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Matty81 · 02-08-2021, 11:10 PM

I feel like there was a big crop of fans in calgary during the late 90s who just cheered for the successful teams at the time. The liveliest games were when the trendy teams like the avs and wings came to town and there were loads of bandwagon fans for those games.

People who were 20 plus and had lived the better years were still flames dominant but were a little more low key because of how bad the team was. Not a lot to cheer for or bring them out. And after the finals run the younger groups coming up were again flames centric.

But always feel like there must be this big crop of guys like 30ish now in cgy who are ridiculous closet avs and wings fans because there were so many of them at the dome back then. I have this picture in my mind of hundreds of spoiled brats with like 6 kinds of treats from concession in Sakic and forsberg jerseys with embarrassed looking parents screaming after every goal while the flames got worked. Maybe the cup run won them over too.

02-08-2021, 11:10 PM	#20
Matty81 Franchise Player Join Date: Oct 2008 Exp:	I feel like there was a big crop of fans in calgary during the late 90s who just cheered for the successful teams at the time. The liveliest games were when the trendy teams like the avs and wings came to town and there were loads of bandwagon fans for those games. People who were 20 plus and had lived the better years were still flames dominant but were a little more low key because of how bad the team was. Not a lot to cheer for or bring them out. And after the finals run the younger groups coming up were again flames centric. But always feel like there must be this big crop of guys like 30ish now in cgy who are ridiculous closet avs and wings fans because there were so many of them at the dome back then. I have this picture in my mind of hundreds of spoiled brats with like 6 kinds of treats from concession in Sakic and forsberg jerseys with embarrassed looking parents screaming after every goal while the flames got worked. Maybe the cup run won them over too.