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How Long Have You Been On The Bandwagon?

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Kelly Hrudey was actually my favorite player from that era. Still love hearing him talk. He was on PMS last week and I absolutely loved it; I had the biggest grin on my face listening to him on the way home from work.
 
I joined when Kopi joined Kings but I don't know what that makes me a fan or a bandwagoner? Anyway I watch every game.

BTW serious question when are you considered to be a fan?
 
alpa said:
I joined when Kopi joined Kings but I don't know what that makes me a fan or a bandwagoner? Anyway I watch every game.

BTW serious question when are you considered to be a fan?
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I guess once you start watching more that 20 games a year and know the entire roster/coaching staff by heart; have opinions on all of them. Also if you start freaking out the people around you when they see you celebrate a goal or win like a crazy person...in November.
 
alpa said:
I joined when Kopi joined Kings but I don't know what that makes me a fan or a bandwagoner? Anyway I watch every game.

BTW serious question when are you considered to be a fan?
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Trust me, you're definitely a fan.

I was called a bandwagoner on this site. Bandwagoners don't join hockey forums.
 
Since 86-87. Grew up in Glendora and remember watching purple and gold before the trade...after that...I was playing roller hockey as a goalie on my neighborhood with catcher's padding on my shins til I could afford regular pads.
 
2006 aka The Year of Kopitar

Hard to follow NHL in Slovenia, not many matches on telly and even when they are they are in middle of the night. Kopitar made a change on that too (not on time when games are played, but on frequency of games on telly :P).
Never thought i would see them lift the Cup tbh, much less two times. Still remember how excited i was when they made to playoffs in 2010 :P.

Watched game 5 with my 6 year old (he joined me when OT started at around half past 5) and had trouble explaining him which team is Team Slovenia :).
 
I started following the Kings on June 13th, 2014. I'm like a super fan now. I have a shirt and I know all the important players like the American captain and that guy who's good at defense who also won Gold at the Olympics.
 
DocWest said:
I started following the Kings on June 13th, 2014. I'm like a super fan now. I have a shirt and I know all the important players like the American captain and that guy who's good at defense who also won Gold at the Olympics.
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What about that Swift dude, Kopidor, and the dude who won the Connie Smith trophy?
 
ElKingsFan92 said:
What about that Swift dude, Kopidor, and the dude who won the Connie Smith trophy?
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Connie Smith? You can win a girl? Is she hot? I like ice hockey!


I don't know who the other people you listed are. I only know the good players. NBC says that the Ranger goalie guy, King something I think, is the best in the world. We should trade for him or ask him if he wants to play for the winning side. !Kings Go Kings!
 
My dad became a fan when he went to his first game in 1975, and I've been a Kings fan since I was born as a result (20+ years). Though, I have to admit that for my first 7 years I was a Kings fan and a Selanne fan, but I eventually left the dark side for good. Still have a massive amount of respect for Teemu though.
 
since the beginning 1967, early childhood (8 years old at the time) and all that because of ... Sandy Koufax ... who in 1965 won the Worl Deries and I stopped having headaches and pledged to be a Dodger fan, so when the Kings came into the NHL I continued my pledge. You cannot believe how much I got teased in school...
 
since about 1970. i remember being 7 or 8 years old, and switching channels (the old fashioned way), and turning to an ice hockey game between the Kings and i'm guessing the Maple Leafs or Canadians, and seeing two guys after the whistle, drop their gloves and duke it out, like rock um sock um robots, been a fan since,
 
Scrivezina said:
Since 86-87. Grew up in Glendora and remember watching purple and gold before the trade...after that...I was playing roller hockey as a goalie on my neighborhood with catcher's padding on my shins til I could afford regular pads.
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No way! I'm from Glendora and I've been watching since those years also!
 
I think a lot of folks throwing around the bandwagon term seem to forget that prior to the 90s there wasn't much of a choice of your 'local' team to tout. I was a Kings fan prior to the Ducks being a twinkle in Disney's eye, and for most of us, the Sharks/Seals were a little too far to be 'local.' Most of us became fans of the game itself via the Kings.

For me, it started when I started swatting my soccer ball with a baseball bat on skates in 1990. My dad came outside and said, 'you know, they actually have a sport for that,' and the rest is history. I used to record every single game on the same VHS tape until it died, and I'd re-watch every game and try to learn from what I saw. Been hooked ever since, and was 'lucky' enough to get beat up on every weekend by the local kids that eventually went pro (Clarke, Gauthier, etc.), and now that I'm 33 and in semi-retirement from playing, it's nice to still be able to love the game through watching and coaching. I will say the weirdest thing is getting old enough to watch your idols retire and a new batch come through, mature, and get ready to retire again, haha. Such a strange feeling when the prospects are young enough to almost be my own kids.

Regardless, I've had the bandwagon term thrown at me repeatedly in the last few months, and I don't even care to respond anymore. I have a few decades of memories good and bad to share with those that know better, and I always find a good way to shut someone like that up is to ask them about their 3rd/4th liners and prospects :P
 
84-85
Didn't get a whole lot of hockey in south orange county, but we went to a game at the GW Forum pre- #99 and was hooked from that point on. I'm always asked why I'm not a ducks fan and I tell them simply, "Because I'm a Kings Fan".
 
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