HELP Us REVERSE the CURSE and Fight Cancer!
Join us at the Billy Goat Tavern and help us Reverse the Curse and fight cancer as we hold our annual Billy Goat Reverse The Curse Party featuring Murphy the Goat! All proceeds from the event will be donated to the Hippocratic Cancer Research Foundation.
October 6, 2016
5:30PM – 8:30PM
Billy Goat Tavern 430 N. Michigan Ave. (Lower Level)
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Many people ask about the rainbow goats painted on the walls outside of The Goat. They were painted in 1970 by Sachio Yamashita, known as Sachi. He appealed to Billy Goat Sianis “The top of Michigan Avenue is the most beautiful street in the world. But every day I walk down here with all this filth and all the pigeons and it is most depressing.” Billy made a deal with Sachi. Every day after Sachi and his helpers finish their work, beer and borgers are free! Unfortunately Billy Goat Sianis passed away on October 22, 1970 just days before the painting were complete.
The Body Issue is ESPN The Magazine’s annual celebration of amazing bodies throughout the sports world. We’re honored to announce that Murphy the Billy Goat has been selected!
Murphy has put in a lot of work to get in shape for the issue. He spends every morning climbing the stairs to Lower Michigan Ave and has even given up eating out of the dumpster. Murphy will join sports starts like Jake Arrieta and Dwayne Wade.
“I miss Mike very much,” Sam says in May 2000. “I see Mike three, four times. Matter of fact, I see him three days ago. Mike come by here. It was when he was dead. I ask him if he remembers when I said, ‘Mike, if anything ever happen to me, I want you to keep the Billy Goat name alive.’ And he nods his head and I tell him, ‘Now that you are gone I am going to keep your name alive. I’m going to make sure your name will live forever.'”
