Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Sonic fans continues to get screwed by Former Owner

So growing up in the Northwest I was a huge Sonic Fan.  Watching Kemp, and Payton truly made me even a stronger fan.  It was a Joy watching them growing up even bench players like Michael Cage sure brought a lot of excitement on the table.  There was only one big problem their owner.  Howard Schultz who yes was the Starbucks Owner was probably one of the worst owners in professional sports.  Whats it worse is this could have been a good thing.  You See Schultz was the founder of Starbucks which as you may already know was Seattle own product.  This could have been a match made in Heaven Usually Most owners are not from where the teams are represented.  To think a team that won a championship 1979 and that was in Seattle for over 33 years is just sad.  Yet finally at least two fans got their retribution


Seattle SuperSonics logoAccording to http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Former-SuperSonics-owner-has-Sonics-fans-tossed-?urn=nba-wp1125


Adam Brown, producer of the Webby Award-winning 2009 documentary "Sonicsgate: Requiem for a Team" detailing the Sonics' scandalous relocation, was walking past the front of the line when [Scott] Pattison motioned for him to "Watch this" before beginning his rant at Schultz.  Brown proceeded to record the incident on a FlipCam before walking to the back of the line.

Closer analysis of the video shows Schultz pointing at Brown and saying "That guy right there!" to signal for Brown's ejection even before Pattison begins accosting Schultz.  Brown and Pattison did not know each other prior to Friday's events, and the two have never spoken outside of the exchange caught on camera.

Following Pattison's outburst, Brown stood quietly in line wearing a Sonics hat and shirt before store security and police escorted him out of the building.  Officials refused to provide a legitimate reason for ejecting the longtime Costco member, only saying that "Howard doesn't want you here, so Costco doesn't want you here."  Brown managed to roll a few more seconds of video and left peacefully without incident.


Here is that footage from the FlipCam




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