While watching the Hawthorn-Geelong game on Easter Monday the cameras panned and found Western Bulldogs' coach Rodney Eade in the crowd, no doubt taking notes on next week's opponent Hawthorn. I however was particularly intrigued by the sight of Rocket wearing a Chicago Cubs baseball hat. What I need to know is precisely under what circumstances that particular hat came to rest on Eade's head.
Like the Bulldogs the Chicago Cubs absolutely and unequivocally qualify as a tortured sporting franchise. Maybe more than the Dogs. Definitely more in fact. Which is saying something. They haven't won a World Series since 1908 and have been jinxed countless times along the way, often falling at the final hurdle and under the most bizarre of circumstances. Think black cats (seriously) running onto the field just prior to important pitches in big games in addition to weird, nerdy, CIA looking guys leaning over the fence and catching home run bound balls just before they leave the park and you might get a better understanding of what the Cubs have endured. In fact type in anything on Google pertaining to 'curse' and 'Chicago Cubs' and you'll find endless information regarding their calamities. For the not so sporting inclined Sufjan Stevens' album 'Illinois' makes reference to the curse on the album's cover.
Sure, these kinds of things haven't exactly happened to the Dogs however we (I mean they) have lost 6 preliminary finals in the last 25 years (three of them by less than two goals) and like the Cubs have been waiting a bloody long time for another premiership. In fact in US sports no club has waited longer for a championship than the Cubs while the Bulldogs have been carrying around the same ball and chain in Australia for fifty-six and half years now.
I just want to know whether Rocket had purposely procured that particular hat as some sort of show of solidarity with the Cubs or whether it's because the Cubs' colours are red, white and blue or whether it was simply because Monday was a sunny day and Rocket had just stopped in at Rebel on the way to the MCG and picked up the first hat he saw. It's important we find out. I also wonder if Rocket knew that the Cub's opening game of the season on Tuesday resulted in a 16-5 loss in Atlanta? Or whether Cubs' fans knew the Bulldogs coach in faraway Melbourne was wearing their team's hat?
Rocket get rid of that hat as quickly as possible and then perform some sort of cleansing ritual if need be. You don't mess with curses.
(You won't believe me but just as I typed that final full stop I got a really weird pain that ran up my arm and into my ear which then ran across my shoulders, kind of mimicking a cat running along the top of a fence.)
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