Oklahoma City and who let the dogs out?

In an NBA playoff game between the Okla City Thunder and the Memp Grizzlies (played in OKC), all the fans in attendance were wearing shirts obviously handed out to them as they arrived at the arena. One entire section featured blue, the next white, and it alternated around the entire venue. Yet whether they were blue with white letters, or white with blue letters, every last person in there wore a shirt that said "we are committed" on the front.

Well then. That seemed appropriate. When 20,000 people come together in the same place to line up like rabid lemmings on steroids -- they OUGHT to have been committed somewhere along the line.

The question then becomes -- who unlocked the doors of all the padded cells and turned this horde of lunatics loose in the first place?

Given the Thunder would go on to lose the game to the Grizzlies in overtime, it's likely all those "committed" people were hitting the streets in a foul mood. It would appear those folks in the white institutional uniforms, sporting their handy-dandy hypos of la-la land juice, will have their work cut out for them rounding this crazed herd back up again and putting them back where they belong.

Here's hoping Okla City learned a lesson from this. If they ever try to pull a publicity stunt like that again, forget the blue and white tee shirt color scheme. Make it something more easily identifiable to the unsuspecting public. Like jail-house orange. Or black and white stripes. Better yet, forget the shirts entirely. Put them in handcuffs and leg-irons as they pass through the turnstiles. The lives of innocent women, children, grandmas and puppy dogs might well depend on it before the night is done.