Tulsa has always missed the boat or car when it comes to any type of auto racing. They (the paper and other media) in Tulsa has it heads up stick and ball sports rearend so far they cannot see another sports.
Or as I have in the past 20-30 years sports reporters are lazy, they will not learn about another sport outside of what they now cover.

Tulsa ran off the NHRA world finals
in the late 60's. THAT event is
worth about 12-15 million in tourist dollars at it's present site, or about what the present Chile Bowl is worth to "T" town.

Both events are NOT property tax funded HS sports, they are free interprise.

I would like to say to one and all. Why would you even think of letting this event leave your town. Emmit Hahn and the staff he puts togather for this event are second to none. My team and family have been attending the Chili Bowl for the last 6 years. We have come to know some of the staff that work the event. One group that does not get the thanks for all the hard work they put into makeing the show the show it is the group that watches the doors and helps everyone at the gates to the ramp to the track its self. We have only had one person of the group as we call them the flying bee's because they do it all. IE worker Bee's that we do not care to deal with. He told my husband he was the person in charge of all the staff for the chili bowl he said he is name was Daryl. On the night of the A-main we watched him Cus out a young girl at the top of the ramp to the track and then he went over to on other gentelman on the ramp and cussed him out too. The girl could not have been more the 15 years old. I asked who he was he turned to me and told me mind my own ------- bizz. I dont know what the girl had done but I know myself and many others around us did not care to see the way this girl was being treated by this man. I feel he does not need to be working around this outstanding group of people. I was truly shocked that someone in the crowd did not start a fight with this man after the way he did the girl.

You know there are a lot of people out there dishing Daryl from the Chili Bowl without even knowing the facts. First of all, I know all about his yelling at the young girl. This girl was his neice and he didn't start yelling at her until after she refused to be moved to another location. I know becasue I heard and saw everything that happened. Yes he was in charge of staff and that meant he was also in charge of her. She was not doing anything at her station, she wasn't ever checking wrist bands AS WAS HER DUTY! Other staff members asked to have her moved to another location. And as for the man he yelled at, well that was his brother in law...a guy that only shows up to the chili bowl for a free pass and doesn't doing anything but walk around, mostly watching the races when he's supposed to be working like the other staff members. So I suggest everyone minding their own business just like this Daryl supposedly told you to do especially since it was a family squabble and you don't know all the facts.