Was The Rock Surrounded by a $30 Million T-Rex Skull During His ManningCast Appearance?

The diverse variety of guests they’ve managed to book throughout the season adds to the pleasure of the ManningCast. Peyton and Eli Manning welcomed Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson during the second quarter of Monday’s playoff game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Arizona Cardinals.

The Rock was an excellent guest to have during this period since it was very dull and full of horrible Cardinals errors, and not the entertaining type of errors that make a game exciting. Everyone’s attention, however, was drawn to Johnson’s backdrop, which featured a massive dinosaur skull.

Johnson was eventually questioned about it. He informed the Manning brothers that the head had been called Stan and that it was the most complete T-Rex skeleton ever discovered by a palaeontologist.

This appears to be something a super-rich man would keep about his house. However, it was shortly discovered that Stan the T-Rex was sold for a large sum of money in 2020. We’re talking about more than $30 million. According to National Geographic:

Now, an auctioneer’s hammer has thrown Stan’s future into question, with the dinosaur bones sold off to the highest—and, so far, anonymous—bidder, stoking fear among experts that this beloved T. rex may be lost to science.

On October 6, the London-based auction house Christie’s sold the T. rex for a record $31.8 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for a fossil.

This does not necessarily mean that The Rock dropped a cool $30 million on a T-Rex fossil, but it definitely might. In which case it is one of the biggest “rich guy on TV” flexes of all time.