Thinking back on it, without Fleury there's a really good chance that I wouldn't have been cheering for the Flames as a kid during the dark years of the mid to late nineties and that, surprisingly, is the time when my being a fan of the Flames really solidified. Without Fleury, there's a decent chance I just wouldn't have developed as the type of fan of the team to still be cheering for them more than 15 years after leaving the city.
I can't imagine I'm the only one who became a fan of the Flames as a kid in large part because of the excitement of Theo Fleury.
Certainly, there aren't many kids who become fans by cheering for the guys upstairs and the guys who don't even show up at the rink.
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