Reader feedback Pt. III
By Robert Przybylo
BPrzybylo@opubco.com
And one more batch. Thanks for all who chimed in. You guys deserve to have your say. This is your blog as much as it is mine (until it comes to Da Blackhawks, then it’s just mine).
I’ve sent out a lot of feelers to people for more reaction, so keep checking back. And for those wondering, play-by-play announcer Jim Byers elected to not say anything. He just felt he had nothing really to add. He was shocked and disappointed like everyone else. I’ll try to talk to him more in the next week at some RedHawks games.
Last batch:
“I have been a Blazer fan since they played at the Fair grounds and this really sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had the feeling the City would do this to us Blazer fans as soon as they got the Thunder in town, all of sudden we aren’t good enough for the City to stand behind and promote, this really makes me mad, that they will pay out thousands of dollars for the NBA, bend over backwards to reach their demands making everything perfect for the NBA and not sponsor something the middle class people can afford to go to and enjoy as a family or with a group of friends, I have made a lot of friends at the hockey games and looked forward to seeing them every October. This is the saddest day for all OKC BLAZER FANS. The City and Bob Funk Jr really disappointed a lot of fans.” – Teresa Woods
“Longtime Blazer season ticket holder — from the Fairgrounds days, the Myriad days and the current CHL to the Ford center. This is just another pause in after several more chapters in the book for OKC hockey. There will be more coming! OKC is too big of a market for an AHL or CHL team to stay out.
I don’t know the total fans through the gates from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s but I’m sure if you added them all up it would be one of the top draws in any minor league sport in any minor league city — can you spell SUCCESS and great entertainment value — you spell it with OKC Blazers. We wish all the staff and players well. Let’s hope we can drop a puck in 2010 and who knows — maybe some capitalist will find a way to get a puck dropped by this fall. Stranger things have happened and thank goodness in a capitalistic free market — build it and they will come…..the Myriad is built and is waiting. Let’s hope the City is working to make someone a great offer and then the city and owners should creatively market the Thunder / Blazer or (new team name) product to the region for Fri and Sat night visits to the OKC brick for b-ball/puck weekend packages……Successfully putting the icing on the cake to an outstanding entertainment venue — Ford Center and Myriad right next to each other with Bricktown to boot — keep ringing those cash registers. As a staunch at tender of sports events — we will miss the season tickets with the Blazers. With the long history of the overall downtown sports support from the old hockey hounds of the early CHL farm club Blazers to the all sports association…..let’s hope the OKC civic leaders get behind efforts to keep hockey in OKC.” – Ken Carson
“We have been a Blazers fan for 2 1/2 years. We made the trip from Hinton to every home game the last 1 1/2 years and every meet and greet. That’s a 1 hour drive to be there & support our Blazers. We have had a lot of fun going to the hockey games and getting to meet and know the players. They have all been so nice to us they’re like family. My family is devastated about this! This is like loosing a family member. I have a 14 year old handicapped child and all of the guys this last year were so great to Shayla a lot of the guys knew her by her name and that was so cool it was like she had all these big brothers. The office staff was all so nice to us. Good luck to all the Blazers we will miss you!!!!! Goose you are the best!!” – Janet Davidson, Hinton
“We were very saddened to hear about the Blazers. We’ve been season ticket holders for 17 years. Mainly we were fans because of the affordability to go to all the games, plus the availability of the players, who interacted with the fans and booster club. We looked online to see the ticket prices for the Edmonton Oilers and it looks like we won’t be able to afford season tickets for the AHL.” – Paula and Larry Langston
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