This Monday at 4:30pm, the Save Our Sonics Organization is hosting a rally on the courthouse steps (700 Stewart St., Seattle). Sonics legends Gary Payton and Xavier McDaniel are confirmed to attend and speak at 4:30 pm. Other Sonics Legends have been invited and are expected to appear.
Now whether you are a die-hard fan, casual observer or don’t even care and just live and work in Seattle, here are 5 (or 7) reasons you should show support.
- For the first time ever, a city and state did not bow down to a league that demanded a new tax-payer funded stadium. You should show that a league should not punish a city for this appropriate action.
- Over 41 years, more than 20,000,000 people have watched Sonics games in person. That’s a piece of history that should stay – and I bet it’s more than have watched the symphony, opera and ballet combined.
- You cannot idly sit by and watch an Oklahoma Oil Baron (who is also a Republican) come rob the eco-friendly Pacific Northwest of one of its assets.
- At least some of your friends care about this, so you should support them. They contribute to your Sierra Club, Humane Society and kid’s school’s auctions. This doesn’t even cost you anything.
- It’s happy hour in Seattle – what an excuse to kill an hour off your work day on a Monday?
- David Stern is proving to be an arrogant, very bad man. Don’t let him get away with this without Seattle making some noise.
- There’s about a 1% chance the team survives. If that miracle occurs, 34 years from now on the Sonics 75th anniversary, don’t you want to tell your grand-kids, "I was at the rally that proved to be the turning point."
Get there – do your part. Make it a huge rally that gets on the national news.
