Tiger the biggest celebrity ever to come to Tulsa?

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by brunoflipper

U2 played here, twice
Google gives them 45 million hits

Thanks for reminding me of one of my worst entertainment faux pas... I had tix for their last appearance, but was in summer school and had an exam the next day.  I gave my tix away believing they'd be back the next year.

Wrong.

[Conan71]

Tiger?  Biggest celeb of his time to visit.  I don't think you can mine a negative out of him being here, though I'm sure there are some in the peanut gallery who will find something negative.

He definitely brings money through the gate when he is playing at a tournament.  It's a rare opportunity to be that close to greatness.  I'd guess as far as one single person appearing at an event here in Tulsa who had the capability to bring so many people in from other parts of the region and country- Tiger hands-down.

Consider Garth Brooks playing to what, 10,000 fans at Driller's Stadium.  Caruso playing to 2,000 or so at the Brady, Elvis to 8,000 or so, Frank Sinatra 8,000 or so.  None of them would have likely gotten so many people to fly and drive to Tulsa from more than a 100 mile radius.  None of those events are even newsworthy on a national scale and don't bring days upon days of news coverage to the area.  I really appreciate the folks at Southern Hills making the sacrifice in their recreation to bring something this big to our city.

Even if Tony Stewart quit competing at the Chili Bowl, I don't think ticket sales or pit pass sales would suffer to any noticeable extent.

Do we have a final count yet on PGA attendance?

[AMP]

Updates on the Celebs that visited Tulsa list

Here are the Google search results, for whatever they are worth:

Elvis 48,300,000
U2 45,300,000
Hanson 29,700,000
Tiger Woods 12,300,000
Caruso 10,700,000
Hillary Clinton 5,240,000
Led Zeppelin 3,200,000
Bon Jovi 2,730,000
Francis Ford Copolla 2,720,000
Marilyn Monroe 2,680,000
Eric Clapton 2,550,000
Alice Cooper 2,370,000
Al Yankovic 2,340,000
Willie Nelson 2,240,000
John F. Kennedy 2,220,000
Neil Diamond 2,080,000
Oral Roberts 2,030,000
Carrie Underwood 2,000,000
Will Rogers 1,860,000
Dennis Hopper 1,850,000
Howard Hughes 1,830,000
Tony Stewart 1,800,000
Jeff Gordon 1,790,000
Matt Dillon 1,650,000
Mickey Rourke 1,500,000
Amelia Earhart 1,140,000
Rob Lowe 1,030,000
Charles Lindbergh 845,000
Evel Knievel 670,000
Bob Wills 491,000
John Force 184,000
John Zink 73,600
Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney 38,600

Once again proving the statement "Elvis is King"

[RecycleMichael]

Tiger in Tulsa will go down in many a Tulsan's mind as the biggest celebrity ever to visit and the fact that he was here for a week compounds his impact.

How long was "Weird" Al Yankovich here?

[AMP]

Many of us remeber the day of the filming of the Outsiders, and Rumble Fish.  We provided the motorcycles for the Rumble Fish movie and Action Cycles is listed on the credits.  It was very interesting working with the film crews.  Crazy bunch of party people, tons of wild parties at the old Trade Winds motel, and the brick apartments downtown that are no longer there.  

I stil have one of the hand painted store front signs used in Rumble Fish that was in the scene filmed downtown.

Unfortunatly the paint has faded away on the old Bankoff Metals sign on Archer west of peoria that once read "The Motorcycle Boy Rules"

[waterboy]

Did anyone mention Amelia Earhart with her gyro plane or Lindberg and the Spirit of St.Louis back in the 1930's? Had to have been pretty big stuff then.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

Did anyone mention Amelia Earhart with her gyro plane or Lindberg and the Spirit of St.Louis back in the 1930's? Had to have been pretty big stuff then.

Ok fine.  But what was Lindberg's golf handicap?  Did Amelia have a huge endorsement deal with Nike? [}:)]

Lindberg was definitely the celeb of the hour when he did his tour of America after the Atlantic crossing.  That was considered the biggest human feat at the time.

Cool part about Tiger is Southern Hills is now a part of his legend.  That's good for Tulsa.

Outside economic impact on our city?  Tiger trumps all.

[deinstein]

Micheal Bates still lives here, bros.

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by marc

While The Beatles never played Tulsa (or anywhere in Oklahoma), George Harrison did perform here in 1974. Elvis Presley played numerous concerts, the first in 1956, and the last one on July 4, 1976.

And didn't Eric clapton get himself arrested in Tulsa back in the 1970s?

[aoxamaxoa]

quote:Originally posted by mr.jaynes

quote:Originally posted by marc

While The Beatles never played Tulsa (or anywhere in Oklahoma), George Harrison did perform here in 1974. Elvis Presley played numerous concerts, the first in 1956, and the last one on July 4, 1976.

And didn't Eric clapton get himself arrested in Tulsa back in the 1970s?

Calling Jeff Nix....

[Aa5drvr]

>Don't forget Shirley Muldowney!

Back in those days she was Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney!

Bring your cameraaaaaaas!

[TulsaTV]

quote:Originally posted by mr.jaynes

And didn't Eric clapton get himself arrested in Tulsa back in the 1970s?

Yes he did; see a photo here: http://tulsatvmemories.com/rocknock.html

[Johnboy976]

Let's see...

Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Tom Cruise
The Sex Pistols
Jay Leno
Donna Reed (she had a house here)
Billy and Franklin Graham
Paul Harvey
Pillar (a VERY popular Christian band who is from here)
Roy Clark
Gene Autry
Brad Pitt (has many relatives from here too)

[TulsaEx]

It's possible that Tiger wasn't even the biggest celebrity in town last week.  

Love her or hate her, Hillary Clinton was also in town and is arguably better known worldwide than Tiger.

Her google hits are in the 8 million range.

[bluelake]

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