Sounds a lot like a bandwagon fan to me. I am positive not all on Blazer’s Edge will share my sentiment, but I would just as rather you go back on cheering for the Lakers than latching onto the Blazer’s fanbase. I can’t stand bandwagon fans, and Lkers fans in particular drive me crazy. However, I can’t stop you from being a Blazer’s fan, so all I can ask of you is that you make this your new permanent address. No more switching to another up-and-coming team, you must stay a Blazer’s fan for the rest of your life.

Bandwagon fans are a sensitive subject for me. After years of getting taunted at High School for supporting the Blazers, they finally started to look like they could win at all. And, poof, sudden;y there were Blazers fan all over the school. I can’t help the way I feel. But I guess I could extend an apology to The pack is back, one less Laker fan and one more Blazers fan can’t be that much of a bad thing in the long run.

Never been a bandwagon guy, never will be. However… maybe we ought to be accepting new Blazer fans with open arms. Whether they are former Laker fans or not, WE are still the Blazer Believer’s.

Welcome Pack Is Back.

Ps.- Current BEdger’s: Let’s not be so stingy about who likes our team huh? We have a great team. We all know it, and talk about them every day. Who really cares who likes us or even hates us for that matter. Life goes on, and we will still be here supporting our team.

... ‘pack is back’ has already shown some self-depricating humor (ex-lakes). Perhaps the purging has begun?

Blazer Missionary post. He has willingly turned over his Kobe jersey to me.

He is certainly the type of fan you want rooting for our team. He was inconsolable after Brett Favre announced his retirement. If he ends up loving Brandon Roy as much as he does Favre I’d be concerned that he would try to interrupt the game to give Roy a hug.

The pack is a good guy…. give him a chance. He did buy some 100 level tickets for us to go the last home game of the year so he can’t be all bad.

In the dark times, the Blazers were hurting for fans, and those who remained held that fact as a badge of honor. Now that the Blazers are showing promise, and people are starting to pull for them, I think those guys do get a little jealous. I can understand, because they held with the team through some very thin years.

However, when the dark era arrived, I myself cashed in my Blazer fandom for a half-eaten bologna sandwich. I pretty much missed the 2000 run because of it. But around 2006, the team really started to turn their image around, starting with one Brandon Roy. This kid alone made me remember all the Blazer games long past that I had spent with my grandfather, listening to the Schonz on the radio. He was the guy who was going to change everything, and so far, he has exceeded my expectations.

So, welcome aboard. If some don’t like you because of where you came from, that is their loss. Every Blazer fan is a welcome Blazer fan, no matter how new you are.

http://www.blazersedge.com/2008/6/30/562194/blazer-missionary-i-need-y

Although I have a question:
Tell me honestly, did you ever feel at one point that you were a laker fan “for life?”
According to the rules of fandom, because you were born/live in Portland, you should have been rooting for the Blazers all along. HOWEVER, because your parents raised you as a Laker fan, you hold allegience to both your team and your parents (it’s in the Bible!)
But my point is, if you ever felt that you would be a “laker fan for life” then we can’t really trust that you will be a Blazer fan for life, as you say.
I’m not judging or shunning you, because I always love another convert to the Blazers side. I just want the facts to be clear about your rooting interests.

A friend of tweener is a great guy and a great fan for sure.

Oh, and the Vikes will OWN the Pack this season. Go Vikes!

but I believe he should have to face some sort of initiation. A picture of him burning a Kbe jersey, a picture of him burning a Kbe poster, or ever a picture of him burning K*be himself would be sufficient.

Welcome to being a fan of a team that doesn’t make me hate you.

l*kers. it less offends the eye

Kobe will never be a Blazer Ripcity, don’t make me throw up.

Just to add a little fuel to the fire, I never really thought of Pippen as a true Blazer. We were just a stop-gap to retirement for him. From everything I’ve heard about Pippen he is someone who wouldn’t “fit our culture” these days.

Pack is Back, I feel that in order for everyone to understand where you’re coming from, you need to fully explain how devoted you were to the Lakers, why you’re suddenly leaving them, why you didn’t like the Blazers before, and why you like them now.
A lot of questions, I know, but you failed to answer those in your original post.

I hope you don’t mind me calling you that. What’s your favorite memory as a Laker fan?

What would fatty do?