Redhook Blog

I lived in Seattle in the mid 80s, going to Sonics games and drinking pre-IPO Red Hook in places like the College Inn Pub. My $.02 is to let it go. Sure, winning more would help but that’s like saying Jack Sikma tanned well. the team did not have the area support that the Seahawks, Huskies football team or even the Mariners have. There was no Paul Allen willing to prop them up with his own money. If you want a team that bleeds the taxpayers dry to stat in town, look at the Cincinnati Bengals. It wold br great if they still represented Seattle but not the end of the world. If that were the case you should boycott flights on Boeing planes. I’d say jump on an Airbus and come to Portsmouth, NH and we can go see the Celtics, but sadly that won’t happen for a few months.

I lived in Seattle in the mid 80s, going to Sonics games and drinking pre-IPO Red Hook in places like the College Inn Pub. My $.02 is to let it go. Sure, winning more would help but that’s like saying Jack Sikma tanned well. the team did not have the area support that the Seahawks, Huskies football team or even the Mariners have. There was no Paul Allen willing to prop them up with his own money. If you want a team that bleeds the taxpayers dry to stat in town, look at the Cincinnati Bengals. It wold br great if they still represented Seattle but not the end of the world. If that were the case you should boycott flights on Boeing planes. I’d say jump on an Airbus and come to Portsmouth, NH and we can go see the Celtics, but sadly that won’t happen for a few months.

no mention of the amazing documentary Sonicsgate? you guys should show it on a summer movie night.

there was someone wanting to buy the team, but clay bennett and his group would not sell. their whole intention was to move the team by deception

I noticed you edited the *uck the Thunder t-shirt above and claimed you are family friendly. Does anybody there have any children? Every day I have to go over the Ballard bridge here in Seattle and sometimes I have a child with me. And they get to read that billboard of yours, mentioning “threesomes” as a reason to learn how to play the guitar. Imagine having to explain that to a child, or them even learning that word. In the past I’ve enjoyed your beer, and I’m not the type to write letters of complaint or to boycott a product, but you’ve inspired me.

It seems that your marketing department has decided to make the product more edgy with a whole collection of nasty billboards – I hope you someday realize that the short term gain isn’t worth the damage you do. You should expect more from yourselves. A billboard is impossible to avoid – you have a responsibility to the community to respect the children and just general decency.

After reading that, I think you have bigger issues. Like explaining to your kid why you, his daddy, is gay.

You (sonicsf fans) Need to get a life and move on