Competitive eaters chow down on goat meat to help Cubs break curse

He hoped to bring the Cubbies luck, but instead, he was turned away at the entrance of Wrigley Field – because his goat smelled.

Maybe this really is the Cubs’ year, you guys.

A group of Chicago Cubs fans apparently tried something that could only be classified as “Different” in an attempt to eradicate the “Curse of the Billy Goat”.

Sure enough, the Cubs haven’t so much as been to the World Series since then, and they haven’t won a championship since 1908. The Curse of the Billy Goat was born. But one curse at a time I guess.

“It was awesome. I wanted some of it”, said Alice Chiu, a co-owner of Taco In A Bag, the North Side restaurant where the eating took place. However, with this year’s team poised to make a postseason run, some Cubs fans did what they could Tuesday to lift the curse.

Former Nathan’s hot dog eating champion Takeru Kobayashi, Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti, Tim Brown, Kevin “L.A. Beast” Strahle and Bob “Notorious B.O.B.” teamed up to devour a 40 pound goat. The restaurant prepared a 40lb goat. Clearly the best way to reverse a century-long curse is to just eat a damn goat.

Turns out, it took them 12 minutes to finish the entire goat – slackers! – but they did what had to be done, and left no remnants of the creature.