Been watching Blazer games since 1971. This is an old timers age roll call. I will start 75 going on 76. Older than dirt I am.
60, just retired. Really got into following the Blazers in '89 because I had moved to Texas for work, and needed a PNW lifeline. Was on the old listserv for years before coming to BBF. Several years later, I joined the wave of people coming here.
I’m 56. My dad bought season tickets in 1974. My brother and I would alternate going to game with him. He passed away in 2001. I inherited the tickets the same year my son was born. He’s at Oregon State now, but he still comes home to catch at least 15 games with me each season. This will be our 50th season as season ticket holders.
59. Been following the Blazers since 75. A 10 year old that just liked the game. Kjironman is a fan!!!
I’m 38. My grandma was a diehard and we bonded with the Blazers. She got me into it. Way more than my siblings who are casuals. My dad is football and baseball and doesn’t give a rip about the NBA. I was a literal watch every game fan at the age of 5
72 I was paying lots of attention in the first season when the Blazers had Geoff Petrie and Rick Adelman in the backcourt IIRC, the 10 games or so that were televised were on KPTV (maybe that was later) Sydney Wicks averaged 25 points and 12 rebounds as a rookie in Portland's 2nd season. Wicks was a 4-time all-star by the way, but his rookie season was probably his best. In Portland's 3rd season, Geoff Petrie averaged 25 points and Wicks averaged 24 points; but the rest of the team was so bad they only won 21 games in Portland's 5th season, thy still have Petrie and Wicks, but they added a rookie C named Bill Walton (typically, he only played 35 games that year; Blazers won 38 that season) we all know what happened in Portland's 7th season. Hard for me to believe that was 47 years ago.....geeeeezuzzz by the way, Geoff Petrie and Steve Hawes were traded by Portland to Atlanta for the 2nd pick in the ABA dispersal draft. Blazers selected Maurice Lucas. With their own 5th pick they selected Moses Malone, but traded him away in one of the dumbest moves by a team that made lots of dumb moves. Petrie never played a game for Atlanta because of a training camp knee injury that ended his career
I was a kid when the Blazers won the championship, I honestly thought We Are The Champions by Queen was written for the Blazers.
71; 72 in a couple of weeks. I only stick around here in order to keep the whippersnappers like @Natebishop3 in line. I’ve been a Blazers fan so long that I’ve forgotten how not to be one.
I'm 70 and was 23 when we won it all..been a fan since Walton showed up in Portland. Walton made me more of an NBA fan than a baseball fan and I grew up loving baseball above all sports
52….. Parents and neighbors used to take me to the MC and watch games late 70s my first memory. Standing room only FAMS! We were the family in the neighborhood with Blazer Cable PPV and the whole hood would come over to watch!
