“And in the master’s chambers, they gathered for the feast, they stab it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the beast!” (Guitar solo) Deee-doo-durrrr-deedle-deedle-durr!
Satanism. Whether it’s The Eagles allegedly singing about it in dad-rock classic Hotel California (see above), Marilyn Manson growing breasts, or an excuse for dressing like a whore on Halloween; our American cousins are obsessed with Devil worship.
And one American sports club who have been burned by black magic are the Chicago Cubs baseball team, who apparently had a curse put on them by the owner of a local pub in the 1945 World Series because they wouldn’t let him take his pet goat into Wrigley Stadium. No really.
Well now, in a Scooby Doo-style twist, the old legend appears to have come back to life after a bloke in a white van dropped a severed goat’s head in a box at the stadium’s gate.
If the new goat’s head was supposed to jinx the Cubs further it may have worked as they blew a 5-0 lead in the third inning right after the special delivery, eventually losing 7-6 to defending World Series champions the San Francisco Giants.
But Cubs players aren’t buying into all the hokum and baloney, with pitcher Jeff Samardzija telling the perpetrator: “Come up with something original. The billy goat curse against the team has only been around for 60 or 70 years. You would think they would come up with something new.”
Sounds like a case for Scooby, Shaggy, Velma and the rest of the Mystery Machine gang to us. What’s the betting Wrigley Park is built on an old gold mine and the groundskeeper is trying to scare off fans using an old film projector and a goat costume?
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