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Originally Posted by Matty81
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.
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Yeah. I graduated in the early 00s (pre 04), years later I ran into an old classmate from the K-9 days at an Edmonton bar who said he remembered me as being "the biggest Flames fan". That's pretty sad when you're living IN Calgary, and the unique things that stands out about you to someone is you're a big fan of the local team.
I recall as recently as 2003 walking into pubs here during the Flames game and there'd be no sound on, maybe even only on 1 or 2 of the TVs in there, and barely anybody in there was even paying attention. Dark days, man..
Can't say enough what Daryl Sutter & that 04 team did for turning it around here. Sutter made it cool to be a Flames fan again, I'll always love him for that.