The Rose Garden

[Wheels]

Nice 23 in March, for some reason i thought you were older

lol I get that a lot... probably cause I was posting over on O-live since I was a sophomore in High School so I would have been like 16.. so I have been around a while. Also cause I'm so bad-ass and mature! lol jk. I thought you were older too lol.

Maybe we have the John Strong syndrome where people think we are older just from what they know of us in our sports talking lives. hehe

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

lol I get that a lot... probably cause I was posting over on O-live since I was a sophomore in High School so I would have been like 16.. so I have been around a while. Also cause I'm so bad-ass and mature! lol jk. I thought you were older too lol.

Maybe we have the John Strong syndrome where people think we are older just from what they know of us in our sports talking lives. hehe

Haha yup,

 

[MARIS61]

lol I get that a lot... probably cause I was posting over on O-live since I was a sophomore in High School so I would have been like 16.. so I have been around a while. Also cause I'm so bad-ass and mature! lol jk. I thought you were older too lol.

Maybe we have the John Strong syndrome where people think we are older just from what they know of us in our sports talking lives. hehe

You look like you're at least 65 on TV.

 

[mgb]

I like the RG a lot. It's home to the Blazers so it feels like home to me.

It gets crazy in there which I love. I'll never forget the game 6th blowout of Dallas after we were down 0-3 in the series, but came back for 3 straight wins! The RG will always be special to me after that.

I went to a few games at the MC. The last game I attended was the final game we ever played at MC. We loss to the Suns and Barkley had 50 points.

 

[oldmangrouch]

The Glass Palace was loud and raucous, with working class fans who expressed their Blazermania.

The RG is a yuppie club for rude transplanted Californicators who have little genuine interest in the Blazers unless they're winning.

It's not the wrapper, it's what's inside.

Much truth in this.

The MC will always mean more to me than the RG. The early years of the Blazers, the state high-school play-offs, the Far West Classic, the NCAA regionals, the NBA draft....too many good memories there to ever forget.

 

[Eastoff]

will be 24 in April good sir.

WOW WTF! I thought you were in your 40s.

 

[Wheels]

WOW WTF! I thought you were in your 40s.

lol ouch

 

[Blazer_Hippie]

The Glass Palace was loud and raucous, with working class fans who expressed their Blazermania.

The RG is a yuppie club for rude transplanted Californicators who have little genuine interest in the Blazers unless they're winning.

It's not the wrapper, it's what's inside.

I think the demographics and behavior of sports fans everywhere probably follows a similar trend over this time period...

I'd love to see a demographics survey of the fans in the upper vs lower level...

 

[jlprk]

It seems like baseball (and football) do a much better job than basketball of creating unique, stadium specific feels, that are different from city to city. I'm not sure if it's the nature of closed stadiums or if I just haven't visited the best basketball venues. It takes something really out of the ordinary, like MC, to even make me notice a basketball arena. I would have loved to visit the old Boston Garden as another example...the Rose Garden does not have that unique feel to me at all.

Thank Stern for the bland sameness. As soon as a city has a stadium that nonconforms, it's--Bring in an Oklahoman to save the league from anything different, and badmouth the perfectly good arena!!