Everyone else does, and, being a bandwagon Colorado fan, I thought it would be a good idea.
They embarrassed Claude Lemieux and, like all Avs fans, I love players who take cheap shots and then cower when it’s payback time.
Joe Louis Arena is all cluttered with Stanley Cup banners, while ours is nice and clean with only two.
They’ve had and loved hockey since the turn of the century, and we discovered the sport about the same time Starbucks opened their first store in LoDo. How pedestrian of them
Their fans are lame. They can’t come up with witty, stinging cheers like we do.
We’re totally obsessed with them, and they just don’t seem to care as much about us. We even cheer against them when we’re not even playing them!
They went out and bought a contending team, not like us.
… Well, except for Bourque, and Blake, and Kasparaitis, and…
They think they’re hockey know-it-alls just because they know technical hockey terms such as “blue line” and “center ice.” Say, what does “the crease” mean?
They named their arena after a sports hero. How weak is that? We did it right.
… Go, Pepsi! Say, what does “sell out” mean?
I believe I have irrefutable proof that Steve Yzerman killed Kenny, the greatest icon to emerge from the state of Colorado.
While not pit-worthy yet, with the Detroit Colorado series starting tomorrow, it may turn into something nasty.
(I had to…really…it’s required by law here in Denver.)
Hee hee…great list! Cracked me up. In our defense, let me at least say we didn’t get to name the Pepsi Center–not the fans fault they got a corporate sponsor. Besides, do they build any new sports venues nowdays that aren’t named after a corporation?
Anyway, I’m looking forward to a good series–hope it goes to 7 but I don’t think it will. Hate to say it but the Av’s didn’t exactly look stellar against the Sharks. Keeping my pom poms fluffed and my fingers crossed, though!
Surely you can’t be talking about Chicago? If you are a leafs fan, then it can’t be Montreal. That’s laughable.
BTW, this list came from the Denver Post and was emailed to me. It was submitted by a fan in their little forum.
I will say this about our favorite ex-Av, Claude Lemieux. If he were a Wing, he’d be the most popular guy in town. We are after all the city that loves Bill Laimbeer.
I remember an incident in 1999 that made national news and don’t say it’s a low blow.
Don’t forget Patrick Roy, and that “throw-in” in the Blake deal, Steve Reinprecht. You’ll be hearing alot about him in the next week. Oh, and those guys weren’t “bought”, they were flat STOLEN. If you’re in a room with Pierre Lacroix, best keep one hand on your wallet. What was the gerbil doing while Lacroix was grabbing these guys for pocket change, anyway?
Hey, don’t worry about that rivalry thing, either. Spend all your energy worrying about the Blackhawks and the Bruins and the Canadiens during the regular season while the Avs punk your asses out of the playoffs, AGAIN.
Although I must admit that I don’t really care for the Wings/Avalanche rivalry. Gimme a Detroit/Chicago or Detroit/Toronto rivalry any day. I sometimes wish we* were in the Eastern Conference so we’d see Toronto more often. Now that rivalry has history to it!
note the use of “we” - even though I am not a Detroit Red Wings Player, like all sports fans I am OneOfTheTeam, even though I just sit on the couch and yell at the teevee.
I agree on the rivalry thing. Remember how loud Chicago Stadium would get and that asshole Chris Chelios (whatever happened to him?). I love when we play the leafs at home because there’s always a bunch of Leaf fans there.
but I think the Wings/Avs is the best rivalry going today in all of sports, considering the relatively brief history and the fact that the two teams have been among the top in the last 6 years.
At the very least you have to love the modesty of the Red Wings. Not many organizations would have the balls to refer to themselves as “Hockeytown”.
And, did you ever notice that 1980’s are never refered to in Detroit? That is because an arena with more empty seats than fans doesn’t quite jive with that whole “Hockeytown” image they are trying to maintain.
They don’t speak of the 1980’s because they were dominated by the parvenu Oilers and that punk Gretzky. They weren’t part of the ORIGINAL SIX, you know. Gimme a break.
Lamar Mundane are you special? Does the fact that the Oilers dominated the 1980’s (Which I know, I grew up in Calgary) give the self proclaimed “hockeytown” the right to play infront less than sell out crowds?
Toronto is the true “Hockeytown”, even over Montreal.
You redwings fans better laugh it up now because you’ll be crying you little eyes out once Roy shows you out of the playoffs.
For some reason I can’t remember who the blackhawks are playing right now. Oh, that’s right, I forgot - the blackhawks aren’t playing anyone right now because they suck ass, just like last year. And the year before that. And the year before that. And the…
I remember the 80s for Red Wing fans. I remember having a cable tv, but not getting Pass Sports (The Source… For Michigan Sports!) because it was a premium channel. So of course my dad got it illegally with a black box. :rolleyes: I tell you, it’s simple keeping track of the puck in play nowadays; I grew up with extremely staticky hockey games where I learned to watch the puck on a screen covered with moving black dots!
Yeah, those were the days. The days where a brand new car was given away at home games to try to get people to buy tickets. When you were made fun of for being a Wings fan. And heaven forbid you had a jersey of any sort! (I… “borrowed” my brother’s jersey many a time and got teased when I wore it at school).
And God, I can’t stand the damn Hockeytown shit. It grates on my nerves every game. Get rid of the goddamn Al the fucking purple octopus, get rid of the damn Hockeytown EVERYTHING, the stupid music CDs churned out each year, and especially the goddamned “Hey Hey, Hockeytown!” theme song that makes me want to go on a killing spree.
::: pant pant :::
And I still love the bumper sticker I’ve seen: “I was a wings fan before it was cool”. If I used bumper stickers, I’d get one.
zweisamkeit, I’m with you all the way. I hate the songs, slogans, hockeytown… just play hockey!
How far we’ve come. Everyonewanted PASS for the Tiger games.
Vic, I’m referring to an incident at a high school in the Denver area. If they are going to throw Detroit’s crime in our face, then I’ll have to do it back.
Oblong said:Vic, I’m referring to an incident at a high school in the Denver area. If they are going to throw Detroit’s crime in our face, then I’ll have to do it back.
Who from Colorado threw Detroit’s crime in your face, dickless?
The easiest way to know that Toronto is the True Hockeytown[sup]tm[/sup] is that the club had a ten year waiting list for season’s tickets even during the dreaded Ballard decades (the worst owner in hockey history, for those not in-the-know).
This is the home of the Hockey Hall of Fame, and the city that sold 8,000 tickets for an All Star game practice. Toronto contributes more NHL players than any other city in the world, and will go absolutely crazy if the Leafs make it to the Cup.
