Nil d wrote:

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Someone mentioned switching allegiances a few posts ago, and it got me to thinking.
Have all of you been Hab fans all your life?  Or were some of you once cheering for some other team and then saw the light?  It's OK to admit it; that would be a sign of maturity.
I have heard many times "I used to cheer for the Leafs/Bruins/Oilers/insert team here", but not once in my life have I ever heard anyone say "I used to cheer for the Habs".
I know a few people who are Habs fans and have lost interest in hockey altogether, but they still keep an eye on the sports pages and know what the team is doing, even if they don't watch the games anymore.
Has anyone of you ever met a former Hab fan?

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Get this one. My cousin switched from the Habs to the Leafs...

Zulrath wrote:

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Actually now that i think of it. While growing up through elementary school, it seems to me becoming an Avalanche fan was an extremely popular thing. There were many Habs fans among us, but with the Avs getting Patrick Roy and the Habs not doing too well, many people switched alliances.

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Zulrath, you beat me to it.  I was going to say the same - growing up in Ontario, I can recall several people who were supposed "die-hard" Habs fans that jumped ship and moved to Colorado with Roy.  I, however, was not one of them.  I guess that's what you get growing up in Leafs country - there are really only 2 teams in the NHL....and the blue and white one doesn't count.  

24 Rings wrote:

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I have no idea what you are talking about, but I am switching allegiences to my new favourite team - the Atlanta Thrashers (aka. Hotlanta). Man, you guys and girls are so flaky.

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How are we flaky?

There's been times I've thought about it, but the stripes around the middle of the Jersey keep me looking slim.

Besides, I'd look ridiculous with a threatening duck, or an over-anxious cat on my chest ...

Nil d wrote:

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Someone mentioned switching allegiances a few posts ago, and it got me to thinking. Have all of you been Hab fans all your life?  Or were some of you once cheering for some other team and then saw the light? 

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I've been a die hard habs fan since about 1971, my first Habs game however was a playoff game in 1967 or 68 when I was a kid.


-- Edited by The Kahuna at 01:02, 2006-05-09

I've been a Habs fan all my life. However, when Patrick Roy was traded to Colorado, they became my 2nd favorite team, and they still are. But I don't follow them as I follow the Habs. With Colorado I'll just be happy when they win, but I rarely watch their games.

Figaro wrote:

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I was a Roy-al subject, but when he was traded, I hated. I'm a Habs fan happens to prefer certain Habs' players over other. But once you gone, you gone.

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If I may, I'd like to join in with you on that sentiment by retelling the naming of my oldest son.  My wife was 8 months (or so) pregnant with our oldest boy.  We knew early on he would be a boy, and we had picked the name Patrick after St. Patrick himself.  In the matter of one fatefull day in December, our son was no longer to be a Patrick.  He was then to be named Alexander after my wife's grandfather.  And, how I managed to name him after myself, is a story in itself, that I choose not to tell, for fear that the ladies on this board may no longer talk to me.

MC Girl wrote:

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How are we flaky?

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I was being facecious.

Only tem I ever rooted for are the Habs. I saw the Playoff series between them and the Bruins in 71 and have been a fan ever since. I watched them beat the Bruins with Dryden in net and that was it. My brother and father all cheered for the Bruins of course, but I was the lone hold out. So thats it

Nil d wrote:

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Someone mentioned switching allegiances a few posts ago, and it got me to thinking. Have all of you been Hab fans all your life?  Or were some of you once cheering for some other team and then saw the light?  It's OK to admit it; that would be a sign of maturity. I have heard many times "I used to cheer for the Leafs/Bruins/Oilers/insert team here", but not once in my life have I ever heard anyone say "I used to cheer for the Habs". I know a few people who are Habs fans and have lost interest in hockey altogether, but they still keep an eye on the sports pages and know what the team is doing, even if they don't watch the games anymore. Has anyone of you ever met a former Hab fan?

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Never ...oncea hab always a hab....remember watching the games with my dad on the old black and white t.v. ...use to take 5 minutes to warm up when you turned it on    lol ...love the habs  even though somtimes they tic me off "GO HABS GO"  

I must say a few of your responses astound me!  I can't imagine being a Hab fan and switching  - for the sake of one player, no less - even if it's Patrick Roy. 

No player has ever been bigger than the team for me.  I would have been terribly disappointed had they traded, say, Jean Beliveau, but would have still stuck with the team.  As much as I loved Guy Lafleur, when he retired and then resurfaced with other teams, it didn't even register a blip, so to speak, in the big scheme of things.

I know several Leaf fans who switched to Boston when Orr, Esposito and Sanderson came along, but I've never met a Hab fan who deserted the ship, even in the lean years.