As long as OutKast - ATliens is the intro song of the new Atlanta franchise, I'm all for it.
That whole album was my jam when I was in high school. I met the two at the studio and walked out with an autographed poster and a promo copy of the "Elevators" single. Unfortunately, I no longer have the poster.
Right because it worked oh so well before…
Didn't Atlanta already fail twice? Flames, Trashers. Yea let's try this again.
It could've, had Tom Cousins not have to sell the Flames in 1979, and Ted Turner actually cared enough to put people who actually knew what they were doing in charge... and let's not forget the sale to an ownership group who didn't even want the team solely because the son of Ted Turner was a member of the group.
"Hey, uh, *looks at notes* Don? Yeah, Don, okay... I have this franchise. Here's $14 million that the Braves and Hawks didn't use for your payroll, and here's some old plane we found for transporting prisoners from 1969. Good luck!"
Yeah, lemme tell ya. A real recipe for success this was. It's easy to see why the Thrashers didn't succeed when they were never given a chance. There's a reason why people constantly tell others that "with the right ownership, it'll work". Hell, you could resurrect Bill Wirtz and get him to own a team in Atlanta, and it'd *still* fare better than the Thrashers did.