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
KingCanadain1976 said:
wow this thread has a lot of different posters in it Nice to see a lot of newer names for sure.
Click to expand...

Julius Caesar Milan said:
This is a great thread
Click to expand...

And older ones! It's fantastic.

And yeah Hans I feel ya--I think a lot of us spent more time following the Monarchs than the Kings for a few years there hoping for better times, so it's not too far off the mark :)
 
Wayne Gretzkys first year was my first year watching kings games. I watched the Oilers win the Stanley cup on espn back in the day. I didn't really know the rules, but I liked the fighting and the hitting. I liked Gretzky, but Mark Messier was my favorite player on those teams.
 
sinister6000 said:
Wayne Gretzkys first year was my first year watching kings games. I watched the Oilers win the Stanley cup on espn back in the day. I didn't really know the rules, but I liked the fighting and the hitting. I liked Gretzky, but Mark Messier was my favorite player on those teams.
Click to expand...

Same here, I was 12 back in 1988 and didn't have cable, but every time I would sleep over my cousin's house, I would watch the Kings on Prime Ticket on Saturday nights and got hooked, then when when the Kings moved to Staples Center and I was working out of College, my brother and I became Season Ticket holders, have been going to games since!!!!
 
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
Click to expand...

Haha, that's the whole point of this thread! Tell 'em to go **** themselves!
 
alpa said:
Alpa chino. :p:
Click to expand...

tumblr_n23gpij5z31rmu14oo1_500.gif
 
First Game: December 16, 1972 1–3 Loss vs Montreal Canadiens
Don 'Krazy' Kozak scored the lone King goal.

Before someone took me to this game, really introducing me to it. I had seen the
10 or so Kings games a year, broadcasted on Channel 9. I was always pissed
when they came on, as a show I was watching, was bumped off the schedule for
the game. Once I went to this game, I was hooked. Had to listen to all of them on
the radio. Remember crying once, listening to the last game of the season, as it
ended.

Within a year, I was playing on roller skates and then roller blades...had the first roller
blades - those Ralph Backstrom skates! Later played a few years on ice. Had season
seats before Gretzky arrival. Only kept 10 games and had seat partners.
Was fortunate to attend both Miracle on Manchester AND Frenzy on Figueroa, despite averaging only
about 10 games a year. I was working at a video post production facility and my shift was 11:30 PM to
8 AM. I got to work late after the Miracle on Manchester game...the person on the swing shift
that I replaced was pissed, when they found out I was at a sporting event and asked why
I didn't leave early!! I wanted to say "you wouldn;t understand!" One of the best games EVER.

I created a Kings logo artwork for "YEARS SUFFERED" with the year number of years of the futility
of being a King fan...and added a year as each year passed. ALways meant to have it printed as a shirt and wear. Glad I never did that! Took over 40 years and now happy to be spoiled! Was one of the pessimists, who wanted to start losing every game around February, in order
to get a higher draft pick, when the playoffs were out of reach. Seemed like the only hope for so many years...Moved to Denver on 2006 and attend the King games here.
 
Last edited:
I guess this is as good of a place as any for this




Can we say penis here?

Edit- I guess we can. Penis!
 
My first Kings game was at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. I was a Seals fan. It was 1973. The Seals left for Cleveland. I left Norcal for Hollywood after graduation from Napa College and got an NHL team as grad present. First game at the Forum Sept of 75. I have other teams, Niners and Giants which I was born to, but the number one team in my home, KINGS!
 
I can't remember when I became a Kings fan because I was so small. I just remember going to the Forum and crying every time they scored. The noise scared the poopy out of me. I guess I was 4 or 5. I am 44 now and grew up with the Kings as my team. They are definitely a piece of me.
 
guzmania said:
My first Kings game was at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. I was a Seals fan. It was 1973. The Seals left for Cleveland. I left Norcal for Hollywood after graduation from Napa College and got an NHL team as grad present. First game at the Forum Sept of 75. I have other teams, Niners and Giants which I was born to, but the number one team in my home, KINGS!
Click to expand...

Hell yeah, the guzmaniac makes an apperance!!
 
Julius Caesar Milan said:
I guess this is as good of a place as any for this




Can we say penis here?

Edit- I guess we can. Penis!
Click to expand...


Omg!! - Esa Pernis ..long pause..drove it in the deep and it is cleared. I think Fox being so quiet says it all. I can't stop laughing it is hilarious.

If he would have said in the sentence above I think they both would have been laying in the booth laughing their ***** off.
 
Last edited:
Like others I was also raised in a home without cable. We had channels 2,4,5,7,9,11,13 and UHF and you had to get up to change the channel. We also had to get up to answer the phone and rode in cars to Ram home games without seat belts on. I had read about Gretzky in Sports Illustrated and understood he was the best around but didn't watch or understand hockey. The Kings also changed their colors that year and they dug up the streets and installed cable that same summer so it was meant to be. I was hooked but it took me about a full season to understand what the hell icing was. I thought icing was called when the guy who touched the puck did a slide stop and sprayed ice so it was frustrating. I kept asking why he would do that and get called for icing. Oh yah, they also had an ice rink at the Brea Mall, the good old days.
 
1990 was pretty much when I dove in head first. My Mom came home with a set of inline skates from Kmart for my brother and I and I was hooked, I think they were the Wayne Gretzky ones but I would bet if he knew what turds those things were he would have never put his name on it. I started playing on ice a few months later and never looked back. Throw in the start of the NHL series for the Sega and I turned into a full blown fanatic. It also helped that my Dad was able to score free tickets all of the time from work, so we went to a lot of games.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Ad

Upcoming events

Ad

Top Bottom