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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Last edited by Stay Golden; 03-19-2015 at 07:21 PM.
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