Save our Sonics
by Blazerland on Feb 3, 2009 10:51 PM PST
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Printthis is an e-mail i got from save our sonics. i still feel as a basketball fan and a sports fan in the pacific northwest seattle was robbed of its team and things did not happen fairly or justly. im a huge blazer fan but i dont see why the sonics dont deserve our support.
i say we support the sonics with at the game on the 11th. i will have a huge sign showing my disgust towards the way stern handled this.
Blazers offer Save Our Sonics discount February 1, 2009
The Portland Trail Blazers are excited to host the members of "Save Our Sonics" for a night of great basketball. Come watch Seattle favorites Brandon Roy, Nate McMillan and the Portland Trail Blazers take on the new Oklahoma City Thunder.
Portland Trail Blazers vs. Oklahoma City Thunder
Discounted Tickets
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:00 PMBlocks of tickets have been set aside so our members can sit together and enjoy booing both teams. :-)
Ticket Prices: Grey Section: $110 (reg. $120) Yellow Section: $41 (reg. $49) Purple Section: $17 (reg. $25)
To order call Blake Wehling at 503.963.3964 or click the link below to order online.
Click here to Order Tickets Online - Password = dont know if i should post thisRide the Blunder Bus Shuttle Express is running a fan bus to the game and you can round trip to Portland for the game for only $49.
Leave from the Northgate Transit Center, 3rd Ave & NE 103rd, at 2:30 and the Federal Way Park and Ride, 23rd Ave S & S 323rd St., at 3:00 p.m. Return after the game.
Book your seat today --call Shuttle Express at (425) 981-7064 or email sales@shuttleexpress.net to reserve your spot! Be sure to mention you are a member of Save Our Sonics to get your deal.
Book your seatDo it all again in April We realize this is short notice so this is a fun trip for those that can make quick plans. In April the two teams play again on the 13th and we are putting together a bigger trip with some celebrities and fun additions and promotions.
If you are interested in making the trip in April please drop us an email so we can judge interest and schedule enough transportation. We will send out the first email for this event in the next week or two.
Email interest in April 13th game
Save Our Sonics email: info@saveoursonics.org Web: http://saveoursonics.org
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ok lets not over-do this...
nevertheless, im happy the blazers are extending an olive branch to sonics fans.
Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
Hey. I really really sympathize with the Sonics fans, but...
I would still wear my regular Blazer colors to games….it’s the Blazers…they are playing…we are fighting for home court advantage…
Also, I would think at some point the “protest” has to end….it’s a done deal.
"The match in Los Angeles is a good opportunity to begin to demonstrate that we want to make war." Rudy Fernández (translated)
Really!
I’m sorry I really sympathize. I remeamber having courtside seats under the basket at the old MC way in 1977 during Jack Sikma’s Portland debut (I told my dad his shooting form sucked and he’d never be any good heh). yeah good times with the old Seattle rivalry but…
I am never going to wear Sonic colors to a Blazer game!
"The match in Los Angeles is a good opportunity to begin to demonstrate that we want to make war." Rudy Fernández (translated)
by G_dubs on Feb 4, 2009 1:11 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
It's pretty simple,
Wear a green or yellow long sleeved shirt under a Blazer jersey or t-shirt.
Mission accomplished.
Everybody was a baby once, Arthur. Oh, sure, maybe not today, or even yesterday. But once. Babies, chum: tiny, dimpled, fleshy mirrors of our us-ness, that we parents hurl into the future, like leathery footballs of hope. And you've got to get a good spiral on that baby, or evil will make an interception.
Red & Green
You may end up either (1) thinking it is Christmas or (2) thinking a lot of people can’t decide if they are a ‘fall’ or ‘spring’
Oh, it will totally clash,
but it’s the principal of the thing.
On a similar note, when does a jersey really look good with anything. I still wear mine to the game, but that doesn’t make it a good fashion choice.
