lol @ tigers ahead of wings

I don't consider someone to be a Red Wings fan unless they helped build Detroit when it was first settled in 1705

What does it prove? It doesn't say anything about the level of fans we are. It just says that we live in a place where we actually have more options. You live in a city where you have 1 team to root for lol. Come on now use ur head.

Sharks fans are on a negative emotional freeroll for this series

Greear, San Jose is part of the San Fran/Oakland market

have you been to san jose? No other options? You realize that oakland and san francisco are all within an hours drive and san jose isnt in the middle of no where right? The bay area is a market brah; two baseball teams, two football teams, a basketball team and a hockey team.

Yeah it was the Bay Area Giants that shipped that World Series. San Francisco is awesome. Oakland and San Jose decidedly less so.

I just hope if a certain team is up 2-0 or 3-1. that the losing teams fans dont stop posting.

doubt any team will have more than a 1 game lead though

I'm gonna be pretty disappointed if this series doesn't go 7 games

according to you and noze the redwings only played 12 regular season games last year.

ya thats true but my point is that its part of the same market, so its lol to say that there are no other options other than the sharks. Somehow its the regular season for the World Series champs and yet w/r/t to fan bases there is a better and more substantial support for sharks relative to the redwings.

Droppin' Knowledge

fake earrings and bleached hair but qft

I have a Wingzzzz jersey you can borrow - go with the winners, I say.

I'm 44, and qualify.

But I was open-minded about it. The Wings started looking dangerous in '86, so we can consider that the cutoff for fair-weather fandom. Waiting until the first modern-era Cup is unreasonable because they were an obvious powerhouse several years before that.

And fine, for you kids we'll make an exception: if you've always had Detroit as your top hockey team, and you tend to watch at least a few regular season games every year or attend one in person, you can be in the club.

The rest of y'all just don't count, sorry.

+1

Some (one?) of us were Wings fans a decade before then.

lol, like two people in this forum do that

That's not a counterargument.

Actually, I should have thrown in listening on the radio, which is often all out-of-towners have available.

atakdog we have handicap access on the wagon to get your old ass up in here, no worries

Bold statement there. Vancouver plays much better defense and has better goaltending; offensive power is pretty close- I'd give a slight edge to the Sharks. Still we're probably only around 40/60 dogs (I think you'd have similar chances). If we're 50/50 with you it's still only a 20% chance to make the finals. Hockey has a good bit of variance.

Do you think people from SJ just ignore every other sport than hockey? What football/baseball teams do you think we'd root for?

This. Someone wanna tell me how far it is from Joe Louis to The Palace? or to Pontiac when the lions played there? Is it somehow unacceptable to drive an hour or so to watch your team?

To be fair this forum skews pretty young. They drafted Yzerman before a lot of us were born. I'd bet their parents didn't support the team until the 90s though.

I don't picture people from San Jose at all actually, let alone what they may or may not do

Going to throw it out there... I know I watched the most Red Wings games of anyone during the regular season who posts in this thread a lot...

so f*** all the SJ fans who call me a bandwagoner or "fair weather" fan...

you cant choose when your born... been a Wings fan for 15 years... feel like that means enough...

Ok, do you think it's unreasonable to be a fan of any team if you live more than an hour or two away?

I wasn't trying to make one, I totally agree with what you're saying.



Nobody that's been paying attention in the regular season thread is calling you a bandwagoner