You really think the reason the Roughnecks ownership bought a professional USL team to move to Tulsa is because the Athletics drew 3,000 fans to an amateur game?
You must have a screw loose.
No, Michael.
You're the one who got his panties in a bunch last spring when some of our Athletics fans got on your case.
And now you're attacking my character.
People in this town have been wanting a professional team long before the Athletics. Don't you remember an exhibition game at TU during LaFortune's years?
I supported his efforts. You didn't.
You wanted a new ballpark for the Drillers instead.
You went on and on about how a "soccer specific stadium" could only be used for soccer.
I don't want to be the Drillers orange-headed stepchild when we can be first tenant at 15th and Yale... sorry.
I'm sure there will be plenty of people buying tickets to watch the
Tulsa Thundercats.I hope the Athletics will be able to survive. But I don't think they can survive more than a few years at 15th & Yale unless they get into the NASL.
Do you not think the recent success of TU soccer had any effect?
TU soccer has been successful for many years, but that didn't have any influence on the construction of soccer-unfriendly ONEOk Field.
I was at the TU game last Friday night. You weren't. So you really shouldn't attempt to lecture me on the subject.
Several members of our supporters group were there too. Some of us will support the new Roughnecks, some of us (like me) won't.
Free country.
No. According to you, it is all because you and your friends found a unused baseball stadium, painted it green and had some amateur matches that caused another group to suddenly spend big bucks to bring in a professional team.
Now you're just being dismissive. And on top of that, you're being a dick.
I will always have more respect for the hard work the staff at the Tulsa Athletics have done than I will ever have for trust-fund babies with money to burn.
I'm convinced the Hubbard brothers would have never taken the plunge had it not been for the OKC people who bankrolled it in a pissing match with the Lunds.
I simply don't like it when a well financed group tries to jerk the rug out from under good local folks who've put their butts on the line in our city and transformed the old ballpark into a soccer specific facility Tulsa can be proud of. Especially when I consider those folks to be my friends.
And yes... I like being first tenant in that old tin can of a stadium...[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT_KPWnybug[/youtube]
Let me tell you, people have been talking about a professional team in Tulsa for many years.
And let me tell you, I know a helluva lot more about this than you do, so maybe you should just quit while you're behind.
Evidently, according to you, the Drillers can do no wrong and the Athletics are just cheap...
If you really think that YOU caused the Roughnecks organization to do this, you are suffering from some real mental disorders.
Someone's cranky and probably needs a nap.
Once again, you attack my character.
Do we have moderators on this site or not?
I would think you would work on your own product, try to build your own fan base, and try and find funding to complete your dream of moving up. Instead, all your energy is spent negatively attacking the other team as if they were the enemy.
Wow. You really are bitter about this, RM.
I believe to this day, that if it weren't for the conflicts of interest between rival groups in OKC, the Athletics would have announced a new NASL team by now for 2015 or 2016.
And maybe the Drillers would simply be good neighbors.
Instead of trying to eat us.