Everybody was a baby once, Arthur. Oh, sure, maybe not today, or even yesterday. But once. Babies, chum: tiny, dimpled, fleshy mirrors of our us-ness, that we parents hurl into the future, like leathery footballs of hope. And you've got to get a good spiral on that baby, or evil will make an interception.
AS A Long time Blazer fan I fully support this.
It is just crap what happened to the good people of Seattle. More importantly we lost our closest rival. Revive the I-5 Rivalry!
nope
but you could buy a sasquatch costume and tackle clay bennett if he dares to show his face
by Tofu Anonymous on Feb 3, 2009 11:17 PM PST up reply actions
someone should wear
an oklahoma city blazers (central hockey league) jersey.
by Tofu Anonymous on Feb 3, 2009 11:40 PM PST up reply actions
"They were our Sonics too"
on a big old black and red sign with a Blazer logo.
Jerryd Bayless has two emotions: Kill and Win.
"I want to put points on your face."
-Rudy to Pau Gasol
NorrisHopper30: "someone injure pubert jones"
by rockingharder on Feb 4, 2009 3:50 PM PST up reply actions
I will do this only once
I will not wear my Blazer jersey/colors to the game. I will wear green.
Karma
I'v been protesting with my sonics shirt for months now.
Rudyculize: The act of Rudy making others look slow, dim and generally oafish.
http://www.myspace.com/y5k
a couple times. Less than you might think.
Rudyculize: The act of Rudy making others look slow, dim and generally oafish.
http://www.myspace.com/y5k
by Y5k on Feb 4, 2009 1:13 AM PST up reply actions
Save your Sonics?
First off, when did we ever give a crap about the Sonics? The most respect I can give the Sonics, is to spell their name with a capital S. If the Sonics fans had supported their team, they would have had a better chance of still being in Seattle.
I grew up in Washington, and kind of followed the Sonics in the early 70’s. I moved to Portland on new years eve of 1973. The Sonics had no chance.
If you are looking for support for a Sonics resurgence, you are looking in the wrong place. You will probably get an expansion franchise at some point.
If you are lucky, you will get a established team to relocate. Either way you will suck for years to come. Portland will dominate you.
If you have any hope of being competative, you will pack your bags and move south! Adopt the Portlanf Trailblazers as your team and enjoy the ride.
COMCAST SUCKS!!
You must not have enjoyed your youth
you seem to have a lot of rancor towards Seattle. Or at least Sonic fans. That is who you are referring to with the multiple “you are” statements, right?
I just miss the rivalry. There are some great stories in that rivalry.
by ryryslyry on Feb 4, 2009 12:14 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
CON! CUR!
F SEATTLE
couldn’t care less about the team or the fans except that I wish they were still around so we could kick thier heads in :)
some of you wearing sonics green? oh dear…
apparently none of you made road trips up there back in the 90’s. I’ve been to NBA and NCAA football games all over the country and the only time I’ve ever actually felt threatened was leaving that dump of an arena.
F jack sikma
F culry watts
F the space needle
king tut
coffee
and
F X man.
And brandon roy is ours
WOOT!
Buzzing to ****
by I Want Curly Hair Too on Feb 4, 2009 12:39 AM PST up reply actions
word of warning
you cant even drop implied f bombs on blazersedge so you might want to change it up before you get banned.
Life is exhausting when you are this stupid.
You do know that the city offered to finance a $200 million retrofit of the arena right?
And that Bennett countered with a demand of a $500 million arena fromt he ground up outside of city limits? Without matching funds?
Or are you just bitter?
by JordanLeDoux on Feb 4, 2009 1:10 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I have tickets the the game on 4/13
I will wear green. Especially if the message isn’t sent in the first meeting.
Paul Allen didn’t vote for the relocation, correct?
Plus from the business side the Blazers want to swoop up as much of our neighbors to the North’s NBA fan base.
