Seattlites Invade!
by Dave on Feb 4, 2009 12:46 AM PST
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PrintThe never-say-die-even-when-you're-dead Save Our Sonics group has teamed with the Portland Trail Blazers to create an Sonics fan night in the Rose Garden when the Thunder come to town on February 11th.
Blazerland has posted all of the details in the sidebar here.
Interesting concept, and I'm sure one the Blazers highly encourage. I wonder how the rooting will feel for the folks from Seattle who make the trip. I can imagine them feeling great on the way down but having really mixed feelings once the teams take the court. For any of you coming down from Seattle I'd be interested in your post-game reflections either via comments or e-mail.
Somebody remind me to put up a "What to do on game night in Portland" post the day before for our friends from the north.
--Dave (blazersub@yahoo.com)
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Somebody start singing "We shall over come" already.
OK, maybe it’s a little dated
Rudyculize: The act of Rudy making others look slow, dim and generally oafish.
http://www.myspace.com/y5k
Does Kemp have enough unaccounted/forgotten children running around to form a new team?
I would like to see his monthly child support bill, just for pure shock value.
nice, good genes
hopefully he uses better judgment than his pa.
by Bust a Bucket on Feb 4, 2009 5:05 PM PST up reply actions
I never thought about something like this until you posted. Wow, its going to be interesting.
WELCOME TO LOUD CITY!
Do you think
these people should get over it and move on in life?
by Bust a Bucket on Feb 4, 2009 3:33 AM PST up reply actions
I don't know
I mean, do you think you would be over it after a couple of months if the Blazers moved out of town due to sheer evilness and the league giving you no support? I doubt that I would be cool with it for a while. I guess this is why you shouldn’t invest so much emotional stability into a professional sports team.
I wouldn't
"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 10:15 AM PST up reply actions
Didn't Ben write a great "what to do/where to eat when in Portland" for another site?
Probably they own that, but he could link to it.
I don't understand...
are they coming down to cheer for the blazers and boo the thunder? or are they going to root for their former team? are they just gonna sit there and “make a statement” by wearing old sonic colors? I only care if they are going to cheer for the blazers.
The Blazers as a whole are far more like my wife than like me in the sense of their physicality on defense.
-Dave
If it were the Blazers who moved.
Would you drive three hours to boo the team?
Or would you be driving three hours to cheer on Greg, Roy, and LA (I mean it really isn’t the player’s fault)?
I am thinking you would do the latter, just the same as me, and that is definitely part of the reason I am not so much in favor of Blazer Fans wearing green.
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.
Why's everyone so territorial?
Welcome Sonics Fans imo
Blazer Fan
by leeroyjenkins on Feb 4, 2009 7:23 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
I welcome the Sonics fans
but I do not welcome the Thunder. I still refuse to acknowledge that that team is a part of the National Basketball Association. Usurpers.
"It all depends on where his growth will come and we think his growth will come within us" -- Kevin Pritchard on Jerryd Bayless
by Jumbo on Feb 4, 2009 7:38 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
It's a tough spot for Sonics fans...
The players didn’t choose to move, so it wouldn’t be fair to boo them.
The owner/organization deserves to be booed, but most of them won’t be there.
Sonics fans are welcome, so long as the don't cheer for the Thunder.
I hate the Sonics still even though they’re dead and gone but hate that they’ve been heisted by sleazy Oklahomos. Because of this I have vowed to ALWAYS hate the Thunder.
Sonics fans: if it’s absolutely necessary that you stink up the Rose Garden with your poor hygiene and other naturally occurring Seattlite odors for the night, BOO the thunder. Loudly. It’s not your team anymore. Far worse people than you own that team now—Oklahoma-types. Yuck.
with air quotes?
I totally would go to this game with both Blazers and Sonics gear. I don’t quite get the Seattle hate (I mean, I understand some of the reasoning – shouldn’t we hate L.A. more on principle?) and plus the Sonics fans were straight-up fleeced in this whole deal.
by Doug-e-Fresh on Feb 4, 2009 10:17 AM PST up reply actions
Don't you mean the Not-Sonics?
