when the team denied his pet goat Murphy entry into the famed Wrigley Field. Since, the Cubs have not appeared in another World Series, let alone won one, so the ‘Curse of the Billy Goat’ is still referenced to this day.”
Well, last Wednesday someone decided to make sure that the Cubs didn’t forget about this occurrence and dropped off a severed goat’s head at Wrigley field. As entertaining as this is, I think that whoever did it is taking it a little too far.
I am not superstitious, nor do I believe the Cubs’ lack of winning has anything to do with something that happened with a goat more than 65 years ago. However, it still brings up the issue of sportsmanship and respect. The goat head that was dropped off last week was specifically addressed to the Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts, but it was never actually delivered to him.
Although no one really knows anything about the guy who delivered this goat’s head, I feel there is a great possibility that it was a White Sox fan. And as much as it entertains me that this happened, I think it is taking the “curse” a little too far.
Attempting to deliver a severed animal head to the team chairman is slightly disturbing.
Sportsmanship is important and a goat’s head isn’t exactly a peace offering.
But I mean, since we all know that the Cubs aren’t going to make it to the World Series anyway, there’s no need to worry that this new goat’s head is going to make them any worse than they already are.