But stuff Clay, Howard, and even David. In fact double stuff David!
...therefore the only owners worthy of respect in this league.
Jerryd Bayless has two emotions: Kill and Win.
"I want to put points on your face."
-Rudy to Pau Gasol
NorrisHopper30: "someone injure pubert jones"
by rockingharder on Feb 4, 2009 3:51 PM PST up reply actions
The Sonics left-- get over it and move on in life
Sometimes the world just isn’t fair. Life isn’t fair. David Stern is a douche.
Accept reality and get over it.
Some little kid in Africa is dying of malaria right now. The world isn’t fair.
David Stern doesn’t care about SOS anymore. He’s a douche.
Sometimes the world craps on your head in the form of a speeding ticket or getting cancer. Life isn’t fair.
Wow busty, this is really a dumb thing to say
Really, people dying is much worse than a team leaving a city? Thanks man for the perspective. We’re on a sports yap sight and here’s Sally Struthers in the house.
So because life isn’t fair we should just lie down and forget everything that happens and never fight or complain or solve things?
We agree on David Stern’s utter douchebaggery however. Let the healing begin.
Sonics fans need to do what Browns fans did...
They need to write death threats to Clay Bennet and David Stern until they get a new team.
Don’t get mad at me it worked for Browns fans
This is what Lucas would do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0aPkIE2qK0
by 123_G.O._RipCity on Feb 4, 2009 12:38 AM PST reply actions
Hate to be the contrarian but...
I sympathize with the Sonics fans but I don’t think it was Stern or even Clay Bennett’s fault. I followed the situation pretty closely and if you take the emotion out of it and just use logic it’s really the fault of the people of Seattle, specifically the people that didn’t feel that strongly about the Sonics.
Because why did the Sonics move? Because Seattle wouldn’t pony up the dough for a new arena, which is why Howard Schultz sold the team. Now I’m not saying this practice of asking for public money to build arenas for sports teams is right but it’s the reality, it’s the cost of having a professional sports team.
So if Seattle doesn’t build them an new arena (because Key Arena is the worst in terms of leas in the NBA) and Oklahoma has a better arena, then I don’t fault them for moving to Oklahoma City and OKC for taking it. There is nothing dirty or illegal or immoral about this. And yes I would feel exactly this way even if it was the Blazers.
The Gov of Washington Gregoire, rejected a last minute offer by Ballmer and investors to renovate Key Arena. So basically the politicians decided it wasn’t worth the cost to the taxpayer to keep the Sonics in Seattle. So blame the politicans right? Well you can, but why do politicians do anything? To stay in office, if they thought that the Sonics leaving would kill any chance of re-election they would’ve used public money to build a new arena in an instant, the fact that they didn’t shows that Save our Sonics while a dedicated bunch were soley in the minority of Seattle and Washington. It didn’t create a huge uproar and surely enough Gregoire got re-elected despite being the Gov who lost the Sonics.
So if I was a Sonics fan I would be mad at the people who didn’t care enough about the Sonics to picket or sign petitions or vote against the politicians who didn’t do enough to keep the Sonics in Seattle.
I wouldn’t blame Clay Bennett, because even if his plan all along was to move the team to OKC, Seattle never called his bluff, if they had taken Ballmer’s offer to renovate Key Arena or build a new arena and THEN he still insisted on moving to OKC then I would blame Clay Bennett. Everbody points out how Seattle is a big market, it doesn’t matter how big the market is if you have a horrible arena deal like Key Arena, so he made the capitalistic choice and went to OKC.
I guess my point condensed is that it’s easy to blame everything on Stern or demonize Bennett, but nobody seems to point out, this is not the people of Seattle were robbed of a team, it’s more a dedicated minority were robbed of a team because the majority really didn’t care enough to prevent the team from leaving. Blame that majority of Seattlelites.
