After this weeks impressive win over the Kansas City Command many fans have begun to speculate that they had just watched the last Tulsa Talons game ever. However, the franchise sparked with some life this morning as the Tulsa world reported on rumors that a former Drillers owner may be interested in purchasing a share of the Talons to keep the franchise in Tulsa. From the Tulsa World:
The team's five-man ownership group will determine over the next several weeks whether the Talons will play a third AFL season in Tulsa, be sold to other investors and possibly moved to another city or die a quiet death.
Reports surfaced over the weekend that a local group headed by former Tulsa Drillers owner Chuck Lamson was interested in buying the team. Lamson would neither confirm nor deny the report.
Paul Ross and Henry Primeaux, who partnered in buying the team from Tulsa Oilers hockey owner Jeff Lund in 2004, each own 25 percent of the team. An additional one-fourth is owned by Michael Johnson, former chief administrative officer for Williams Cos. Inc. Another one-fourth is shared by Tulsa Shock owners Bill Cameron and David Box.
The Talons have a Sept. 15 deadline for notifying the AFL of their intention to participate in the 2012 season.
Ross, chairman of the AFL's finance committee, said it is too early to predict what will happen.
"It's no different than last year or the year before. It's a business decision and we don't have all our information together yet," he said.
Primeaux said he was working hard to keep the team in Tulsa.
"It belongs to the city and it should be here, but the city needs to support it," Primeaux said.
Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/article.aspx?subjectid=407&articleid=20110725_223_B1_CUTLIN554418
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