Oklahoma City: Real Chill
A couple weeks ago an ominously-headlined story on ESPN ended up bringing a smile to folks here in Oklahoma City. New York City-based travel writer Robert Reid took notice:
In the most underrated travel story of our young decade, veteran NBA guard Kevin Ollie spoke to ESPN about his new home, Oklahoma City — a place that has the reputation as something of an “NBA purgatory.” Ie The last place you’d want to be traded to.
But Ollie joined fellow Thunder players to defend it, and talk up post-game ballyhoo around Bricktown’s Flaming Lips Alley, food at Mickey Mantle’s Steakhouse, before returning home to “play the crib” early.
Ollie said, “It’s not LA or Miami, but it’s cool here. REAL CHILL.”
The Oklahoma City CVB should take note. Currently Oklahoma’s capital — and one of a handful of cities I’ve voted as the best made-over ugly-duckings around the USA — has no tourism pitch phrase, slogan, moniker.
How about ‘Oklahoma City: Real Chill’?
Well folks, what do you think?
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Comments
dang! the thunder would be more awesome and kickin’ it with Blake Griffin and Durant.
I’ll vote for ‘Chris Birdman did coke here-so should you!’
I like it, but I think we should stick to “chill” in its purest form, and avoid its offspring, like chill-ax, chill’n, chill-adelic, and chill-ability. If we can do that, I’m totally cool with it.
Off topic, but is anyone having trouble accessing the site through the okccentral.com URL? I get a sedoparking.com page when I go there and yes, I’ve checked to make sure I’m spelling everything correctly.
I like it…and the CVB should run with it. BTW, what ever happened to “The Big Friendly”?