Well, This Should Change Things Around

After seeing Boston and Chicago use the Curse of The Bambino and the Curse of the Billy Goat, respectively, as a crutch to blame past failures upon, certain sports phans in Philly created the ridiculous Curse of Billy Penn to explain why we have gone without a Worlds Championship team since 1983. Well, it looks like the Powers That Be in the City of Philadelphia have seen to it that the Curse is wiped away. Check this out:

Keeping alive a centuries-old tradition - with a Philadelphia twist - a beam was hoisted to the highest point of Comcast Center today, topping off Philadelphia's new tallest skyscraper.

There was a small tree at one end of the beam, which had been signed by workers and those gathered for the ceremony, and an American flag at the other.

Between them was a statue of William Penn, the city's founder. There is a myth that Philadelphia's sports teams will not win a championship as long as a building "rises above Billy Penn" on City Hall, said Bill Hankowsky, chief executive officer of Liberty Property Trust, the Malvern company that is building Comcast Center.

He was referring to the controversy two decades ago when One Liberty Place, also built by Liberty, became the first to break that barrier.

"We don't believe in the myth, but to be safe we've added the statue of Billy Penn," Hankowsky said.

Great. I can rest easy tonight. A title must surely be coming right around the corner now that these knuckleheads added a statue of some dead guy to the top of this new skyscraper.