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You are not seeing a hallucination here the coaster formerly known as Evil Knievel and American Thunder is now "Cubs Thunder" and the Chicagoan in me was loving it!



If you have been living under a rock then you might have not heard that The Chicago Cubs finally put a really good team together.  So good in fact that they made the post season this year going up against the St. Louis Cardinals after beating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Wild Card game.



With the two rival cities each with a Six Flags a bet was hatched.  Whoever won the series had to rename a coaster (for the rest of the year) to the other team.  Well the Cubs took down the Cardinals and Cubs fan's got to do something that rarely happens...they got to brag up their team! 



As someone who lives between St. Louis and Chicago there are a lot of ribbing each other and at work I have to deal with more than a few Cardinals fans who get way too excited about saying that the Cubs suck.  Needless to say this was a wonderful year to be a Cubs fan.  For me it was an added benefit to see the sign out front of Six Flags St. Louis saying "Come Ride Cubs Thunder" and to see the the sign in the park.



It was really fun seeing all of the people in Cubs gear hanging out by their ride.  We saw many high fives from strangers, a few hugs and lots of cheering when someone would yell out "go Cubs"!  I even saw a few St. Louis fans walk on by refusing to ride.  Remember it is just a game and you won't win every bet.

I spoke with Park President Dave Roemer while we were there and he said that since the bet attendance was through the roof with not just the fans spreading the word but they had nation wide media attention due to the bet. 
 


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