A viral theory suggests if the Chicago Bears, who haven’t won the Super Bowl since the 1985 season, win the big game this year, the world will go back to its original timeline and not the one it has been in since 2016.
Here’s why some people are rooting for a Chicago Bears Super Bowl victory.
Breaking down the Chicago Bears Super Bowl theory
Social media users, some who oppose President Donald Trump, are theorizing a Bears Super Bowl victory will propel the world out of “the wrong timeline.”
TikTok user Kelly Sites (@kellysites) brought the theory to light.
In her Jan. 11 video, which has garnered over 48,000 likes and more than 346,000 views, Sites says the theory comes from the idea that when the Chicago Cubs won the World Series in 2016, it “propelled us into the wrong timeline.”
She goes on to explain that the Cubs were supposedly jinxed by the “Curse of the Billy Goat,” a curse, as legend has it, William “Billy Goat” Sianis put on the Cubs in 1945 after being told his goat couldn’t enter Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the World Series. Sianis said the Cubs would never win a World Series “so long as the goat is not allowed at Wrigley Field.”
But 71 years later, the curse was broken, and the Cubs were once again World Series champions.
“(The Cubs) broke the curse finally, like literally a few days before Trump actually won the election in 2016,” Sites said in her video. “And if you remember, like, nobody thought Trump was going to win in 2016, like everyone thought for sure Hillary Clinton was going to win.”
The Cubs clinched the championship with a Game 7 win over the then-Cleveland Indians on Nov. 2, 2016, while Election Day 2016 took place Nov. 8.
So, as Sites puts it, the “only way to get back to the right timeline” would be for the Bears to bring home the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
“The Bears need to win the Super Bowl and maybe we can get back to the right timeline,” she said. “Also, we have a Pope from Chicago, so maybe it’s all divine intervention.”
Sites’ video isn’t the only one to go viral. A post on the Bears theory from user @yslcowgirl has 713,000 views and another from @becky.in.chicago has 222,200 views.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Why TikTokers say Bears Super Bowl could reset ‘wrong timeline’
Reporting by Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer / Cincinnati Enquirer
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