Whenever a Chicago professional sports team makes the playoffs, the city shows its support by dressing the 75-foot brachiosaurus skeleton replica outside the Field Museum it a team uniform.
(And when we say “whenever a Chicago professional sports team makes the playoffs,” we mostly mean when the Blackhawks make it to the post-season. The Cubs have only made the playoffs four times since 2000.)
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The dino jersey is such a Chicago tradition that the natural history museum had some explaining to do when its giant Blackhawks sweater was destroyed by bad weather before the 2015 playoffs.
Chicago’s Field Museum is also home to SUE the T. Rex, the largest, most complete and best preserved T. Rex skeleton in the world. SUE has its own Twitter account and decided to get snarky with its St. Louis counterpart, the Saint Louis Science Center, online last night.
Sounds like SUE and the rest of Chicago forgot that the Cardinals have won the World Series eleven times since the Cubs won it last, in 1908. This morning, the science center reminded them:
If dinosaurs weren’t already extinct, this burn would have WIPED THEM OUT.
Thanks for sticking up for our city, Saint Louis Science Center.
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