Okay; between this latest and greatest version of The Sabres Forums, and the old actual team site(s), what are your first memories?

Mine are the first people I interacted with, when I first joined in 2005 I believe. Realoldgoalie, Tsujimoto, NewfieJesus, drunkenexsabre, and a couple others I will remember after I post this. Polish Assassin and Bill Schultz were always a hoot; it's a shame Bill was put into a nursing home last year.... drunken sobered up, then disappeared.

I remember the second wave of people who replaced the initial group within a few months. Schony, TR Birdman, SF4, KrucifiedKevin, and of course our little buddy The Bowler were an intersting group as well. The gutter group was, well just interesting stuff. Froggie and SG14120 made thing interesting for a while, also.

Yours?

From the old forums, I lurked for a long time and didn't officially join until this past summer. I think I was just starting to get to know who all the regulars were when XC made this kick ass place and we all made the leap.

Considering I'm still kind of a 'rook around these parts, I think the first contact I had directly with anyone from the old official boards was with Phil. I believe it was he who when I had posted a pic of the Mrs and I, said my jersey should have had #10 on it as opposed to #29 since apparently I look like Hank Then the exchange of metal awesomeness took place (He introduced me to some killer fucking metal bands) and we set up our tour of the great city of Buffalo at the beginning of this season with Melly, Phil, MM and I. At that time, MM was a Habs fan. When we make our return in 14 days, she will officially be a true member of the Blue & Gold! Complete with her very own Tyler Myers 3rd jersey!

Since then, we've all been one big, delusional, dysfunctional happy family!

Thanks for providing us with this wonderful land of padded walls, XC!

And it didn't even take much to convert her, either!

my first memory was getting banned for two hours by squanto, because i saw caroline gushing over marilyn monroe, and being the blunt person i am, i asked if she was a lesbian. i was 5 posts in! then beth jumped down my throat for being against gays, which shocked me. after that, i was all... fuck this place, but stayed around anyways.

you PMed me asking if i was going to be a close minded troll, and i was all "i meant no harm what so ever!" then kinda turned it over on you explaining why i shouldnt have been timed out and allowed to defend myself (as i was under serious fire while being timed out)

you allowed me back on, and those were the end of my controversial days, for at least a week.

shockingly, a few months later, the person who was the harshest on me, beth, started talking to me regularly. i thought it was a set up. i figured she was gonna bitch me out for sure for at least a week.

Dude I remember that happening.

Oh, and someone mentioned how anyone who joined the forums in 2005-2007 was labeled a bandwagoner. I remember that well. Haha. Now, a lot of them were, and they admitted it, but as far as I know they're all still fans. (Unless you're raised in a household where something is everything, everyone becomes a bandwagon fan of something at some point, typically; people don't generally become fans en masse of things receiving absolutely no exposure.)

Oh, and someone mentioned how anyone who joined the forums in 2005-2007 was labeled a bandwagoner. I remember that well. Haha. Now, a lot of them were, and they admitted it, but as far as I know they're all still fans. (Unless you're raised in a household where something is everything, everyone becomes a bandwagon fan of something at some point, typically; people don't generally become fans en masse of things receiving absolutely no exposure.)



I remember all that as well. Absolutely hilarious in retrospect.