The Dome seats 19289, correct? After you factor in all the people working inside the building during the game, I'd imagine the number would be somewhere around 21000
Some dickhead ripped my flag off my car yesterday during the day at a pub I was at. Didn't see till I was going to go to my car to go home. Must've been some loser Oiler/Canuck/Toronto fan. Pissed.
Honestly it was probably just some kids. I have actually witnessed kids walking through a parking lot doing this. I took a photo of one and waited for the owner to come out. Well the kids saw me and my friend take the photo and wait and they came and gave the flag and apologized saying "it was just for fun".
Before the C of Red built momentum. The first home game vs VAN the crowd at the Dome was chanting GO FLAMES GO! over and over non stop 20 min before the game began it was packed. People were shouting the chant outside the Dome.
I'm sure it was the same feeling in that strip of bars that there was something special about to occur.
I can't say because we were at all the games and ventured down to the Red mile afterwards.
The Red Mile wasn't just isolated to the Melrose portion of 17th it was from the Dome to 14th Street SE.
Completely spontaneous merging of the Dome crowd and the 17th bar crowd.
Each game it just grew bigger and bigger and started to be in a matter of only a couple days a draw for fans from all over the city to see.
I remember meeting numerous people in the Semi Finals that came up from the States, Van-T.O.
England, Germany it was amazing how many people outside Calgary just wanted to see this massive mob of people party phenomenon.
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I watched game 7 of that Flames/Canucks series at my sisters place in Kensington with some family and a buddy. Most of us weren't old enough to remember 1989 when we had last won a series. When Gelinas scored in overtime me and my friend decided we needed to celebrate so we ran out to 14th street and Kensington road and there was maybe another 10 or 15 people on the corner all waving flags as people in passing cars honked.
We thought that was kind of cool that a few people would head out onto a random street corner to celebrate so we thought we should drive around and see how many other people were doing the same thing around town. This was obviously before the days of twitter and facebook so we didn't really know where people would be gathering or have smartphones on us to check the news. We drove through downtown and I still remember Rob Kerr on the radio stating a line along the lines of the Flames took that monkey and they beat it, smashed it, pummeled it off their back (referring to the long playoff series win drought). Just then we were on the corner of 5th street and 17th Ave SW by the Ship. There were probably 100 people standing around on that curb celebrating, and 100's more up and down 17th standing on the corners of the intersections. So we drove up and down the road in bumper to bumper traffic, random people were walking down the centre line of the road high 5ing anyone who offered their hand.
Those crowds were tiny compared to what would come in the following weeks, but it was awesome to get to experience something so truly organic. No one was there because they had seen it on tv and it looked like fun or just showing up to see the infamous Flames Girls. It was just a bunch of fans who felt the need to seek out other fans to celebrate with. Doubt it could ever be replicated in the same manner...but man those were some great weeks!
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Let's Photoshop this to show what happened to those not wearing Red.
Ex.
“lost mind”
“not allowed to see family”
“thrown off boat”
“in a hole”
“covered in fruit flies”
“sued to death”
Publicly mocked and shamed.
It's very important for people to remember that only red is red.
A shirt that is not red with red on it (ie, a Flames away jersey), while supporting the correct team, is not red and should not be worn at the Saddledome during the playoffs.
^ Pretty amazing - I can only count about 5 people that aren't wearing white flames jerseys, or what looks like a white hoodie over a red shirt (she's a woman...she was probably cold...)
I was living away in 04 (watched or listened to every minute though) but I was a rowdy 20 year old lad on a little street known as Electric Avenue when they won it all (some of you kids may be to young to remember).
I remember driving down 14th Street NW through Hillhurst that evening and every tree was covered in toilet paper from people celebrating, crazy times.
^ Pretty amazing - I can only count about 5 people that aren't wearing white flames jerseys, or what looks like a white hoodie over a red shirt (she's a woman...she was probably cold...)
White Flames jerseys are not Red. They are in fact white and therefore are not appropriate attire for a Flames playoff game at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
I know it's tricky and it can seem overwhelming at times, but there is a simple method to all of this madness.
Red = Good
Not Red = Not Good
Now lets not get ahead of ourselves. We need to clinch. Then we can worry about Red/Not Red education.
I really hope we get a chance to ridicule the clueless people who still wear something that is not red to the Flames games.
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White Flames jerseys are not Red. They are in fact white and therefore are not appropriate attire for a Flames playoff game at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
I know it's tricky and it can seem overwhelming at times, but there is a simple method to all of this madness.
Red = Good
Not Red = Not Good
Now lets not get ahead of ourselves. We need to clinch. Then we can worry about Red/Not Red education.
Some of us are old enough to remember wearing white to the home games....you young punks have no clue.
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