A pre-emptive eulogy for my fandom of the Calgary flames (2007-2024)

[butterfly]

Waiting until this thread fades off the first page…

[Jetfire]

Originally Posted by butterfly

Waiting until this thread fades off the first page…

By bumping it back to the top of the order.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by RogerWilco

I'm having a hard time understanding how an Oilers Stanley Cup win can affect someone's ability to cheer for the Flames. Its like some of you never lived through the 80's.

I would guess three quarters of this board didn't live through the 80's. Too bad, best decade ever!

[stamps]

I desperately don't want them to win but so what if they do you can't control that .. I'm not dying a 1000 deaths over this.. didn't stop cheering for the Flames in the 80's when Edmonton won and sure as ####e will not stop cheering for the Flames now, if anything it just threw more fuel on the fire ... maybe Conroy will be extra driven like Cliff Fletcher was to build a powerhouse house team like we had in the eighties to compete with that team .. I like what we have done so far and am excited to see things unfold with the Conroy led Flames and the new arena on the horizon ... Edmonton can KISS MY A$$ !!!
GO FLAMES GO !!!!

[Barnet Flame]

We’ll miss all your contributions to the richness of this forum.

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

I would guess three quarters of this board didn't live through the 80's. Too bad, best decade ever!

I lived so fast and hard in the 80s those four years flew by. Barely remember them.


More to the point, OP, if you need help finding a therapist let me know. Life's too short to get this hung up on something that is supposed to be entertainment. Something else must be going on and if you need someone to even listen in the interim, let me know.

Your post reads like a proxy war in your depressive struggle against Climate Despair or something.

[Geeoff]

If the Oilers win the cup, they will be the first No Good team to win the cup since the last time they won it

[Yeah_Baby]

Wait, wait, wait, how can you be mad about what happened in 04 if you only became a fan 3 years later? haha

That's like me being mad at the Habs for 86. 3 months before I was born. Lmao.

[Hot_Flatus]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Constantly amazed by how much people struggle to have fun with a thing that exists solely for and has no other significance beyond “fun.”

Absolutely agree with the 'fun' aspect, but I completely get the state many fans are in when it comes to results and entertainment value the Flames have offered the last 20+ years.

In the NHL the reality is, that unless you rip it down and suck hard, you have next to no chance to win a cup, and even at that rate, you need to be lucky enough to be drafting one of those #1 picks that are able to completely elevate a franchise into another echelon.....there's one of those players maybe once every 7-8 drafts at best.

There are very few outliers - Vegas would be one - but it is a very hard league to be a fan, and the Flames are a very hard franchise within this league to cheer for given how obtuse they have been to changing gears until now. I'm not signing in my Flames fandome anytime soon, but I certainly realized a long time ago that the prospects of them winning a title again is extremely minute so any level of prolonged success they can have at this point is a win.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus

Absolutely agree with the 'fun' aspect, but I completely get the state many fans are in when it comes to results and entertainment value the Flames have offered the last 20+ years.

In the NHL the reality is, that unless you rip it down and suck hard, you have next to no chance to win a cup, and even at that rate, you need to be lucky enough to be drafting one of those #1 picks that are able to completely elevate a franchise into another echelon.....there's one of those players maybe once every 7-8 drafts at best.

There are very few outliers - Vegas would be one - but it is a very hard league to be a fan, and the Flames are a very hard franchise within this league to cheer for given how obtuse they have been to changing gears until now. I'm not signing in my Flames fandome anytime soon, but I certainly realized a long time ago that the prospects of them winning a title again is extremely minute so any level of prolonged success they can have at this point is a win.

I get that. I just posted something longer along the same lines in the series thread, so won’t repeat all that, but I don’t think it should ever be hard.

I grew up a fan of the A’s. If you think being a Flames fan is hard, try that. But even still, I don’t know, being a fan is just fun even if the likelihood of success is low. It will literally require them physically moving the team out of Oakland before I stop having fun being an A’s fan (even if I hate the people responsible for it). I don’t think being a fan should have anything to do with the stuff you can’t control. You either are or you aren’t, and there’s no real reason to be a fan unless you actually have fun with it and enjoy it.

So, yeah, I guess I get the state many fans are in as well, it’s not like being a Flames fan is without a lot of compartmentalization and purposely ignoring reality a bit. But if it’s not fun, and it feels too hard just… stop? There’s no card to turn in, no announcement that needs to be made. It’s just a sport. None of this means anything anyway.

When the A’s move I’ll pick a new team, and it’ll probably be a team I actively cheered against, and some people will say “how can you just cheer for ____ team” and the answer will be that it’s just fun picking a team and being a “fan.”

[theslymonkey]

Originally Posted by V1nnyTh3Flam35Fan

I now pronounce my fandom of this team dead. And I would go as far as to not cheer for another team. The most invested I would be are for international tournaments, Canada. It’s time to think for/choose myself and find my own happiness…

PS I don’t care if this post gets ratioed to smithereens. I just needed to vent my feelings with this post, that’s all.

Join date Feb 2024.
What a big loss...

[Lanny'sDaMan]

A couple things.. So not so much "For3veR" there eh "V1nny"?

Also nice join date, troll. I am so sick of these Grease fans coming on here and pretending to be Flames fans trying their best to make us all look unhinged.