Ok I know I wrote a whole lot but I’m going to finish with this, I think some of the attacks on Oklahoma City have seen on the internet (not here specifically) have ranged from crude to disgusting. I don’t think the city or the fans have done anything wrong, I think the attacks have been uncalled for, especially remarks about the bombing, and speaking of which, when a city has been through something that terrible I give them a f***ing break and be happy they can be known for something other than a horrific bombing.
by neutroticblazerfan on Feb 4, 2009 2:06 AM PST reply actions 2 recs
wow monster post
how long did it take you to write all that? it’s a thesis not a comment…
Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
It's easy to say that as long as it's not your team.
Attendance at the Key was great until they blew up the team. After that, let’s just say that it looked more like when Patterson and Nash blew up our team.
Portland didn’t have to pay for a new arena, Paul Allen built the Rose Garden with his own money. When attendance was way down during the rebuilding a few years ago, and no one cared about the team, you think Portlanders would have payed for a new arena? If you do, you’re kidding yourself.
The Blazers were very close to being sold. It’s possible they could have been moved.
To all the comments on this fanpost that rip the Sonics, your inability to empathize with what happened to the Sonics says a lot about your character.
Where were you as a Blazer fan during the bad years? You weren’t here…
Koponen - PG of the future. For Italy, that is. Book it.
by Blazerholic on Feb 4, 2009 7:03 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Exactly
I’m stunned by the lack of empathy that some Blazer fans have considering how close our team came to experiencing the same fate. I also think that blame for the Sonics leaving sits directly with David Stern. Everyone involved in the situation (Schultz, Bennett, government, fans) acted as you would expect them to act given the situation that was presented to them, but one of Stern’s primary jobs is to protect the integrity of the league. The man ignored that responsibility in favor of helping out a close personal friend (Fun Fact: Stern introduced Bennett at Bennett’s induction into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, and this was before Bennett ever announced his intentions of moving the team).
Lastly, I think the eight paragraph comment above is more of a recitation of David Stern’s talking points than a result of following the situation closely. Almost every point laid out in those eight paragraphs has an easy and logical rebuttal that has been presented multiple times over the last two years.
The Gov of Washington Gregoire, rejected a last minute offer by Ballmer and investors to renovate Key Arena. So basically the politicians decided it wasn’t worth the cost to the taxpayer to keep the Sonics in Seattle. So blame the politicans right?
they asked for more money than qwest field OR safeco costs which is ridiculous.
Not to mention
The Sonics still owed money for the previous round of renovations to Key Arena that had been done at their behest. Basically, they tried to act like a charity case and the people of Seattle and Washington said ‘Enough!’
You are correct in one assertion – Howard Schultz was the underlying cause for much of this. If you want to make a statement, boycott Starbucks.
I switched to Peets a few weeks ago, and
Starbucks announced another round of closures this week. Coincidence?
Actually, Starbucks owns Peets too.
So it’s best to boycott both Starbuck and Peets, unfortunately.
"whoever scores the most points is probably gonna win the game"
Seattle -ites ...the rumor around the Nets
as they lose their fanbase and their financing for the Brooklyn move – - -is that they might be Seattle’s next franchise…
"..[Travis Outlaw] could jump, grab a rafter, eat a sandwich, and then dunk.."
tmundal 12/30/07
I'd wear Green
and I could barely stomach the Sonics. But my cousins in Tacoma, Bellingham, Gig Harbor, et al, loved them. I loved that I could drive to Seattle and see the Blazers twice a year. Sonic fans can be as bitter as they want. If the same thing happened to the Blazers, I would haunt the OKC team in every arena possible
"its tough to play with one eye, unless you're a pirate." Delonte West
"una canasta a Pau en la cara" Rudy
This was exactly my point.
