dog was the animal that was associated with the chicago cubs curse.
dog was the animal that was associated with the chicago cubs curse.
which animal was associated with the chicago cubs curse?
dog
the curse of the billy goat was a curse on the chicago cubs that was started in 1945 and ended in 2016. as the story goes, billy sianis, a greek immigrant (from paleopyrgos, greece), who owned a nearby tavern (the now-famous billy goat tavern), had two $7.20 box seat tickets to game 4 of the 1945 world series between the chicago cubs and the detroit tigers, and decided to bring along his pet goat, murphy (or sinovia according to some references), which sianis had restored to health when the goat had fallen off a truck and subsequently limped into his tavern. the goat wore a blanket with a sign pinned to it which read "we got detroit's goat". sianis and the goat were allowed into wrigley field and even paraded about on the playing field before the game before ushers intervened and led them off the field. after a heated argument, both sianis and the goat were permitted to stay in the stadium occupying the box seat for which he had tickets. at this point, andy frain (head of wrigley field's hired security company at the time), waved the goat's box-seat ticket in the air and proclaimed, "if he eats the ticket that would solve everything." however, the goat did not. before the game was over, it started to rain and sianis and the goat were ejected from the stadium at the command of cubs owner philip knight wrigley due to the objectionable odor of wet goat. sianis was outraged at the ejection and allegedly placed a curse upon the cubs that they would never win another pennant or play in a world series at wrigley field again because the cubs organization had insulted his goat, and subsequently left the u.s. to vacation in his home in greece. the cubs lost game 4 and eventually the 1945 world series, prompting sianis to write to wrigley from greece, saying, ""who stinks now?"" the cubs would eventually break the curse and what would turn out to be a 108-year drought by winning the world series in 2016 over the cleveland indians in seven games.
1945 chicago cubs season
the flag is known by many names, with none being more prevalent than the rest, and may often be referred to by more than one name by the same manufacturer. "chicago cubs w win flag" is the name used on amazon.com, however the company also refers to the flag as chicago cubs 'w' banner flag in their marketplace section. cubworld.com also refers to the flag by the name chicago cubs 'w' banner flag. other retailers use the names cubs win w flag, chicago cubs win 3' x 5' flag, cubs w flag, or (chicago cubs) w flag in the case of sports fan warehouse. one retailer even sells an item called the chicago cubs w fan banner. another retailer sells two versions of the flag listed as chicago cubs win w flag and chicago cubs win flag, yet its advertisements mentions celebrating a cub win with the chicago cubs white "w" flag. an alternate version that has the chicago cubs logo beneath the w can be found under the name chicago cubs win w banner.
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