Yeah. My father was in the Air Force. If I'd have been born a few years later, I could have tries out for the Men's National Team! JK
I wish I was born in Portland but subjected to a birthing in New "freakin" Jersey. I grew up in Trenton, which was actually a really cool place at one time . I became interested in the Blazers in 77 and became a nut over the way the team played and how cool their uniforms looked. (I did support the Sixers in 77. I always followed Dr. J.) But, at that time, I liked Portland when the playoffs started due to Maurice Lukas and Lionel Hollins. I became all involved with the 87 team and from there I was a permanent fan.
Born in rural western Iowa..moved to San Diego in 1971 in the Navy...spent a couple tours overseas and bought some land in Northern Cal in 74 and planted trees in Oregon every summer to make land payments...fell in love with the place..Blazers I followed Walton who I watched play pickup games in San Diego a few times. Was 23 when they won the championship. couple decades in asia and moved back to Portland..left there 15 years ago when I found my couple of acres in the foothills of the coastal range. Stayed a Blazer fan since I was probably 19 or so.
Klamabama and liked the team since the late 90s, but I didn't become a crazy fan that watched/listened to every game until 05, ironically the year they won 21 games.
Livingston, Scotland. Been a Blazers fan since nba2k14 popped up in a steam sale . I choose Portland as my team as they share most of the colours that my football team(Aberdeen F.C.) use: Red, White, Black and Gold(Few more Championships, and the Blazers can upgrade the silver to gold).
Raised in Idaho. Was a Knicks fan back in the Starks/Oakley days (not much a fan of Ewing). Moved to Vancouver around 2002 and caught the Blazer's bug.... even though we have since moved back to Idaho.
Born in Philadelphia, moved to Portland when I was 6mos old. Became a Blazer fan when they won the championship. I was a kid when Blazermania suddenly exploded. The summer the Blazers won the police started handing out Blazer cards, I remember chasing cop cars on my bike all over the neighborhood for those cards. Then one day a metermaid was driving in her 3 wheel motorcycle thing and we mugged her for Blazer cards. Metermaids may wear a uniform and have a badge, they ain't cops. For some reason this was upsetting to me. I wanted my damn Blazer cards! So I called the Portland Parking Division and told them metermaids should give away Blazer cards. A week later that same metermaid showed up at my parents house with a giant stack of Blazer cards. Victory was mine! I think I ended up with 16 full sets of cards. I actually gave Mags a full set when he came up to visit a few years ago.
So it wasn't indecent exposure that you got arrested for, it was being a hooligan! Your past is catching up to you, sir!
Born in portland, live in gresham. I'm 24. Started as a kid with the jail blazers. As I got older B Roy was the man and I remember trying to copy his game when I was like 15,16. He was a hero to me at the time, still is. Leah's grew up around blazer talk because I played a lot of ball through my life so as a kid I would always hear the other kids parents talk about Portland and have the calls on the radio in the car rides, going to games. the culture and the fans really are the best in the league. Nothing like it.
I remember Blazer cards! When my dad got out of the Air Force and moved us back to Portland, my mom got a job with Multnomah County Schools. My brother and I got a bunch from the various teachers and administrators. A cop gave me Sam Bowie rookie card if I remember correctly.
Born and raised in inner Southeast Portland (SEP. We ate NEP kids for lunch....). The Blazers came to town before the start of my junior year of high school. Petrie was "Gee-off Who?" and everyone was tickled to get semi star and former Oregon Duck, Jim Barnett in the expansion draft (All you hardcore basketball geeks would have been orgasmic in the weeks leading up to that. Very cool. But then no Google back then either.....you had to get Street and Smith magazine, Basketball Digest, the Sporting News, etc, etc in order to figure out who all the expendables might be and what their stats were). I went to five or six games that year (seemed like they were all against the Bulls). Tickets were always available and parking was cheap and easy in the lot at the Coliseum. We played a fast, running style of basketball and Rolland Todd dressed like a pimp. And we played fellow expansion teams, the Cleveland Cavaliers and Buffalo Braves (now LA Clippers) a ridiculous number of times....which helped pad our win total. Been a fan ever since.
I remember having a subscription to "Basketball Digest" for something like 15 years...even though I had only paid for 1 years worth of it. Somehow it just kept showing up, and the expiration date (on the address label) was always like 10 years later.
Seems like the same thing happened to me. What a bargain! I loved that little, almost pocket sized publication.
