There's not enough room inside the hearing room on the ground floor of City Hall, where Goldy is stationed. Both the city and county councils are listening to testimony tonight in favor and opposed to a new arena in Sodo. But I gotta say, by the looks of the crowd, it's stacked with fans who aren't persnickety about the details of the financing arrangement, aren't fussing over the traffic impacts, aren't questioning whether Key Arena could work as an alternative site, and aren't deterred by the complicated issues of a jointly funded private-public stadium. They're here to bring back the Sonics. And so many of them are here—in Sonics jerseys, Sonics headbands, Sonics warm-up jackets, Sonics stickers, and lots of t-shirts that say "We were robbed"—that they can't all fit in the room. Here's city staffer Megan Coppersmith directing fans into an overflow room:

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Brent Kremen just approached me. He's a major Sonics fan, and he's going to testify in his Kevin Durant jersey and Sonics shorts (he's also carrying two Sonics t-shirts and carrying several old Sonics game ticket stubs). "They say nobody is going to travel from out of town to see the Sonics," Kremen says. But he's got a shirt from 2000 when he traveled all the way to Vancouver to see the Sonics play the Grizzlies, which proves the arena will bring fans to Seattle to spend money. "I want the Sonics to come back, and as long as Chris Hansen is going to take over Key Arena as well and make sure that doesn't lose money for the city, let's do this."

Will the council ignore them?

Only if they want to be remembered by this crowd for killing the Sonics—again.