You see maybe close to a million fans at this, the Sounders and Huskies football team sell out all their home games, the Mariners average over 21,000 depsite consistently losing. Swin Cash used to call Storm fans Stormcrazies. The city can build on all this and bring in some national sporting events. And hey, David Stern? Wanna know why the NBA didn’t work here? First off, it did. Second, mabye the product at the time SUCKED. I think 2013 has shown it’s a sport town big time.
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