Buffalo Dogs and Old Style, Here!

An interesting article in today's Great Falls Tribune gives me another connection between my current home and my childhood, (though it is somewhat of a stretch) : Local Bison Meat to Supply Vendors at Wrigley Field.

In my house, we grew up Cubs fans.  My dad is a Cubs fan, and so was his dad.  I have many fond memories of listening to Ron Santo and Pat Hughes announce the game over AM radio.  I came to prefer listening to the radio broadcast of the games over the television announcers and still believe that listening to radio broadcast fosters a deeper understanding of the game than does watching it on television.  Often, my brother and I would turn the television broadcast of the Cubs game on, but mute the sound and use the radio broadcast instead-- we just liked it better!

Joe Ricketts, an extremely wealthy businessman and whose family is a majority owner of the Cubs/Wrigley Field/ Comcast, has purchased a large area of ranchland in the Blackfeet reservation, northwest of where we live, for the purpose of supplying bison meat to Wrigley Field and other places.

The article has some interesting comparison of cattle ranching to bison ranching, and also touches on relations between the ranch and the Blackfeet reservation.

I am fortunate enough to have attended a small handful of baseball games at Wrigley Field, one of the last remaining Cathedrals of Baseball: a true baseball park.  I don't remember seeing any bison offerings at the games, but maybe they will be available the next time I am there (hopefully sooner than later!) I can already hear the food vendors walking up and down the aisles hawking buffalo burgers and Old Style. I will sample a bison hot dog or burger, knowing that the meat in that product is from my new home of Montana.