The Portland Fire is taking their community pledge to Portland so seriously and THANK YOU FROM SEI!
I'm a dad of three girls and coach youth basketball, so I was pretty excited when I heard the Fire was coming back. I figured maybe our girls would get some chances to meet players or be part of something. We've gotten tickets from other pro teams before, usually way up in the nosebleeds and we're always thankful but sometimes you feel like an afterthought/seat fillers. SEI kids got to sit in club seats this year and it was so cool to watch with my girls because of the Fire gifting.
An I gotta give the Fire some credit. I was at the SEI event where they gave out $10,000 in scholarships, and I was really impressed. I can't remember the names of the two women from the Fire but they were talking to everybody, joking with the kids and just being genuinely niceb professional but you could tell they understood the assignment ,the kids.
My daughter didn't get picked for a scholarship, but she still left feeling pretty special. That meant a lot to me as her dad. I also saw someone mention that they showed up at Benson after the incident and didn't make a big social media thing out of it. This post is ours not theirs I haven't seen one from them and I respect that. I know they're a new team and can't do everything, but it's nice seeing people actually show up for our kids. Hope they keep it going. Portland needs more of that.