George Ferguson Column: Even when the Cubs win, things aren't perfect

I’m a superstitious guy when it comes to sports. I can’t help it. I’m that guy who will think of just about 100 different ways in which I jinxed my own teams. I’m not that guy to blame others for the jinxes though, only myself.

So having said that, you can only imagine how superstitious I am when it comes to the Chicago Cubs — which doesn’t make me much different than any other Cub fan on the planet.

And because I am a deeply devoted, diehard, true-blue Cub fan, I owe the three football teams who I hold dearest to me a bit of an apology for what happened this weekend.

You see, I, like many Cub fans, have been waiting for what feels like an eternity to see what happened on Saturday night — to see the Cubs celebrate the fact that they’re going to the World Series. And, on these black and white sports pages inside the Havre Daily News, I’ll probably be telling you a lot more about that.

But, with the Cubs’ clinching game against the Los Angeles Dodgers being set for Saturday night, and with me wanting them to win that game so badly, I, in my wacky way of thinking, feel like I may have caused things to go terribly wrong for other sports teams that I care about, just as passionately as I care about the Cubs.

In other words, you know the saying: You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Well, for me, I believe that played out Friday night and most of the day Saturday, in the form that it was a mighty rough weekend for the Havre Blue Ponies, the MSU-Northern Lights and the Montana Grizzlies.

Yes, it was a really rough weekend for all three of my favorite teams, and I feel bad about that. All three teams, as always, gave it their all, they played their hearts out, but, against very good teams, nothing seemed to go right. Not Friday night or Saturday afternoon at Blue Pony Stadium, and not Saturday night when the Griz played Northern Arizona in Flagstaff.

Trust me, nothing went right for any of my football teams this weekend, and yet, ironically, everything went right for my Cubbies. And while I can’t prove it empirically and don’t have any evidence to back it up, the way my mind works, I can’t help but believe there was a connection.

In other words, there was no way the forces at work were going to allow me to see the Cubs reach the World Series for the first time in my lifetime, while also watching my three favorite football teams win very important games within a 24-hour span.

I strongly believe in that old saying I mentioned earlier when it comes to who I root for in sports. And, it seemed to have played out yet again this weekend.

So, while I’m being just a little sarcastic in my writing, I truly do mean this when I say, if my desperation in wanting the Cubs go to the World Series was in any way connected to what was a really rough weekend for those three football teams, I’m sorry for that. That old saying about cake came back to haunt me once again.