City flag of Grand Rapids

Flag of Grand Rapids

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI - "Hey Grand Rapids. Your flag sucks, too."

Now those are fighting words.

Those are also words that appeared on Chicago news station WGN's Twitter feed just after 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 21.

The TV station took to calling the city's flag "Miss Pac-Man with lipstick," but then went on to explain what it actually stands for: A red shape representing Alexander Calder's iconic stabile "La Grande Vitesse," which is located downtown, and a wave of blue representing the Grand River, all inside a yellow circle.

"That is horrible," the anchor went on to say.

Why so rude, Chicago?

Apparently they weren't trying to be. The clip was actually part of "Larry's World" a satirical segment of the broadcast. Wednesday's topic was odd flags around the country.

The station released this statement and has since deleted the Tweet mentioned above.

"The tweet was a poor choice of words. It was in reference to a satirical piece, which we often do on the WGN Morning news. We apologize, we did not mean to offend anyone," wrote WGN News Director Jennifer Lyons.

The Grand Rapids flag wasn't the only one to be mentioned in the segment. Flags representing Kvalsund, Norway, Pocatello, Idaho and Milwaukee were also mentioned.