legend has it in 1945 the owner of the billy goat tavern in chicago was asked to leave a chicago cubs game and take his pet goat with him. the tavern owner cursed the cubs and the curse of the billy goat the faithful believe is supposed to explain why the cubs haven't been to the world series since. if you are not the a little superstitious about sports, you are probably not that big of a sports fans. i for example am a red sox fan. don't even talk to me about the curse of the bambino. i do not want to hear it. there's the madden football video game curse. since twoon every offensive football player to be featured on the cover had a pretty lousy season. there's the "sports illustrated" cover curse. if an athlete or team appears on the cover, in way too many cases they flame out spectacularly. doesn't apply to the swim suit issue though.