Before the OKC Thunder won the NBA Finals in June, the first professional sports title in Oklahoma belonged to the soccer team that played its home games at University of Tulsa's Skelly Field.

WATCH: Tulsa's first pro soccer player reflects on city's original championship franchise:

The Tulsa Roughnecks became the smallest market to win the North American Soccer League's Soccer Bowl '83 with a 2-0 triumph over the Toronto Blizzard before a crowd of 53,000 in Vancouver.

But before that championship, Charlie Mitchell became Tulsa's first professional soccer player in 1978 when his employer, Team Hawaii, relocated to Tulsa.

"The fans, if you made a mistake, they didnt know any difference," Mitchell told 2 News via Zoom on Nov. 22 before FC Tulsa's USL Championship final match. "If you did

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