The best thing about revisiting the Glendale City Council meeting on Wednesday night, in which they cancelled their arena lease with the Arizona Coyotes, is that it scratched my “Parks and Recreation” itch.

There was the outsized vitriol from Arizona Coyotes fans, channeling years of frustration from the council’s administrative clownishness into passionate roasts of each member. There were the petty local politics, in which a signed contract was sought to be cancelled through some obtuse loophole. Really, we were one Leslie Knope speech and April Ludgate eye-roll away from a lost episode.

Oh, but there was a speech. Boy was there. Ronda Pearson, who goes by @CenterIceSweety on Twitter, laid the ever-loving smack down on the council members that wear sports like a costume:

“I go to all Coyotes games because I've been a season-ticket holder for several years now -- full season -- not a half season, not a partial season -- full season. I've seen you at games, so many games, a number of times sporting a jersey that looks just like this one with 'Mayor' on the back and 'Number 1' on the back.

“How much did you pay for your jersey? How much did you pay for your tickets for those games? Because I know I paid a hell of a lot more than you did. I support this team. You don't. You don't show up to games and pay for your tickets! None of you do.

"Why were you at the Super Bowl? Because you didn't buy a ticket -- someone gave you tickets. What happened to all the events that comes with the Super Bowl? The NFL moved them to Scottsdale because of you.

"Look at all these people who showed up supporting this team last minute. I hauled butt to get here, so I could speak my mind. Because I support this team. It's you that doesn't support any sport in this city -- not football and certainly not hockey.

"What you're doing is childish and it's pathetic and it's disrespectful to the citizens who voted you in office. And for all of us who spent so much time and energy supporting this team when you never did."

We are all Center Ice Sweety.

In the end, none of this grandstanding mattered, because the council had already decided that the best way to sweeten the deal they agreed to with the Coyotes was to cancel the current contract. The city of Glendale lost $8.1 million on its $15 million investment last year, and is projected to lose $8.7 million this year, a year in which the Coyotes were abjectly terrible before they were intentionally terrible in an effort to gain the top pick in the draft.

So they ginned up some reasons to break the deal. Like the inference that Craig Tindall, a former Glendale city attorney, worked for the Coyotes in 2013 while getting severance from Glendale. According to the Arizona Republic, “the State Bar of Arizona last summer found that there was no merit” to that complaint. And yet, it was cited last night, if vaguely.

There likely other lawerly loopholes and such that the city will fall back on. And the Coyotes will respond in kind with a flurry of lawsuits against the city – not only to force an injunction against the cancellation of the lease.

From the Coyotes:

After the vote, attorney Nicholas Wood said the team would file for injunctive relief and a temporary restraining order, and file a $200 million lawsuit against the City.

"What we have witnessed here tonight is possibly the most shameful exhibition of government I have ever witnessed," Coyotes Co-Owner, President and CEO Anthony LeBlanc said. "The citizens of Glendale should be very concerned about the government that they have leading them right now, because this was not appropriate… We have been absolutely wronged this evening by a group that is acting in incredibly bad faith."

He added: "Our view is the team will remain here, but the City is not acting in a business-friendly way and should be ashamed."

The lawsuit is going to include claims that the actions of the city council have harmed the Coyotes’ ability to generate revenue. And there’s zero chance they wouldn’t win that lawsuit if it’s found the council’s actions were without merit here.

You have to love the self-defeating logic by Glendale, in which their actions prevent the Coyotes from turning a profit while trying to break a contract because they lose too much money.

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