I remember back in those days it was kind of embarrassing to tell kids in school that you were a Flames fan. You definitely had to downplay it a bit.
Probably just mostly nostalgia at play, but I have some fond memories of that era though. Tickets were dirt cheap, nobody went to the games to be seen (unlike post 2004), and there was a lovable loser quality to that team and some if its characters...Tabaracci, Freddie Brathwaite, Joel Bouchard, Brian Sutter etc. Those teams sucked hard, but you could never call them lazy. I enjoyed those years much more than the few years prior to the rebuild, where they were just a lazy team hopelessly lost in the weeds.
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