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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Some of us were young kids in school here in Calgary in the 80’s, and had to tolerate all the bandwagon jock kids year after year who would show up in Oilers jerseys and ridicule everyone who dared to wear a Flames jersey.
We lived through an entire decade of a garbage franchise run by a literal criminal as they Gretzky/Messier’d their way to cup after cup after cup. The Flames were actually a pretty good team during those years too, but no one gave a  because they didn’t have 99 and 11 winning them cups every year.
And now you’re wondering why we’re not happy about having to watch this still-garbage franchise being run by yet another criminal as they McDavid/Draisaitl their way to possibly more cups?
Nobody here just woke up one day and said “hey let’s all hate the Oiler.” This hatred has been earned and cultivated for over forty years of some of the most egregious amounts of obnoxiousness you could ever imagine. |
Bang on brother! For those of us that are old enough to remember those days, it's the main reason our hatred of that team runs so deep. The younger generation hasn't seen nor lived through those years and it shows in their posts.