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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.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
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.
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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. :tongue:
 
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.
 
julius said:
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.
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Seems like the same thing happened to me. What a bargain! I loved that little, almost pocket sized publication.
 
riverman said:
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.
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Where in Iowa? My family is now from Northwest/North Central Iowa.
 
Orion Bailey said:
Are you a Blazer fan?
Where are you from???
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Yes, I'm a Blazer fan. How did you know?

I'm from my mommy's tummy. Er, I mean I was born and raised in beautiful Portland, Oregon! Spent my whole life here. Been a fan since 1990, when we played the Pissed-Ons in the Finals (and lost :sad:).
 
julius said:
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.
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I bet there's a magazine fairy out there somewhere. I have a subscription to ESPN that I thought should've ended 2 years ago, but like a zombie, it keeps on kicking.
 
I was born and raised in Portland, mostly in inner SE.

EDIT: I lived in North Portland as a small child (3-7 years old) from about the time the blazers won their championship in '77, until sometime after Mt. St. Helens blew up in 1980. From 1st to third grade our family lived in inner NE near 29th and Glisan by Oregon Park. We then moved to the Hosford-Abernethy/Richmond neighborhood off of 29th and Powell near where my grandparents had a house built in the early 50's. I've lived in and around that neighborhood for most of my life. I live in Goose Hollow.
 
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Born in Boise but my dad was in the Air Force and we went to Germany, Maine and then moved to Portland for 3 years from kindergarten to 3rd from '82-85 and fell in the love with the Blazers even at that young age. And even though we got orders and transferred to California my love only grew as they went to the great Blazer teams of the early 90s. Suffered through the tough years which makes me absolutely love the team now and especially Lillard as the superstar we deserve.
 
trailblazer18 said:
Where in Iowa? My family is now from Northwest/North Central Iowa.
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I grew up outside a small town with 75 people in Monona County...on the Missouri between Sioux City and Council Bluffs ..hill country. Now all national park land. Not far from Lewis and Clark State Park. Also spent half my adult life in Asia...traveled mainland China twice when I was younger.
 
Technically I'm not 'native' Oregonian since I was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1968. Moved to Portland when I was less than 6 months old. Raised in Happy Valley, Oregon.

My dad thought good things would be happening soon after they drafted Bill Walton in 1974. So he bought season tickets. At the ripe old age of 6, I was going to Blazer games! I remember being pissed when my dad took one of his work buddies to the championship game instead of me. I stayed home and watched it on tv. Bill Walton, Maurice Lucas, Bobby Gross, Lionel Hollins, Dave Twardzik, Larry Steele, Johnny Davis, and Lloyd Neal were my first memories of Blazermania!

I took a brief break from going to Blazer games when I went to Oregon State from 1986-1992. Moved back to the Portland area - West Linn, Oregon and have been continuing the family passion of going to as many Blazer games as possible. I now share season tickets with my brother and brother in-law. I'm proud to say my 14 year old son has now caught the disease. He's constantly asking me when he gets to go to the next game. My life goal has been achieved. :)

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Born in Astoria Or. Went to the first preseason game in 1970, the Lakers. I think it was the first game ever for the Blazers. The Lakers were my team in that day, but that night, watching the Blazers play, I felt the Laker leave and the Blazer move in. But I think I was ready and willing for the change that night, I had been watching a few practices at the Lewis and Clark gym. Hell, I even had wrangled a contract to maintain the scoreboard at the gym so I could get in.

Moved to California, Europe and back, still the Blazers remain the team.
 
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SlyPokerDog said:
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.
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Fucking transplant.
 
Sly shall never be able to rock one of these bad boys

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riverman said:
My sister lives in Des Moines today...my mom passed away a few years back in John Wayne's hometown outside of Des Moines. Kruschev loved Iowa
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I've flown over Iowa.

Several times.

barfo
 
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