Want to help save the Sonics?
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:01 pm
A few year back a group of Sonics fans including myself got together and put in money for an Airplane banner to fly above Key Arena to express our distaste for the former GM Wally Walker.
Here is our handy work.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6060014589875809566
Over all we were please with our success.
Since then as you all know the Sonics have been sold to Clay Bennett and he wants to move the team.
Thing is Clay won't have a sit down to try to work things out with the City. He claims his office door is open to conversation, but there is no one in the office. He won't return calls to the organization called SAVE OUR SONICS. I think that tells you his motivation.
He basically demanded a state of the art arena or he was going to move the team. He is not open to any sort of middle ground. Like a new lease or a possible remodel of Key Arena.
I guess 41 years of support doesn't mean much because now Clay claims the fans don't care, after he has done everything he can to put out a product that simply isn't very competitive today, but it is set up to be very good in three years.
Anyway bottom line is that the fans in Seattle do care about the Sonics. But like any team in any city if you are in close to the cellar fans are a little less gung ho. Before this season fans filled more than 90% of Key arena every year, and yes we have be bad for a while.
But that doesn't mean we want the team to up and leave.
So we the fans are once again putting together funds to fly a banner.
This time our goal is to fly the banner above New Orleans Arena before the Rookie vs Sophmore game during All-Star weekend, so that league will know that the fans do care.
We are trying to get this point across to owners who will have a say in the Sonics possible move. If the owners vote no Sonics stay.
So if anyone else thinks the Sonic fans are getting the shaft and would like to be part of the Sonics staying in Seattle we have a paypal account set up so if you are incline to donate a few bucks it will go to the Airplane Banner.
Every dollar helps! Also if anyone in here has any sort of contacts with the media in New Orleans (obviously our goal is to get this banner on TV) we would really appreciate the help.
Here's the paypal account.
sonicfansunited@yahoo.com
Stay Sonics! Best of luck on the rest of the season.
If you want more info you can go here.
http://www.sonicscentral.com/bboard/viewtopic.php?t=6403&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Here is our handy work.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6060014589875809566
Over all we were please with our success.
Since then as you all know the Sonics have been sold to Clay Bennett and he wants to move the team.
Thing is Clay won't have a sit down to try to work things out with the City. He claims his office door is open to conversation, but there is no one in the office. He won't return calls to the organization called SAVE OUR SONICS. I think that tells you his motivation.
He basically demanded a state of the art arena or he was going to move the team. He is not open to any sort of middle ground. Like a new lease or a possible remodel of Key Arena.
I guess 41 years of support doesn't mean much because now Clay claims the fans don't care, after he has done everything he can to put out a product that simply isn't very competitive today, but it is set up to be very good in three years.
Anyway bottom line is that the fans in Seattle do care about the Sonics. But like any team in any city if you are in close to the cellar fans are a little less gung ho. Before this season fans filled more than 90% of Key arena every year, and yes we have be bad for a while.
But that doesn't mean we want the team to up and leave.
So we the fans are once again putting together funds to fly a banner.
This time our goal is to fly the banner above New Orleans Arena before the Rookie vs Sophmore game during All-Star weekend, so that league will know that the fans do care.
We are trying to get this point across to owners who will have a say in the Sonics possible move. If the owners vote no Sonics stay.
So if anyone else thinks the Sonic fans are getting the shaft and would like to be part of the Sonics staying in Seattle we have a paypal account set up so if you are incline to donate a few bucks it will go to the Airplane Banner.
Every dollar helps! Also if anyone in here has any sort of contacts with the media in New Orleans (obviously our goal is to get this banner on TV) we would really appreciate the help.
Here's the paypal account.
sonicfansunited@yahoo.com
Stay Sonics! Best of luck on the rest of the season.
If you want more info you can go here.
http://www.sonicscentral.com/bboard/viewtopic.php?t=6403&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
