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How Long Have You Been On The Bandwagon?

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1982. I was watching my first hockey game on TV and about halfway through I had to go to bed (6th grader). My parents went to bed as well, so I sneaked downstairs to finish watching it. The Kings were getting blown out, but I didn't care, I just wanted to see the end.

It was obvious how I got hooked, that game was the Miracle on Manchester. Who wouldn't become a fan after that?
 
1986-87 my teacher had Kings posters in the classroom and I thought it was cool so I started watching games off and on, 87-88 I was hooked and then we landed Gretzky. The 2012 run brought tears to my eyes because it ended years and years of suffering and this run brought tears to my eyes watching my 7 year old daughter screaming her head off and my two year old son yelling Go Kings Go.
 
2007 is when I started watching a few of their games. 08-09 is when I watched the draft where Drew Donuts was drafted. Also watched more games and I became a fan.
 
Since the 93-94 season. Can't believe its been 20 years.

It was a great first season to be a hockey fan, and terrible first season to be a Kings fan.
 
Almost 30 years and counting baby! I bleed kings hockey! Lived through some horrid times but man has it been sweet!
 
1986. There was a player on the Kings at the time named Phil Sykes who was from my hometown of Dawson Creek, British Columbia up here in Canada. My hockey team was playing in a tournament in Vancouver and the Kings were in town playing the Canucks that weekend. My coach was a friend of Sykes' so he arranged for us to go to their practice in the afternoon, and we got to go into the dressing room and meet them all after practice. I got a stick from Bernie Nicholls (which I still have) and I've been a die hard fan ever since.

It's been tough being a fan of such a crappy team for so long up here in Canada, but it's finally paying off! Except now everyone new that I meet assumes I've only been a fan since 2012 :shakehead
 
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I didn't really start getting into hockey until around late 2010/early 2011 and by default I went for the Kings because I'm a Lakers/Raiders fan so I like to keep that Los Angeles theme (or formerly in the case of the Raiders). I know I've been lucky to experience the overwhelming success of the team in this short period in comparison to what some of you have endured, but I'm certainly not taking it for granted.
 
Since about 2001. I jumped on during the series with the Red Wings.

Prior to that I was on the Hartford Whalers bandwagon. But, in 1997 it broke down. And I had to find a new ride. Eventually I wandered out to Los Angeles and found my new home. Now I follow the entire organization religiously! Both in LA and Manchester. I figured between the Kings games (all 108) and the Monarchs games (probably about 45) I've dedicated about 380 hours to watching Kings hockey this season.


And no... If the Whalers ever comes back to Hartford, I will never ever get off the LA bandwagon! A King till I die!
 
CTKingsFan said:
Since about 2001. I jumped on during the series with the Red Wings.

Prior to that I was on the Hartford Whalers bandwagon. But, in 1997 it broke down. And I had to find a new ride. Eventually I wandered out to Los Angeles and found my new home. Now I follow the entire organization religiously! Both in LA and Manchester. I figured between the Kings games (all 108) and the Monarchs games (probably about 45) I've dedicated about 380 hours to watching Kings hockey this season.


And no... If the Whalers ever comes back to Hartford, I will never ever get off the LA bandwagon! A King till I die!
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That's awesome!
 
Emigrated to the US in 1991 and didn't know hockey existed. I was only 11 so I don't remember exactly how or when it began but I guess I watched a few games on TV starting in 91~92 season.

Officially jumped on the wagon in 92. Luc became my favorite player, then this guy named Gretzky came back from injury. He had a mediocre regular season by his standards and thought "I guess he's pretty good". I found out eventually, he's pretty damn good.
 
KingsFirstCup said:
1986. There was a player on the Kings at the time named Phil Sykes who was from my hometown of Dawson Creek, British Columbia up here in Canada. My hockey team was playing in a tournament in Vancouver and the Kings were in town playing the Canucks that weekend. My coach was a friend of Sykes' so he arranged for us to go to their practice in the afternoon, and we got to go into the dressing room and meet them all after practice. I got a stick from Bernie Nicholls (which I still have) and I've been a die hard fan ever since.

It's been tough being a fan of such a crappy team for so long up here in Canada, but it's finally paying off! Except now everyone new that I meet assumes I've only been a fan since 2012 :shakehead
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Pscho!

He played after he left the Kings and worked in hockey for awhile.
 
Though he only spent one year as the Kings announcer, Roy Storey had a big influence in me becoming a Kings fan. "Shot on Goal! Save! Ro-ga-ti-en Vachon" - So my bandwagon is going on 42+ years.
 
Really started following them in 1988, after the Gretzky trade. I wasn't interested in hockey at the time, but my college roommate was, and it was his TV, so.... It didn't hurt that my then girlfriend (now wife) was a Kings fan as well.
 
Since 2000, that's when I moved to this country. The Kings and Clippers are the first sports teams I started following
 
The day 99 was traded to LA, I was 10 years old, and remember watching the krushelnsyki goal inside a old cardboard box that i used as a fort....all on good ol CBC....
 
To be honest, there IS a little bit of fairness of me personally being accused of being a "bandwagon fan"... not because I shift my allegiances, but because my amount of attention to the team has varied, including an outright personal boycott of the NHL from the time the Anaheim team lifted the Cup until the Kings finished higher than those guys in the playoffs (I just wasn't ready to forgive the NHL for allowing that to happen *laughs*).

I have my excuses -- I had season tickets for years to the San Diego Gulls, so minor pro hockey had a lot more of my focus and attention... though some of that was paying more attention to the successful team than to the perennially-struggling NHL team that was my intro to hockey fandom. Five titles in eight years is attractive stuff, even if it IS of a small low-minors league.

I started focusing back in again near the playoffs in 2011 after the 2007 personal ban was put into place, then REALLY returning to NHL and Kings focus in the pre-season of 2011-12... and we KNOW how that turned out eventually :)

That's the long answer -- the answer to "how long have I been SOME level of Kings fan" is:

Since May 27, 1993 -- the OT goal of Game Six of the Campbell Conference Finals against Toronto -- I saw it on TV and became entranced with the storylines and sport of hockey through the Kings' appearance in the Cup Finals... I was even AT the Kings' first home playoff game since that Cup run -- only for it to be the infamous Courtnall/Storr incident game.

I was at the last NHL game played at the Forum - the pre-season game against the Ducks that the Kings won 7-0.

So, yeah, I'm a semi-bandwagon, 21-year fan :)
 
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