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Six Flags will uphold bet with Alabama water park after UGA loss

"The Scorcher" rollercoaster will be renamed the "Alabama Scorcher" for opening weekend because UGA lost to Bama.
"The Scorcher" rollercoaster will be renamed the "Alabama Scorcher" for opening weekend because UGA lost to Bama.
By Ben Brasch
Jan 10, 2018

Well, it happened. Alabama bested Georgia in the national college football championship.

Aside from Nick Saban slipping another ring on his hand, the loss means Six Flags Over Georgia will uphold its bet with an Alabama water park.

Six Flags in Austell, will rename the “Scorcher” rollercoaster to the “Alabama Scorcher” for its opening weekend, March 10 and 11.

The park confirmed the worst (with sass) on Twitter after someone tweeted out what looks like some low-grade Microsoft Paint work depicting the Bama logo on the rollercoaster sign.

READ | Fans come, some as far as Singapore, come to watch Georgia and Alabama

Six Flags also said some staff will even wear “Roll Tide” shirts those days.

Ew.

If UGA had been victorious, Alabama Splash Adventure would have renamed its “Rampage” rollercoaster to the “Georgia Rampage” for opening weekend.

The Cobb County amusement park made good on a similar deal with a Six Flags in Boston when the Falcons unceremoniously lost the Super Bowl.

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The team returned to campus Tuesday morning after spending the night in Atlanta after the National Championship game

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Ben Brasch is the reporter tasked with keeping Fulton County government accountable. The Florida native moved to Atlanta for a job with The AJC. If there's something important to you going on in Fulton, he wants to know about it. Help him better metro Atlanta by dropping a line, anonymously or otherwise.

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