Toggle sidebar

How Long Have You Been On The Bandwagon?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ron*
  • Start date Start date
  • Xenforo Cloud will be upgrading us to version 2.3.5 on March 3rd at 12 AM GMT. This version has increased stability and fixes several bugs. We expect downtime for the duration of the update. The admin team will continue to work on existing issues, templates and upgrade all necessary available addons to minimize impact of this new version. Click Here for Updates
1989...I'm a bigtime sportscards collector and that was the beginning of four-sport collecting...baseball card collectors branching out into other sports. David Robinson Hoops RC, 1989 Pro Set Football, Gretzky in Los Angeles. 25 year long bandwagoner.

I also remember the splitting off of Minnesota in to the Sharks, the movement of Winnepeg to Phoenix, the movement of Quebec to Denver, and the Mighty Ducks all coming in to existence to be local opponents for Los Angeles. They exist because LA brought Gretzky to Hollywood. This is a fact and can not be denied.
 
From Season 1.
Attended a few Blades games at the Sports Arena before the Kings arrived.
Remember the $1.50 Student Standby seats. Then moving down into the good seats that were empty. The girls dressed in Togas were unbelievable.
Remember the nicknames JKC required the players to have. Eddie "the Jet" Joyal, Juha "Whitey" Widing, Bill "Cowboy" Flett.
Loved Eddie the Entertainer Shack. When things were going bad he would just start skating around and around the ice and fans would get excited.
Favorite player of all time was Butch Goring, but love the current players who are such winners.
Remember Bobby Orr going the length of the ice untouched to score. No one could even get close to him. The forum filled with Bruin fans that sold it out.
Remember Gretzky playing his first year for the Oilers and Sather coaching.
Remember Gordy Howe and Ross Lonsberry tangling.
 
Since Oct 22nd 1969. First game vs. Pittsburgh which was a 2-0 win and a crowd that seemed outnumbered by the concessionaires and ushers. One of 14 wins they had that year. That squad was awful.
 
Kings Rule said:
From Season 1.
Attended a few Blades games at the Sports Arena before the Kings arrived.
Remember the $1.50 Student Standby seats. Then moving down into the good seats that were empty. The girls dressed in Togas were unbelievable.
Remember the nicknames JKC required the players to have. Eddie "the Jet" Joyal, Juha "Whitey" Widing, Bill "Cowboy" Flett.
Loved Eddie the Entertainer Shack. When things were going bad he would just start skating around and around the ice and fans would get excited.
Favorite player of all time was Butch Goring, but love the current players who are such winners.
Remember Bobby Orr going the length of the ice untouched to score. No one could even get close to him. The forum filled with Bruin fans that sold it out.
Remember Gretzky playing his first year for the Oilers and Sather coaching.
Remember Gordy Howe and Ross Lonsberry tangling.
Click to expand...

Nice first post!
 
I started following NHL with Kopitar playing his first game for Kings.

I have nothing to hide, first two or three years I didn't care much for the Kings, I was just following Kopitar personal statistic. But with following Kopitar I started to read different Kings boards, started to know Kings as a club better and slowly adopted them as my second sport team (first is my local football team, that is actually also Kopitars team that he is cheering for in Slovenia). Five years ago I started to wake up in the middle of the night and looked for illegal streams of Kings games.

I knew that I totally fell into Kings was four seasons ago, when Kopi broke his leg, but I still wake up in PO for every game against Sharks.

Last three seasons I have Gamecenter and I hardly miss any home game, because they usually start 4:30am my time and finish around 7:00am and then after the game I just go to work. And of course I more than happy to see this Kings to mature and to rise from second to last in NHL to two times SC champions.
 
I started going to games in 1973, so "only" 41 years.

I'm starting to think this is personal. I have been doing contract work on the East Coast starting in December 2011, so I have missed most of the glory.

After all these years, I am thrilled that it has happened, but pissed that I am so far away......
 
Kings Rule said:
From Season 1.
Attended a few Blades games at the Sports Arena before the Kings arrived.
Remember the $1.50 Student Standby seats. Then moving down into the good seats that were empty. The girls dressed in Togas were unbelievable.
Remember the nicknames JKC required the players to have. Eddie "the Jet" Joyal, Juha "Whitey" Widing, Bill "Cowboy" Flett.
Loved Eddie the Entertainer Shack. When things were going bad he would just start skating around and around the ice and fans would get excited.
Favorite player of all time was Butch Goring, but love the current players who are such winners.
Remember Bobby Orr going the length of the ice untouched to score. No one could even get close to him. The forum filled with Bruin fans that sold it out.
Remember Gretzky playing his first year for the Oilers and Sather coaching.
Remember Gordy Howe and Ross Lonsberry tangling.
Click to expand...

great first post and welcome aboard :)
 
Yeah, like a few others, I got on the bandwagon in 1992 and haven't felt the need to hop off.
 
Started liking hockey in '96 ... picked the Kings ... never left.

As humiliating as that series against St. Louis in 98 was ... that was when I was addicted.

Side note: I hate Geoff Courtnall to this day.
 
WCF against the Leafs. Then NHL 94 came out and I think I knew every teams top line by the next season.
 
Since the "Dawn of Time"!!!!

1986 - God came to L.A. Didn't speak any English but skated just like me, but much slower!

Been a faithful follower of the Kingdom he belonged to even when he had been banished twice over! But, now he's back! The Kingdom is now more glorious than ever before!

I worked hard to skate by his side. Tried my darndest to join his Kingdom, but to no avail. I had to settle with emulating his excellence on a interactive visual box. First was Superstar Ice Hockey for Commodore 64. Then came Face-off 64. Wayne Gretzky Hockey I,II,III, & 3D. Then Blades of Steel, Every EA NHL from 90 to 09. My first iteration here was under the likeness of his name. I will forever be faithful to his Kingdom. Even when he is no longer.
 
JBernierFan said:
I've been a die hard Kings fan since I was 11...the 1990-91 season. In the 24 years, I've probably only missed watching in person or on tv, 30 games. We've all sat through some terrible hockey, which makes right now amazing.:handclap:
Click to expand...

ditto. I was 10 then too and that's when we got cable. I was flipping through the channels and stopped on game 1 vs the oilers and was hooked. I asked my dad what it was and he was like 'oh that's hockey. ive watched it since I was a kid in chicago'. needless to say I yelled at him for trying to get me to play soccer as a kid and never telling me about hockey :D
 
Last edited:
Ronk said:
WCF against the Leafs. Then NHL 94 came out and I think I knew every teams top line by the next season.
Click to expand...

NHL 94 was the best game. I remember it was hard to beat the Hawks in Chicago.

Broken glass and players bleeding, at that time were awesome features in the game.
 
kovacro said:
NHL 94 was the best game. I remember it was hard to beat the Hawks in Chicago.

Broken glass and players bleeding, at that time were awesome features in the game.
Click to expand...

As well as the new hit animations along the glass or player benches. Oh, and the one-timers. Can't forget about those either.
 
About 1990 or 1991. Woke up many a nights around that time to my big brother watching the games as we shared a bedroom.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Ad

Upcoming events

Ad

Top Bottom