[GDT] Flames vs. Bruins, 7 pm, SNW

[krynski]

Originally Posted by Howie_16

I was a hardcore Bruins fan for 2 weeks in June 2011, and I enjoy watching the B's slap the Habs around, but how can you hope they beat your hometown team?!

Live in Calgary, cheer for the Flames!

I hate this rationale. I've lived in Edmonton for 7.5 years, and the last thing i'm ever going to be is be an Oiler fan.

[wired]

Originally Posted by AcGold

Chara's strength in the behind the B episodes was ridiculous. One of the best athletes in history. Should be interesting watching Johnny try to go around him, Zdeno is nearly two Johnny's.

Chara is a pylon.....if Johnny can get by him, should be good.

[FBI]

Originally Posted by krynski

I hate this rationale. I've lived in Edmonton for 7.5 years, and the last thing i'm ever going to be is be an Oiler fan.

Agreed I haven't lived in Calgary since 1999 and for some reason I am even more of a hardcore Flames fan then I was back then. I think the Flames just grow on you over time or something.

[Obsidian]

I don't understand how people can become emotionally tied to a team that isn't their hometown or the place they reside in... unless there is no team representing their locale. Otherwise they're just complete bandwagoners, which I don't have much respect for. Especially stupid when there's hardcore hawks, rangers or detroit fans north of the border that have no actual ties to the city. Just makes me shake my head.

I cheered for Boston because of the Iginla ties and when they were facing the Canucks. But not anymore.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Obsidian

I don't understand how people can become emotionally tied to a team that isn't their hometown or the place they reside in... unless there is no team representing their locale, or they're just complete bandwagoners, which I don't have much respect for. Especially stupid when there's hardcore hawks or rangers fans north of the border that have no actual ties to the city. Just makes me shake my head.

I cheered for Boston because of the Iginla ties and when they were facing the Canucks. But not anymore.

I'm a Flames Fan and the nearest I've lived is Edson. You don't need to understand. It just happens

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

I'm a Flames Fan and the nearest I've lived is Edson. You don't need to understand. It just happens

I was a Flames fan long before I moved to Calgary. Growing up with Oilers fans. These things indeed just happen. I don't even know what it was that drew me to the Flaming C

[dutch14]

Originally Posted by krynski

I hate this rationale. I've lived in Edmonton for 7.5 years, and the last thing i'm ever going to be is be an Oiler fan.

Could not agree with this more. I have lived in Vancouver for close to 25 yrs and I continue to hate them. You will never see me cheer for them, the same can be said for the Seahawks and basically every professional Vancouver team.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by Obsidian

I don't understand how people can become emotionally tied to a team that isn't their hometown or the place they reside in... unless there is no team representing their locale. Otherwise they're just complete bandwagoners, which I don't have much respect for. Especially stupid when there's hardcore hawks, rangers or detroit fans north of the border that have no actual ties to the city. Just makes me shake my head.

I cheered for Boston because of the Iginla ties and when they were facing the Canucks. But not anymore.

Isn't cheering for a team because you happen to reside in the same city as them just as arbitrary as any reason?
When I was a kid I decided I was a Rockets fan because I liked the nickname "The Dream".
Whatever works.

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by Obsidian

I don't understand how people can become emotionally tied to a team that isn't their hometown or the place they reside in... unless there is no team representing their locale. Otherwise they're just complete bandwagoners, which I don't have much respect for. Especially stupid when there's hardcore hawks, rangers or detroit fans north of the border that have no actual ties to the city. Just makes me shake my head.

I cheered for Boston because of the Iginla ties and when they were facing the Canucks. But not anymore.

So free will is now tied exclusively to the region they live in?

I've lived all over the Country, I'm an Expos fan, a Riders fan and a Flames fan. Also an old School Cleveland Cavaliers fan (Mark Price what what!). As a kid I cheered exclusively for the team that Ed Belfour was on, he was my hockey hero. Well, to be honest, I cheered for Belfour right up until he retired. But the Flames were a big part of my upbringing, as was the Oilers, but I hated the Dynasty, and everything about them past that.
I remember my mom buying me some #99 Oilers colored chuck Taylors and never wore them once (was probably 5 or 6 years old). I knew the Flames were going to be the team I hung my hat on from my disdain for the Oilers.

Who cares what part of the World a fan is from or how they came to cheer for a team. Do you scratch your head when some of the Flames fans from Finland, Sweden, the Czech republic choose to cheer for the Flames?

[BsFaninCGY]

Originally Posted by Obsidian

I don't understand how people can become emotionally tied to a team that isn't their hometown or the place they reside in... unless there is no team representing their locale. Otherwise they're just complete bandwagoners, which I don't have much respect for. Especially stupid when there's hardcore hawks, rangers or detroit fans north of the border that have no actual ties to the city. Just makes me shake my head.

I cheered for Boston because of the Iginla ties and when they were facing the Canucks. But not anymore.

So a team can employ players from outside the city, but not fans? Gotcha.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Obsidian

I don't understand how people can become emotionally tied to a team that isn't their hometown or the place they reside in... unless there is no team representing their locale. Otherwise they're just complete bandwagoners, which I don't have much respect for. Especially stupid when there's hardcore hawks, rangers or detroit fans north of the border that have no actual ties to the city. Just makes me shake my head.

