While all of Chicago loudly celebrated the Cubs' win over the St. Louis Cardinals Tuesday night, a bet was quietly lost. And that bet was between Six Flags Great America and Six Flags St. Louis.
The two amusement parks played up the long-standing rivalry and placed a wager that their respective home teams would come out on top. Well, as we know, the Cubs stole the series with Kyle Schwarber's nail in the coffin home run, now enshrined atop the Wrigley Field scoreboard. And when that happened, Six Flags St. Louis had to rename a rollercoaster.
It's on @SFStLouis! Losing team's park will have to rename a coaster. Get ready for Cubs Thunder! #FlyTheW pic.twitter.com/GCIuutt5NE
— SF Great America (@SFGreat_America) October 9, 2015
Enter Cubs Thunder.
This is what happens when @SFStLouis loses a bet! #GoCubs #FlyTheW #OrangeRoom pic.twitter.com/k6vcZTz8yb
— SF Great America (@SFGreat_America) October 15, 2015
Six Flags St. Louis went so far as to even rename the coaster on their website, saying "Cubs Thunder will make your body levitate out of the seat with non-stop negative Gs on hill after hill after hill." The roller coaster aptly has an 80-foot drop, tops out at speeds of 48 mph and has no less than 16 hills—apt considering the Cubs' dominant performance.
The previously named American Thunder will run as Cubs Thunder until the end of the 2015 MLB season.
Will New York's Coney Island Ferris wheel be next?
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