The UConn Husky championship flag flew this past weekend over Beech Bend Park in Bowling Green Kentucky, atop the “Kentucky Rumbler” wooden roller coaster.
Photo courtesy of Beech Bend Amusement Park, via Quassy Amusement & Waterpark
Take a good look at the countryside where that UConn championship flag flew this past weekend. That’s not Connecticut, it’s southern Kentucky, high atop the “Kentucky Rumbler” wooden roller coaster at Beech Bend Park & Splash Lagoon in Bowling Green.
Beech Bend paid off its Final Four “high-roller” bet with Quassy Amusement & Waterpark. As the UConn Huskies men’s team prepared to play in the national championship game against Kentucky, the family-owned parks, each with a Top-50 wooden roller coaster, wagered the right to fly its team’s flag at the other state’s amusement park — on opening weekend.
So Quassy, in Middlebury, shipped the UConn flag to Beech Bend in time for the bet, after UConn beat Kentucky 60-54 for the national title.
Now word on whether Quassy’s “Wooden Warrior” is also flying the UConn flag, but Quassy said in a release, “both parks are now focusing on the summer season and betting on something far more important for them: good weather.”