I cheered for Boston because of the Iginla ties and when they were facing the Canucks. But not anymore.

I was a Bruins fan before the Flames came to Calgary. That doesn't mean I won't be cheering for the Flames tonight. They are my other team that I cheer for in the playoffs. I still have a Bobby Orr jersey I bought in the late 70's

[N26]

I'm joining this pile on.

I lived in Calgary for a few years in the 80's but I have also lived in Chicago, Montreal and the Boston area. But the Flames are my team. Even when they sucked. I even cheered for the Young Guns.

If we had to be regional I would have to be a Panthers fan now. Could you, in good conscience, really do that to me? To anyone?

[smoothessence]

The Bruins can go to hell tonight.

Go Flames go.

[AcGold]

Originally Posted by wired

Chara is a pylon.....if Johnny can get by him, should be good.

Depends if we get referees that call holding.

[dash_pinched]

The Bruins were my team before the Flames moved from Atlanta to Calgary and when Lanny McDonald was traded from Colorado to Calgary, I guess you could say I jumped on the Flames bandwagon and have been there ever since. I still like the Bruins, but tonight it's Flames all the way.

[Burner]

Live in Winnipeg

Cheer for the Flames

and tonight get to see the Jets wreck the Oilers

[jd456]

Originally Posted by Obsidian

I don't understand how people can become emotionally tied to a team that isn't their hometown or the place they reside in... unless there is no team representing their locale. Otherwise they're just complete bandwagoners, which I don't have much respect for. Especially stupid when there's hardcore hawks, rangers or detroit fans north of the border that have no actual ties to the city. Just makes me shake my head.

I cheered for Boston because of the Iginla ties and when they were facing the Canucks. But not anymore.

Haven't posted in a while, but this is something I get asked all the time. I've lived near Chicago my whole life. My first NHL game was a Flames/Blackhawks game. My uncle was a huge Hawks fan and I liked cheering against them as a joke. Well Theo Fleury caught my eye because he was the smallest guy on the ice and quickly became my favorite player. We went to more Flames/Hawks games and I became an Iginla fan too as he was breaking into the league.

I liked both teams for the longest time and was heartbroken in 2004 because before then, being a Flames fan in Illinois meant I could see them when they played the Hawks and I got to be them in video games, but I couldn't follow them much, so it was amazing to watch them in the playoffs. I was happy for the Hawks when they got better, but the 2009 series and mainly the "fans" that popped out of nowhere really turned me off to them. I'm a die hard Flames fan and I haven't even been to Calgary. You don't have to live near a team to be a fan.

Also, random fun fact, I was born during the '89 run and I found out a few years ago that on the night I was born, the Flames beat the Hawks in Chicago. It was meant to be.

[Always Earned Never Given]

Originally Posted by Obsidian

I don't understand how people can become emotionally tied to a team that isn't their hometown or the place they reside in... unless there is no team representing their locale. Otherwise they're just complete bandwagoners, which I don't have much respect for. Especially stupid when there's hardcore hawks, rangers or detroit fans north of the border that have no actual ties to the city. Just makes me shake my head.

I cheered for Boston because of the Iginla ties and when they were facing the Canucks. But not anymore.

Sometimes things just happen....being from Mtl , when I was 9, my dad took me to a game at the old forum where the habs played the Atlanta Flames and as soon as i saw this Tom Lysiak guy, his style of play, he won me over and the rest is history as after that I always wore # 12 in hockey and followed the Flames and of course i was more than happy when they moved to CGY....The habs? Well I only get exited when they beat all the other western teams especially the one in B.C and that other team in Alberta...anyways, Flames with a 4-2 win with all their goals coming after the 10 minute mark of the third...

[MrMastodonFarm]

This whole who should cheer for which team where is weird. Two simple rules for this.

Live in Calgary = cheer for Flames
Live outside Calgary = cheer for Flames

[Calgary4LIfe]

I don't think there are any rules as to why you should or shouldn't cheer for a team. All you have to do is like a team, and that is enough. There is nobody on this earth that you have to justify it to, only yourself.

With that being said, as a kid I used to cheer for Edmonton to win the cup when the Flames were knocked out - even if it was by Edmonton. Why? Because I felt that only a Stanley Cup champion could have knocked Calgary out, and if it weren't for them, the Flames would have won. I cheered for Vancouver back in the late 80's/early 90's when I thought they were a likeable 'b' class talent team.

Luckily, I have grown out of that logic as I have matured (and I really don't know how people can cheer for Vancouver in light of all their antics in the past 10-12 years, and how they treated Bure - I honestly would feel embarrassed being a Canuck fan in today's day and age, and it has nothing to do with a rivalry). Both teams are so 'wrong' for very different reasons, and I am just glad that at no point did the Flames become a team I was 'embarrassed' being a fan of (though there were moments that came close through the years).

Penguins were my 2nd team when Badger Bob - and then Mullen - joined them, and have stayed my second team until the last 5 or so years. They were a heck of a lot of fun watching with Lemieux, Jagr, Francis, etc. Now I don't have a '2nd team' at the moment, but if I do, it will just be because I like them, for whatever reason it may be.

By the way, Flames win 8-1 tonight, and Lucic looks like the #$#$@! he is.