1) They are from the city of Portland
B) Basketball is the most entertaining sport on the planet
III) Sabonis

And we have the greatest future of any team in the NBA. But how do I know the future? I just do.

And in this 4 months of my Blazermania nobody did something to change it and everybody to reinforce it.

We both came into existence the same year.

That, and they are not the L*#$^s (thanks silkybrown).

How could I forget

1) busta-bucket-see em dunk blazer duty super soak it slam it geez it go on queez it go get it got it goood. I don’t really remmember what they said but Nothing tops a full team of Blazers rappin.

2) Rip City Rap City we’re the rappers of the NBA!

3) We hate LA… we hate em! We Hate LA

D.Q. Blazers

If one grasps the concept of an ever expanding universe, the possibility of endless numbers of alternate universes then one must at least entertain the obscure idea that The Blazers might NOT be hands down, universally accepted, as the best team in the history of the universe. Don’t Panic.
It’s all within the individual. The Blazers are MY best team in the universe, in my universe. Oh, I could make a list. It would be similar to many, different than some but why bother? I grew up watching The Blazers that’s probably really the main reason. However, if I could reach for a semi-intangible, I’ve always liked The Blazers because of our success and our failure. We earned our success, through great trades, great scouting, and great talent obtainment. With the exception of recently “Oden” The Blazers have been a team that has built it’s success, not been handed a “Gasol” on a silver platter. We’ve also bravely and stoicly endured our down cycles. Pulling ourselves up and out of the mire, one Brandon and Lamarcus at a time.
We’re not The L*kers, we’re not The Celtics, or NY. We’re that pesky team out in the NW, that everyone else tends to forget about, or laugh about when we are down, but somehow, sooner or later we are playing in the finals and nobody is laughing. I have to admit, I’ve enjoyed in a way even the down times. What team has had more drama surrounding it? The past few years it got pretty dark but that in of itself is a reason I love this team. In my universe The Blazers are the perfect franchise balance of Success and Struggle. I’ve enjoyed watching the cycle.

Because in the summer of 1977, the best “TEAM” ever to band together and win a chamionship was created right here.

The proof was in the parade the next day.

Oh yes, and here we are 31 years later its embers still warmly glowing in us all.

The rest of the universe may not get it, but we know better!

The fans. No other team in the NBA has as passionate of a fan base as portland. I suppose that could be contributed to the fact that we only have one professional sports team, but i think if we had multiple teams the passion would be just as strong. You could say portland has a full passion bucket. I love passion.

I really don’t want to go there.

Maybe 15 years from now they’ll be the best team in the universe.

Let’s just say they’re the best team for me.

He is almost 4. Im pretty young myself, and I was lik 6-10 in the Drexler era. Yeah my dad took me to the games and i enjoyed the loud noise and bright lights, and i would clap when my dad would clap. But i wasnt old enough to develope a real passion. That happened when I first saw Sabonis play…HE IS SUCH A G! lol So anyway, we are going 2 TONS of games in 2008-2009 and hopefully I can instill some passion in him so by the time he is 6 he can fully appreciate the championship!!!!!! The blazers are the best b/c we have the best fans.

I could probably stop there and you all would get it (that is what is cool about Blazer fans) but I will continue. I was 14 and growing up in Grants Pass. My dad had discovered the Blazers and the Big Red-Head. I started watching with him and was amazed by that great run they went on (my most vivid memory is Luke’s big ol fist coming from off screen and clobbering Dawkins). I was hooked. However I never think of 77 team as my team. It was my Dad’s team and I was happy to root for them. However ….then 78 happened and the rest was history. I was hooked though and continued to watch. They made the playoffs every year (mostly) but got bumped in the 1st round. Then they grabbed this kid in the draft named Drexler with this awesome nickname (don’t tell me nicknames are lame) and mad leaping ability. Then started filling spots around him (I was in favor of Bowie…why not…I though he was next coming of Walton). The Bowie goes down (and down and down) but the Blazers kept on building that team …Kersey, Porter, and even Duck. Finally in what I figured was a throwaway move…they trade Bowie for Buck Williams. The 89/90 season took me by suprise and those 3 years cemented my love of the team. The Drexler/Porter team was my Blazer team. Mostly because of the dissapointments and then the success and ieven though they ultimately didn’t win the big one….I loved that team and always will.

I have been taking my kids to the games the past few years and I believe that when the Blazers finally get another ring ….the Roy/LMA/Oden team will be my kid’s Blazers (just ask my 8 year old daughter who favorite player is and she will say Roy and Joel “The Thrilla” Przybilla and she says it just that way). I envy them.

The Blazers may not be the best team in the Universe but they so intertwined into my family’s life and heritage that I wouldn’t trade them for anything

If someone has to ask WHY the Blazers are the best anything ever in the history of the universe, then they’ll NEVER get it.

The truth is as blindingly obvious as staring at the sun.

Mortimer

I went to my first Blazer game back when LaRue Martin was a Blazer. I was 16 almost 17 and a student at Beaverton High School when the Blazers won the the Championship. I have followed this team through all of its ups and downs. I have loved this team even when the “JailBlazer” era tested my fanship right to its core. And now as the Blazers enter a new era of Supreme Optimism and I have found new ways to express what it means to me to be a Blazer fan here at BlazersEdge, I must say with all of the heartfelt enthusiasm that I can muster – “IT’S A GREAT DAY TO BE A BLAZER FAN!!!”

What is that thing anyway?? Also, the team owner is just as big of a fan as any of us.

It’s like asking why I love my dog or my cat. I just do, because they make me feel good, I care about them, and I want them to be happy and succeed. I don’t know what they can succeed at, since I don’t have kids, you’ll have to work with me on that one. I could have said my wife, except I married her for citizenship.

I can’t think of any other way to put it. They’re family and you love your family no matter what. Even when we had a roster full of knuckleheads, I still loved them. I tried to approach this in a way, where I could convince a fan of another team, to like the Blazers. and I can’t come up with anything. No one is going to convince me to start liking their team.

Because farts are never plaid.

P.S. Too many geckos from Bolivia exploit the caravans of truth, only to find quiet assaults of table legs.

1. From Portland, a one pro-sport town in a one pro-sport state. Undivided devotion from the local fanbase.

2. The colors: red, black, silver, white. No embarrassing teals or yellows or purples. Team always looks badass at home or on the road.

3. Kevin Pritchard. Danny Ainge? Puh-leeze.

4. Underrated greats: Bill Walton, Clyde Drexler, Arvydas Sabonis, Rasheed Wallace, Brandon Roy. Guys who come in at 6 or 7 on the ten best lists.

5.< http://youtube.com/watch?v=CE5cLNbt7TI”>Bulls Vs. Blazers, now for the Sega Genesis.

Seriously, is there any design out there as authentic than the pinwheel? It’s awesome.

You know whear they show some trees, and then a wolf, yah thats good. get it? trees=timber and the wolf stand for wolves couse there is more then one tree, right.

We should use the same template and have a ford blaser, no.. even better 5 ford blazers, representing our 5 starters, driving down a long windy trail, with a trophy at the end. We could be the oficial NBA team of the Ford Motor Company...