One day Sam says this pointing to his head: “I always tell my kids, you go to school. You get something in here. You get something in here and you can do anything. You can go into business ’cause anytime you got something in here, nobody’s ever going to be able to take it away from you. You can go into business and lose, but up in here [he taps his fingers to his head again] nobody can take it away.”
The 2016 Cubs won the World Series with a little help from the “Good Luck Goat” and Sam’s “Reverse the Curse” ceremony. Now that the season is back, watch all the games at Billy Goat Tavern – the most legendary baseball bar in the country.
Here’s the moment the Curse was broken from inside Billy Goat Tavern:
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In 2001, Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos came to visit Billy Goat Tavern. He even got to work behind our world-famous flat top grill.
“He can come again tomorrow at lunch if the internet thing doesn’t work out,” said Sam Sianis.
“It was a big day,” says Sam. “I come in early that morning and I see two guys in suits just looking around the place.I ask if they need help and they say no so I just do what I always do and then go ti a lunch meeting. I’m there and I get a call and they say Bush is coming. I am shocked and I hurry back and they are all getting ready for the president. When he gets there he eats and sits with me and four regular customers and talks about family and politics. He wants to know the history of Billy Goat and he wants to know about Mike.”
From the day the first goat stumbled into the Tavern, the Billy Goat Inn became a circus of animals. There were numerous goats, from beer drinking to dollar bill eating, but mostly beer drinking. An avid animal lover, Billy offered the tavern as their home. A long line of Goats from Billy “the original” to Murphy “The goat curse” have always been a regular staple at the legendary Tavern.
