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Originally Posted by Tabaracci_31
That’s the team I grew up with. I remember being legitimately shocked when a lot of my classmates who never seemed to care about the Flames suddenly got jerseys and shirts in 2004. At the time, I was pissed about it in a weird, hipster way. “I went to their “”shows”” before they were big!” In hindsight, I don’t blame everyone. Funny how things change through the years. It was almost inconceivable to cheer for a team that made the playoffs consistently, who had a lot of fans and made hockey seem cool.
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Yeah.
As a kid growing up at that time it was tough to be a Flames fan for sure - just nothing to get really excited about.
I was actually a Ducks fan when I was younger, Kariya and Selanne were my favourite players and had an attachment to the team due to the Disney movies.
But I feel like most kids at my school at that time were Red Wings or Avalanche fans.
For me it actually changed for me prior to the 2004 season though, for me it changed in the 2001-2002 season.
The strong start to the season, Iggy being a big part of the Olympic team, and Iggy scoring 50 and being the best player in the league are what got me to change my affiliation from the Ducks to the Flames (helps that Selanne was traded by the Ducks at the end of the 01 season too and that pissed me off).
When Iggy was on the cover of NHL 2003 that felt like the first time the Flames were my primary team in a video game (Actually that's a lie, I'd use the Flames in NHL 94 too, but the team was still good then and Ducks were horrible). Guess I would have been 14 at the time (Fall of 2002).