Patrick covered this topic last week, but I am a Tulsan and I have not yet said my piece.
Tulsa hosting the Olympics is one of those perfect stories I hope becomes news. It is laughable, semi-realistic and controversial. It is exactly the type of leadership proposal that I usually make fun of, but “¦ I really like this idea.
Wipe the coffee off your screens.
I think Tulsa could pull it off, and this is coming from the most positively pessimistic person that I know.
We are talking 11 years from now. That is plenty of time to build the structures Tulsa needs, such as these Downtown Olympic Signs, as long as I’m not in charge. I have a bad habit of waiting until the day before a deadline to begin a project, or at 5 a.m. on Tuesday if it’s a Lost Ogle post.
However, if Tulsa does successfully win a bid for the Olympics, I expect a few Oklahoma events:
“¢ Okie Noodling
“¢ 50-Yard Child-Locked-in-a-Hot-Car-in-a-Walmart-Parking-Lot Dash
“¢ Rhythmic Wife Tossing
“¢ Synchronized Meth Baking
“¢ Forehead Can Crushing
“¢ Pothole Diving
“¢ Water Biking
“¢ Fish Archery
“¢ Testicular Volleyball
“¢ Freestyle Fornicating
I also expect the stadium to be a T.G.I. Friday’s parking lot with folding chairs.
Now that I think about, maybe I don’t like this idea.
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This is a city that shot down a 0.4% sales tax to turn Riverside into a Bricktown type district…I think you’ll need far more than 11 years to convince Tulsans to invest in their city.
If this is to happen, then there is no way Chicago can get the Olympics in 2016. The committee will not allow the Olympics to be played in the same country two times in a row. So this means Obama will have to fail at bringing the Olympics to his hometown…
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=4310553
Good luck…Tulsans are completely fooling themselves, they’d be better off vowing for the 2036 Olympics.
Hmmmm, this post looks extremely familiar. I know that there isn’t much going on in Tulsa these days, but simply re-writing what Patrick and Elliot have written the week before seems a little lazy. I wasn’t sure I could look forward to Tuesdays on this site any less, but now I know…
Clark, that tax would have built some dams and remodeled part of the river bed to make it narrower, but it wouldn’t have created a Bricktown type district. The private company that built Branson Landing wanted to do the same thing on the west bank of the Arkansas at 21st St. (an area that is already served by a lake). All they wanted was a TIF district and the opportunity to buy some city-owned land. Kathy Taylor blew them off.
Peace. Admittedly, it would be cool.
So does every TLO contributor now have to offer his own variation of the same jokes about the same news story?
Clark: I think the city is under the illusion that private investors will cover most of the costs.
Local Yokel: Not on purpose. I had only read Patrick’s post when I wrote this. I just read Eliot’s. Oops.
No problem I.T. . . . glad to see that great minds think alike, especially on the noodling and meth-bakin’!
I may be changing my handle to The Constipated Edmond.
Irritated Ogler: I’m sorry about the slow news week. Next week, I’ll douse myself with gasoline and set me on fire. That should be interesting. Eliot, Patrick, please don’t go ablaze before I do.
With all the churches in Tulsa and not a joke about a “Church/pray Crawl” or something more creative?
Very disappointed in this blog post.