It matters not whether you had a certain distaste for the Sonics or even the city of Seattle. This is a statement to all pro sports franchises everywhere. Fans don’t like it when you move cities. Especially when you rip the team out of the arms of the beloved fanbase. The Sonics were in the playoffs just 3 4 years ago and now they don’t exist. Their attendance numbers during the last few years were every bit as low as Portland’s. My whole point is this could have been us. In a message of solidarity let us boo the Oklahoma City Franchise Stealers and strive for a world record of longest boo. Besides If Seattle never gets a team again I hope they might remember our generosity and join forces with us. 14th largest tv market + the 23 largest tv market = lots of money for the Blazers. I think that Portland should get an NHL team and then we can have Seattle cheer for our indoor sports and we will cheer for their outdoor sports. How many Portlanders already cheer for the Seahawks and Mariners.
by RipCityRoyCity on Feb 4, 2009 12:14 PM PST up reply actions
I am actually going to be at the game...
along with the Mrs. and SmallTimber. ST has never been to the Rose Garden. What a game it should be. OKC is playing much better ball right now.
I am wondering how conflicted those old Seattle fans will be. Are those fans going to be pulling for the Blazers now? I’m kind of conflicted about it. I don’t know if I like lettiing more possible opponent fans in the building.
If you feel funny about wearing green or yellow
just wear some U of O gear. Problem solved. (Unless you’re an OSU person.)
Sticking up for Travis Outlaw since 2008.
by Kaboomm on Feb 4, 2009 8:15 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
I'll be there, and I'll be wearing some U of O gear under my Rudy jersey
I’ve changed my position on the matter. At first, I was in the “screw ’em” camp in regards to Seattle, because, honestly, they have two other major league teams, and I’ve been fans of them my entire life. They can get by with the Mariners and Seahawks. Even more screw ’em because the Sounders got an MLS franchise and not the Timbers.
However, I came to a realization. Screw Oklahoma. They whine about everything. They feel like they’re justified in having an NBA team, even as they steal it from one of the great American cities. The callousness of the OKC fanbase is what changed my mind.
by robrun2 on Feb 4, 2009 9:20 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
Okay what is the purpose of wearing green?
To show support for Kevin Durant and them? Or to show the dissatisfaction with how Stern allowed a storied franchise to be ripped out by its roots?
I can understand two, I don’t want to see one.
The SOS crowd is going to be cheering for Durant and that crew… in our arena… while some of us apparently are going to be wearing the same colors as them… That, I don’t like.
While I think it is horrible that Seattle lost its team, and while I wish that it hadn’t happened. I do not think that wearing the colors of the opposing team (albeit their old colors) sends the correct message. The message that it sends is we still love the team no matter where they are, and that is not the case. We have never loved their team, we loved beating them, and vice versa. If Sonics fans want to come down the I-5 to support their old team, I have nothing to say to them, but I do not want our fans to show solidarity. I don’t know the best way to show respect, but what I do want is to beat the living tar out of them.
We loved the I5 rivalry, for the same reason everyone loves a rivalry, because you hate the opposing team. Because of the home crowd ready for blood. And because silence is golden only in an away arena.
So I will not be wearing Green, it disrespects my team, and it disrespects the rivalry, I will instead be rooting as hard for the Blazers as I possibly can, that is the only way I know to honor the death of one of the best rivalries in the NBA.
From the back of Travis Outlaw's Franz card: Travis leads the team in monstrous thunder dunks, wins awards for post game interviews, and often gets extra points for degree of difficulty.
by TheOdenator on Feb 4, 2009 9:54 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
Are Sonic fans going to be cheering for OKC?
I didn’t think so
"its tough to play with one eye, unless you're a pirate." Delonte West
"una canasta a Pau en la cara" Rudy
by Honka Playboy on Feb 4, 2009 10:27 AM PST up reply actions
That's what's weird about it to me
What exactly are “we” cheering by wearing Sonic colors? The good old days?
I encourage all former Sonic fans to buy some up to date Blazer gear at the game, if they so desire. Might start a new trendy trend up there.
