Having grown up in a suburb of Seattle I wasn’t really too aware of lacrosse. When we thought of lacrosse we always conjured up images of stuffy rich kids at private schools – they were the only ones that played the sport in the area and even then it never got a lot of attention. I more or less forgot all about it until moving to Portland where I found out about the LumberJax. I tried to get interested, hell, I even tried watching a few games but it was just never my bag. Nothing against the LumberJax organization or lacrosse in general, I just didn’t really get it.
Well, unfortunately it looks like the rest of Portland didn’t really get it either and now we are set to bid a fond farewell to one of the few Portland area sports teams as the LumberJax announced yesterday that they’re looking to move the team because they just can’t afford to keep the lights on around here. Frankly I’m sort of surprised really – it would seem a perfect fit, a sport that few people know about or understand (or maybe it’s just me, who knows) works perfectly in a city like Portland, at least on paper. Call it “weird meets weird”. How could it fail?
$300,000.00 in sponsorship decline will do it every time.
So now they have their sights on Seattle as a potential new home. Seriously? Seattle couldn’t even keep a damn NBA team around and you’re figuring there’s a market there? Why not ride the season out in Portland and see if the economy as a whole doesn’t turn around? The LumberJax are still a young franchise and they’re playing in a city with extremely high unemployment right now – what do you expect?
Seems lame because it is lame.
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