Getting tight - Blazers fans around the world

12 hour time difference with portland. on blazer’s game days, the games are just starting around the time i wake up, so i get online (dial up) and follow the gamecast and blazers edge while i’m sippin on my coffee.

it’ll be weird to watch games at night next year.

we get very poor coverage of Blazer games on TV (we get one game of the double headers [Wednesday & Friday for you guys]on ESPN, and it’s usually a Cavs, Suns, Heat or L*kers game), so I signed up for a DVD subscription from Pontel and get sent every game on DVD.

As a Blazers fan it all started for me personally in about 2001. I used to be in contact with a friend who lived in Washington who would go to all of the Garfield High School games and he would occasionally send me copies of some games which he filmed. This was my first viewing of Brandon Roy, and from watching him then I knew he was going to be great.
After that I followed his career through college and was ecstatic when he was aquired by the Blazers.

Before that point, I was (and still am) a fan of the general game of Basketball, and enjoy watching any type of game. But NBA-wise, Blazers are my team since MJ retired (the 2nd time with the Bulls)…..

There are a ton of Blazer fans in Eugene. We watch and travel and cheer for our
Blazers! DaniBCN: thank you for your post. To the team and management, thank you so much for all the blood, sweat, tears and cheers. You have made a lot of people happy!! Enjoy yourselves and let’s dominate the series!!!! Blazers all the way!!!!! Remember what you believe you can achieve! Go Blazers!

Love the passion I’m seeing from all over the world. I’ve been a Blazers fan since 1991-92 and have been through the standard ups and (massive) downs since then.

It’s so uplifting to see where the Blazers are at now.

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Hell of an effort from Rudy and Sergio.

and have carried that fandom across the Caribbean , East Coast, and now to Hong Kong.
The Blazers, for me, are like Thanksgiving, phone calls with family (in Oregon) and hanging with old friends. It’s a reminder of home.

I live in Zagreb, Croatia and have been outside of the US for the vast majority of the last 14 years. Born and raised in North Portland, I’ve been a Blazer fan since I was about 5 years old watching games with my Dad. Before the days of widespread internet my folks would mail me the sports section of the Oregonian weekly so I could keep up with the Blazers. Obviously with the BEdge and NBA TV, it’s much easier to keep up these days. Sometimes it’s hard to drag myself out of bed at 0400 to watch a ball game on a week day and occasionally I’ve been a bad fan and just rolled back over, but I’ve seen the majority of the games this year. I’m sure my neighbors are not my biggest fans hearing me jump around and scream at my computer screen in the middle of the night. One of the coolest things about living here in Zagreb is how much they remember and honor Dražen Petrović, in fact the local stadium here bears his name. When I first got here last summer I saw a kid in his teens on the tram wearing on old school Blazers jersey with Dražen’s name on the back. How’s that for a connection back home? When the locals ask me where I’m from in the States and hear my answer almost everyone of them say something along the lines of "That’s the team that picked Petrović! It’s where he got his start in the NBA!" I just beam with pride.

Been a Blazer fan since a fateful night in 1998.

I fell in love with the team watching them playing the Bulls. Got my heart broken but never stopped following the Blazers after that.
After I went to the US in 2004 I became a real fan, following the team closely, and getting to know more of the Blazer´s history and about the city too.
I´ve never been to Portland, but the impression is that the city is special and the relationship between the city and the team is something I haven´t seen anywhere alse in the US.
All I know is that even if I hadn´t started to watch the NBA at the 1992 finals I´d probably be a Blazer fan.

I become a bigger fan. It’s been my connection even if the team was one I couldn’t love. This team though… following them through their losing, the transition to KP and Nate, the drafting of Roy and Aldridge (where I thought the future was coming together with that move), driving to watch summer league games and the new rookies, the experience has been amazing. That feeling of despair transitioned to hope over the last four years, and not it’s been solidified into belief. Not for future years, but this year.

I could become emotional and wax on poetically about how I feel about this team and the ashes they’ve risen out of, but I maintain that it’s not time yet. the best is yet to come, this year, and we haven’t seen ANYTHING yet.

What connection do I share with others around the world? I share the surfing of the internet to find the channel that’s airing the game. I share the shouts and joy of a great play and the hope that the players will take the game to many higher levels. I share the wish that the blazers could keep all of it’s players and that all the players could showcase their talents with the minutes they deserve. I share the elation of where the blazers have come from and the hope of where they’re going. I share the amazement when I see great plays and great chemistry. I share satisfaction as the defense steps up and stuff Kobe or other stars. I share chills as I watch videos of the game and can see and hear the crowd rise as one. Where are those taco eating soft drink sipping people now? The forest of people standing must be hiding them.

I share BE, I share the blazers, and i share the dream and BELIEF of things to come.

But I have to say that hearing from people all around the world is one of the things I like best about Blazers Edge. This post is a perfect example — I never would have learned those things about Joventut from the US press. Rudy is one of my favorite players because I ’ve learned how much his success means to people in Spain.

Sometimes during a good game I like to go to the Sitemeter map just to check out all of the little dots spread out over the globe. It gives me a thrill.

It’s making me Hungry!

Blazers gonna win, it’s what we’re all about
Cuz it’s something that we dig and scream and shout
Well, you wanna know what moves our soul
And what ticks inside of our brain
Well we’ve got this need we can’t control, and it’s
A-drivin’ us insane
We can’t take it! Owww!

We’re hungry for the good times, baby
Hungry through and through
Well we’re hungry for some big wins, baby
With a real fine team like you
…We can almost taste it!

There’s a custom-tailored world that we wanna own, someday
With a special place up high where we can stay alone, you and me
Blazers gonna have it all someday if we’ll
Just hang on to Nate’s hand
If we break some rules along the way, the refs
Gotta understand
It’s our way of gettin’ what we want now, ‘cause we’re hungry

Cuz we’re hungry for the good times, baby
Hungry through and through
Well we’re hungry for some big wins, baby
With a real fine team like you
…We can almost taste it!

Gonna win each game, fill the hours and days
‘Til we’ve had our fill
The Blazers will be rollin’ in it
Yes, yes, you know we will, yes we will, owww!

Cuz we’re hungry for the good times, baby
Hungry through and through
Well we’re hungry for some big wins, baby
With a real fine team like you
…We can almost taste it!