The Chicago Cubs won Best Moment at the 2017 ESPYs, and only one Cub ended up on stage to accept the award. Instead, Nick Offerman gave the award to another rabid Cubs fan and actor friend.
Offerman started by making a joke about lovemaking, then giddily introduced a video that captured the moments in Chicago before the last out of Game 7 of the 2016 World Series.
Offerman appeared to get emotional before officially announcing the Cubs as the winner, but the team didn’t come out to accept the award. Instead, Bill Murray came out wearing a party hat on top of a backwards Cubs hat.
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Murray grabbed the award and gave what was supposed to look like an inebriated speech, naming Cubs legends and a long list of people important to the Cubs franchise. Then, a janitor appeared behind Offerman, and Murray and appeared to mop the floor.
Murray grabbed a bottle of champagne and a saber from the janitor’s mop bucket and saber’d the bottle open, taking a drink as the crowd cheered. He got another bottle for Offerman, who opened his own. At this point, it was clear that no Chicago Cubs would take the stage to accept the award.
But—surprise!—retired Cubs catcher David Ross was the janitor with the champagne bottles in his Cubs mop bucket. He revealed himself and started dancing, then Murray let him saber a champagne bottle as well, and all three guys on stage got to drink a bit of victory champagne while the Foo Fighters’ “Best of You” played them off stage.
Months later, Bill Murray is still having the time of his life with the Cubs’ first World Series win in 108 years.
