Old timers thread

[Irish Trader]

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.

 

[KingSpeed]

50 years old. Been watching since 1989. Early on, I listened more than I watched. Schonley.

 

[Hoopguru]

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.

74

 

[Wizard Mentor]

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.

 

[Irish Trader]

60, just retired.

Nice plenty of time to do what you want!

 

[42N8Bounce]

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.

 

[kjironman1]

59. Been following the Blazers since 75. A 10 year old that just liked the game.

Kjironman is a fan!!!

 

[Natebishop3]

This is why I keep coming back here. I get to feel young compared to you fogies!

 

[MickZagger]

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

 

[Phatguysrule]

44. Been watching/listening since 1986.

When Blazermania is going there is no place better.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I'm 8 in reverse dog years.

 

[wizenheimer]

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

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

64. Went to a couple of games their inaugural season. Been a fan since day one.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I was a kid when the Blazers won the championship, I honestly thought We Are The Champions by Queen was written for the Blazers.

 

[Phatguysrule]

reverse dog

Did you learn that style from the OnlyFams?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Did you learn that style from the OnlyFams?

HA!

 

[e_blazer]

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.

 

[riverman]

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

 

[THE HCP]

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!

 

[KingSpeed]

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.

Math says 51st

 

[lawai'a]

65, fan since the season petrie shared rookie of the year award with cowens. grew up listening to their games on the radio. still my most enjoyable way of taking in a game. wish they still had nba league pass audio.

 

[tlongII]

66. Been waiting a long time to feel like it felt in ‘77 again.

 

[Boise Blazer]

48. Been a fan since '83. Being in high school when they went to finals in 90s was amazing. The fact that they haven't been back since has always rubbed me the the wrong way. I feel if you haven't made it to the finals even once in 30 years then it feels like upper management /ownership aren't really trying or taking any risks. But the Blazers are my first love and I will always watch no matter what.

 

[THE HCP]

65, fan since the season petrie shared rookie of the year award with cowens. grew up listening to their games on the radio. still my most enjoyable way of taking in a game. wish they still had nba league pass audio.

I remember if there was ever part of a game I was going to miss when I was real young…..I would record the Schonz onto a cassette and listen to it later. Did the same for COURTSIDE even in the late 90s.

 

[ant]

48. First game I saw the Blazers on TV was during the 1990 finals vs Pistons in a classroom while we filed out for 8th grade graduation. Immediately hooked, but mostly listened to games on my clock radio because I was the only bball fan in my house. Interviewed Terry Porter during a sports writing camp later in high school, and dreamed of being Jerome Kersey on the court.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Just turned 70 and have been all in since Harry forgot his raincoat. So....since 1970. Attended at least 5 games the initial season (tickets were reasonable, easy to get and you could usually find a parking place right in front of the MC). It was a fun date night. For a high school kid in a town with only minor league baseball and hockey, the arrival of the Blazers was indescribably "big time". Rolland Todd coached some fun basketball despite the limited talent available and Stu Inman found the perfect first ever draft pick in Petrie to get things "red hot and rolling". Great memories.

 

[BlazerWookee]

58 today. Oldest Blazer memories are trying to have my hand on the right spot on the radio antenna in my bedroom window to be able to actually make out more of what Schonely was saying.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

58 today. Oldest Blazer memories are trying to have my hand on the right spot on the radio antenna in my bedroom window to be able to actually make out more of what Schonely was saying.

Ah........the joys of AM (and transistor) radio. Especially outside the populated areas........the Middle Ages of audio media......

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Ah........the joys of AM (and transistor) radio. Especially outside the populated areas........the Middle Ages of audio media......

I used to love turning on the radio at night when camping and seeing which stations you could get.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

I used to love turning on the radio at night when camping and seeing which stations you could get.

Catch a good "cloud skip" and you never knew where you might get a signal from. God, we were such Rubes back then.....and gratefully so.........