Talons future up in the air
The Tulsa Talons ended a frustrating, disappointing 2011 Arena Football League season on a winning note as questions lingered about the future of the franchise.
Was Saturday's 71-55 road victory over the Kansas City Command the last gasp in Tulsa's 12-year experiment with indoor pro football?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.
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