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How Long Have You Been On The Bandwagon?

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Beginning of the 09-10 season. I needed a team and they had a good preseason. Guess I would have been 12. Been a great decision. Not a big poster here, more on the draft boards, but its always interesting to see everyones views.
 
Well my Dad hung out in LA in 65, 66 and moved back to BC and i was born in 67. He used to listen to all of the kings games on our big old stand up radio when i was little. We use to go watch em every year in Vancouver and i was hooked early (70's). Really loved triple crown line, went to Victoria for kings camps (yes the first year Gretz was there so was i), we had a sat dish so caught almost every game ever. In college i would come home late but always check scores. I now have the sat tv and he comes over to watch every game with me and my kids...pretty special seeing us win the first cup but man this run was awesome. So proud of the team DL has built. Great time to be a fan!!
 
Replica said:
I jumped on the bandwagon in 2001 after beating Detroit in the first round.
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Same. Although I had become a fan of the sport when I was 5 due the Mighty Ducks movies. Also, if anybody remembers, KCAL showed Mighty Ducks games back in the mid-90s-early 00s; I would watch those games all the time. In other words, Kariya and Selanne almost made me a Ducks fan. However, when the Kings made the playoffs that year, I hoped on the bandwagon and haven't left since. It also helped that the Kings had two players I instantly became a fan of in Adam Deadmarsh and Ziggy Palffy.
 
1994, had to wait 4 years to see my first playoff game, only to watch them get swept out by St. Louis. Then another two years to watch them get swept by Detroit.....I had a great start!
 
93 playoffs against the leafs. I was a junior in HS, and has a math class where a few guys would talk hockey. Started watching around game 5 of the Conference final that year and have been on the bandwagon since.
 
starting getting into the kings the last several games of 87-88 as a little boy. No cable tv. Only simulcasts with Nick nickson and bob miller on my transistor radio :) Then wayne gretzky came into town and my obsession blossomed.

There were some rough, rough years but Im so glad i stuck with this team... and ill do so til the day I die.
 
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Been on board since 1972/73 first game was Wings vs. Kings. Then Blues Vs. Kings. I was 7-0 that year at Kings games and was sure it was me. EVen saw the Kings beat the California Seals. In fact I didn't suffer my first Kings loss till the 1975/76 season. Of course back then there was no Bandwagon. it was a beat up Milk wagon pulled by a dying mule.

Phil
 
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First time posting, but long time lurker. Been a fan since '87. Nicholls was my favorite and was so bummed to see him go, but I guess Granato turned out alright...
 
1988...my first game I went to was Gretzky's first game as a king. Although I was only 10 months old (yes my dad was one of those bring the baby to the game guys). And I have been a hardcore fan ever since haha
 
Since 1992.
I was just a kid with my first pair of roller blades who started playing street hockey because, well... what else do you do with roller blades? I loved it so much I adopted the sport and the Kings since I'm from L.A. and my family are all Dodgers/Lakers fans. Got my whole sports-loving family into hockey and the team. We all went to the 1st parade together :)
 
74-75 season I originally went to games to root against the other teams and found myself following the kings more and more, it was easy because they made alot of trades with the team I grew up with,the rangers , they had the off broadway line os murphy-carr- and tommy williams, they had bob nevine, pete stemkowski,teddy irvine, so they were like rangers west to me. Then the rangers treated eddie giacomin badly and made the trade for the evil esposito from boston and I was a kings fan for ever. I have been to many many great games from the playoffs in 74 to games each round this year and many memorable ones, I was at the game where hutch and tiger had their stick fight, butch scored in OT to send it to game seven,espo choked out dionne, to the the classic Miracle game. Didn't go to many games when grez was here a few but changed careers in the middle of those years and with three kids well you guys get it, some times having to watch games on cable with the sqiggly line down the middle just to see them but never stopped loving this team life just got it the way lol. As things got better finacially was able to get to playoffs against St. Louis where storr got run and that fat ***** koharski made the bad call to give the major because courtnall was a bigger ***** and also made the last game at the forum where modry robbed I think young of 250,000 bonus when he blocked a shot with seconds left and the goalie pulled, lol loved modry. Became a STH with my younger son after the lockout because I could and can not ****ing believe how good we are now, 40 years and we finally crosed the T'S and dotted the I's , we have had good teams sometimes bordering on great but this mgt. team is so so good and the team they have put together is one for the ages and I think those bandwaggoners with me know what I mean, GO KINGS GO see you all at the parade
 
2-4 Slashin said:
Been on board since 1972/73 first game was Wings vs. Kings. Then Blues Vs. Kings. I was 7-0 that year at Kings games and was sure it was me. EVen saw the Kings beat the California Seals. In fact I didn't suffer my first Kings loss till the 1975/76 season. Of course back then there was no Bandwagon. it was a beat up Milk wagon pulled by a dying mule.

Phil
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Saw several Kings-Seals games in Oakland. Was going to Fresno St. at the time and it was a lot closer.

Not only that but you could get center ice lower level seats for about $7 back then. Seals' home attendance was pitiful.

Another side benefit were buckets of beer. Yes......buckets. Each bucket held the equivalent of about four beers. Just right for a bunch of college students. Never seen anything like it sold at a sporting event.
 
Also a first time poster after following the boards since the first lockout ended. It was a few things occuring at the right time that got me interested in the Kings (and hockey in general) back in 1989-90. I had a 6th grade teacher that year that taught geography using cities of NHL teams and was a fan of the Kings. I recall hearing my dad watch games on TV occasionally before then, but he was just a pretty casual fan at the time. Then April 14, 1990 I walk into my dads room as he is watching the Kings in overtime against the Flamesin round 1 of the playoffs. Based on my recently acquired knowledge about the sport and the team I decided to stick around, especially after my dad explained to me what sudden death meant. It looked like the Flames had scored to win the game, but not so. Then, in second overtime I will never forget the sight of Vernon waiving his glove at the puck as it floats over his head and into the net off a shot from Mike Krushelnyski as he is lying on the ice. I was hooked (and I mean hooked) from that point on. That was the first game I ever saw. I picked a good one. Also had a good friend who became interested in hockey at the same time and the two of us were just obsessed.
 
1994. My first game was Kings vs ducks with Kelly Hrudey vs Guy Herbert. Never thought I would have lived to see the Kings win the cup.....let alone 2 cups in 3 years
 
21Dog said:
Saw several Kings-Seals games in Oakland. Was going to Fresno St. at the time and it was a lot closer.

Not only that but you could get center ice lower level seats for about $7 back then. Seals' home attendance was pitiful.

Another side benefit were buckets of beer. Yes......buckets. Each bucket held the equivalent of about four beers. Just right for a bunch of college students. Never seen anything like it sold at a sporting event.
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All of that sounds amazing.
 
21Dog said:
Saw several Kings-Seals games in Oakland. Was going to Fresno St. at the time and it was a lot closer.

Not only that but you could get center ice lower level seats for about $7 back then. Seals' home attendance was pitiful.

Another side benefit were buckets of beer. Yes......buckets. Each bucket held the equivalent of about four beers. Just right for a bunch of college students. Never seen anything like it sold at a sporting event.
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That's awesome. Buckets of beer, :laugh:
 
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