Usually, we let the Irritated Tulsan stick with covering the happenings from the city just up the Turner Turnpike, but this is just too good to pass up. From the Tulsa World:

The Tulsa 2020 Committee on Tuesday presented the City Council with the idea of the city making a bid to host the 2020 summer Olympic games.

Seriously.

“A lot of you are probably thinking what I thought the first time I heard this, ‘Tulsa? Olympics? Are you out of your mind?’?” said committee member Michael Jones, an attorney.

“That’s exactly what everyone said about Atlanta when they started proposing the same thing,” he said.

Atlanta was awarded the 1996 summer games.

Much of the committee’s presentation centered on the similarities between Tulsa now and Atlanta in 1989 and 1990, when it was making its bid.

Committee member Neil Mavis, an expense reduction analyst, lived in Atlanta at the time it made its bid and began talking to people he knows about Tulsa’s possible shot.