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 3:47 PM PST up reply actions
I hope the talk about re-alignment is true. I really have no interest in the Thunder they dont feel like a rivalry anymore. They are just some crummy expansion team that are Blazers have to fly 3 and a half hours across the country to play. It should be 4 easy victory’s.
I hope Seattle gets another nba team it would be good to start a new rivalry.
I try to help with everything," Fernandez said. "If the coach says go rebound, I go rebound. I work for the team.
""If I'm playing this game to get media and attention, I shouldn't be here," Aldridge said. "I'm here to play basketball, and do what I can do to help this team win."
Ok, give them Seattlites seattitles for one night.
Sergio + Rudy = 16
Sergio + Bayless = 16
Batum 8+8=16
Seattle and Sonics
Even with the rivalry, I think it’s hard for a lot of Sonics fans not to cheer on Nate McMillan, Brandon, and Martell. They’re Seattlites. Oh, and “Cloud Farts” is another option as for titles of that team.
NOT WELCOME!!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nba/2003982305_blazers30.html
Some fun quotes from the Seattle Times article above titled “Don’t look here for Blazer Fans”
“…the only thing Oregon is good for is Oregonians’ delightful service of pumping a Washingtonian’s gas.”
“…there’s no way I would ever root for the Portland Trail Blazers. It could never happen.”
“I’ve heard them joke around and call them the Seattle Trail Blazers” – B Roy
“It’s in my bones, [Portland] is the armpit under Seattle”
Sorry, my memory isn’t so short. You want to watch your bastardized team, buy some flights to Oklahoma. As far as i’m concerned, you’re not welcome here.
It's a shame that story was before the Sonics were moved
It’s datelined Oct. 30, 2007. Of course Seattle fans would be defiant at that point in time; there’s no real chance they’d move from Seattle to Oklahoma-freaking-City, right?
Umm. Oops. About that.
Unless they get an expansion or relocation team soon, they’re stuck with Portland.
by Doug-e-Fresh on Feb 4, 2009 12:42 PM PST up reply actions
They just get jealous
because PDX has way more strip clubs per capita. Not even close. And the rules of engagement are much more lax than the ones they even have.
Ok one night if they want to wear their nostalgic NBA gear. Cheer the blazers tho please. I’d y’all start cheering Durant…to the moon Alice! To the moon!
"The match in Los Angeles is a good opportunity to begin to demonstrate that we want to make war." Rudy Fernández (translated)
Thank you!
I hate Tacoma! Unfortunately I might be going to college there…. uggghhhhhh…
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by CaptainSexyJacob on Feb 5, 2009 8:10 PM PST up reply actions
Keep the I-5alry!!!
I love this idea, it will be awesome to see a bunch of people in sonics gear again. My fingers are crossed.
Life is hilarious.
I'm going to start calling games against Sacramento the I-5 rivalry.
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 3:49 PM PST up reply actions
Spencer Hawes
Is a SEATTLE product after all…
by jazzaholic17 on Feb 4, 2009 11:14 PM PST up reply actions
Quick, get your Sonics memorabilia before
they get their team back!
Roy Tribute
Treat people well because Karma can hit you at any second.
I live in Sumner, Wa.
And I’m comming Down. But I also use to live in Portland in fact I was born in Portland. Witch is about 35 miles from Seattle. So I really don’t count because I have always been a Blazer fan. But I have been living 35 miles outside of seattle for the last 20 years. And have went to many Sonic game in the past. Everytime The Blazers use to come to Seattle I would go to the games and root for portland and my wife is from Seattle and she would root for the Sonics. Hell some times she would root for both teams. And I would have to tell the people around us that I was from Portland and my wife didn’t want me to have to root by my self and she also just likes to see every body score. But anyways I will be rooting for the Blazers and my budding that is comming down with me is a die hard Sonic fan and he will be rooting K.Durant and the thunder Sonics. But not me Because I love my Blazers I remeber Driving thru the streets in 1977 and just loving being a Blazer Fan and I will always be a Blazer fan No matter what NBA city I live in.
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