This just in…
the Sonics are history. They are moving to Oklahoma City.
That one Championship year in 1979 will not be forgotten, nor will the fact that the Supersonics were the city’s first professional sports team. As much as I’m trying to be positive about the team’s legacy, this latest lawsuit and settlement is a sad and pathetic whimper of a closing chapter. In fact, it’s not a far cry from the
Seattle Totems last days. With that said, can another NBA team in Seattle really work
? Let’s have a look at the home of the Sonics, Key Arena (formerly Coliseum 21, built for the 1962 World’s Fair). Click on the thumbnails and pour out a “foty ounce” for our Sonics.
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| Coliseum 21 the fabulous theme building of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. Featured in this World of Tomorrow are fascinating predictions of how man will work, live and play in the year 2000. This unique pavilion rises as tall as an 11-story building. |
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| Coliseum 21 at night. Color photo by Mike Roberts. |
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| The Seattle Coliseum, home of the Seattle Totems ice-hockey team, was built for the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962, and after thorough remodeling, is now an impressive arena for indoor-sports like ice-hockey, basketball, boxing, and an ideal hall for national conventions. It has a flexible seating capacity of up to 18,000 and reaches a height of 110 feet in the center. Color photo by Max R Jensen. |
An NBA team can work in Seattle if one, and only one player comes out of retirement. That player? Detlef freakin’ Schrempf.
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its about time they got those idiots outta here,now all ya gotta do is get rid of the other stinkin sports stadiums I was forced to pay for!
The NBA playoffs right now make me miss the Sonics so much.
The first Sonic game I attended was back when Lenny Wilkins was a player on the team. 1971. I won two tickets for going door-to-door to get PI subscriptions. I was in 5th grade at the time. My dad went with me and we sat in the very top of the Coliseum (the nose bleed section). We had a blast. After I turned 18, and the Sonics won the NBA Championship, I wrote out an excuse to get out of school early, then took a Metro bus to downtown Seattle to cheer our winning team on. Had lunch at Wendy’s and then went to the Bon to buy a Sonics teeshirt.