Revisionist history.
Rufnex, you started the bashing of the Roughnecks day one and accused them of "stealing the idea of soccer" on this forum.
You don't get the high road.
I was damned angry, and for good reason... after the Drillers got involved, the TW wouldn't give us the time of day and now we've lost our stadium.
You sure loved calling us "cheap" on the above thread and in TW newspaper comments sections back then, Michael... so you sure don't get the high road either.
Here are just a few of your accusations and cheap shots, Michael:
"But not to you and the Athletic soccer hooligans."
"You are jealous of their money and ability."
"I get it. But attacking anybody who likes the idea of even more soccer in Tulsa is nothing but childish."
"I just want professional soccer in Tulsa. The Athletics games were fun, but it was not the best product."
"The players were amateurs, the referees let fights happen during the game and on the sidelines, and the games never even started on time."
"The league was two teams from Houston and a team from Plano. To make a season, they played those same three teams four times each."
"There was no investment into the fan experience. When you sang the national anthem, no one could hear you because of cheap audio equipment."
"The concessions were some food trucks parked on the other side of the stadium that no one went to."
"It was completely underfunded. Grassroots is a polite way to say doing everything cheap." The Drillers charge soccer fans more $$$ for seats with poor viewing angles than they charge baseball fans for great seats.
Our club and our team have worked their butts off over the past three years, dealt with lease terms worse than what the Drillers had when they played there... and IMO the Athletics deserved a helluva lot better fate than to have the rug pulled out from under them by the Drillers only weeks after our first successful season in which we drew over 3,300 fans per game.
Our team built upon winning our 4-team division in our first season, won our 8-team division in our second season, and finished a disappointing 3rd out of 8 teams this past season but still have been the highest scoring team in our conference every year of our existence.
Our stadium has hosted the Tulsa Rugby Club and Tulsa Buffaloes aussie rules football team, and will host ultimate frisbee as well this summer...
Our conference now has a total of eleven teams, including new clubs in Little Rock playing at War Memorial Stadium, Shreveport, and a Houston club that had been playing in a rival league controlled by USL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_NPSL_season#South_Central_ConferenceWe have some of the best players from TU, ORU, RSU, NSU and a few players coming in from Creighton, UNC-Wilmington and another guy from Syracuse.
All tickets are $7 with Opening Day coming up 5/7