"The match in Los Angeles is a good opportunity to begin to demonstrate that we want to make war." Rudy Fernández (translated)
There is no way any self-respecting Sonic fan is going to cheer for the OKC Blunder
BINGO, BANGO, BONGO
They are driving three hours
And are certainly going to cheer Durant, Westbrook, etc.
And why would they cheer for the Blazers?
Like I posted in the seattleites page, if this were our team, we would not be driving three hours to boo Roy, GO, and LA (its not their fault), and unless Clay Bennett makes an appearance I don’t think they are going to boo anyone except the Blazers.
From the back of Travis Outlaw's Franz card: Travis leads the team in monstrous thunder dunks, wins awards for post game interviews, and often gets extra points for degree of difficulty.
I live in Seattle and I know what the sentiment is like here
There is nothing but absolute disdain for Clay Bennett, OKC, and the entire Thunder organization. The Thunder are not the Sonics, nor will they ever be again for Sonic fans. There are plenty of NBA fans in Seattle. They will drive down to the game, let the league know Sonic fans still exist, and bring attention to their displeasure at the way David Stern handled the situation. And they will cheer the Blazers to completely demolish the Thunder.
Sonic fans do not hate the players, but they hate the Thunder and what it represents. Just take a look at Sonicscentral or BenditlikeBennett.
BINGO, BANGO, BONGO
why would they cheer for Westbrook? He never played in Seattle.
I know that if Clay Bennett had bought the Blazers and the whole OKC scenario had played out here, the ex-Blazers would be DEAD to me. DEAD. Like Fredo was to Michael Corleone. I’d be wanting to take them out for a final boat ride.
Are they not coming down here to protest Sonics fans getting screwed? Why would they cheer for the organization that backstabbed them so egregiously?
by Badalona Baddie on Feb 4, 2009 1:33 PM PST up reply actions
Re: Badalona CC: blzrfan
Not the Thunder fans that I have been talking to (most of which currently live in Portland). They still love Kevin Durant, and have been following the progress of the team and Westbrook. I still get in arguments about KD vs. GO, and get told how Seattle made the correct pick.
Sonic fans do not hate the players
And I feel confident that they will cheer for them. With it being a game against a subpar team, I think tickets are going to be easy to get, and if Kevin Durant does a single cool thing, then they are going to cheer for him. If they get the lead, these fans will cheer for the players that they loved less than a year ago.
Why would they cheer for the organization that backstabbed them so egregiously?
Why would they drive three hours to see them? The fans that are driving down have definitely had a different reaction than you would. If they were “dead to you” then you wouldn’t care what they did. Why would even waster gas driving down much less buy a ticket?
From the back of Travis Outlaw's Franz card: Travis leads the team in monstrous thunder dunks, wins awards for post game interviews, and often gets extra points for degree of difficulty.
I don't think you understand the negative emotion and disgust the Thunder generates here in Seattle
I lived and breathed through the entire Sonics ordeal. Durant fans are far and few here. He played one lame duck season in Seattle, and the players that the city truly embraced were traded, Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis. The only connection to the Thunder team is thievery not its players.
There are lots of loyal NBA fanatics in Seattle. They are willing to drive down and wear Sonic colors to show support for another NBA team in Seattle or at least honor the heritage of the Sonics in a living memorial. There is no other game that would be more appropriate than the Thunder game.
The phrase, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”, fits this game for Sonic fans like a Glove.
BINGO, BANGO, BONGO
except that they were our enemy
only when they were the city of Seattle’s friend.
From the back of Travis Outlaw's Franz card: Travis leads the team in monstrous thunder dunks, wins awards for post game interviews, and often gets extra points for degree of difficulty.
Shouldn't they change their name to "Bring Back the Sonics?"
How can you save what is already lost?
It's not offensive until someone read it.
because the name sonics is not lost.
they both mean the same thing though. SoS is a lot better than BBtS haha.
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