Well I was basically forced to watch the leafs when I was little kid in the 90's but I never followed hockey that much. Then once I started following it more I realized the leafs sucked at and they could never beat Buffalo so I became a sabres fan

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just call me Brad

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mine was miroslav satan. i don't know what was wrong with me.

Born in Bradford Pa. Followed them slightly but didn't have cable so never could watch. Moved to NC the lockout year and then the next year hockey was big since the Hurricanes were doing well and me and my dad obviously knew the Sabres were in the playoffs and watched those games, especially against the Hurricanes. After that, we got high speed internet and I could watch online or listen to it.

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2006 my buddy had been begging me to get into hockey, but i just couldnt, then finally i started watching games due to the bills being so bad, and started to catch on to it, THEN.....decided to finally go to a game, by myself, turns out to be a pretty good one, GAME 6 against carolina, brieres wicked wrister over ward, i was HOOKED!...its been my first love ever since

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Buffalo born, Buffalo Bred, Ill love my hockey, till im Buffalo dead!

pure masochism.

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I lived through four lost Super Bowls and broke up with the Bills. Football was always bigger than hockey in my house but my family watched every Sabres' game none the less. I grew up with RJ in the background. After living in Germany for four years and being starved for anything Buffalo related I found myself in Florida and picked up the Center Ice package in 2006. I have only missed a handful of games since and have grown into a die hard fan. I always had hockey in my life, played some too but I didn't really become a day to day hockey hound until five years ago.

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What made you lean toward being a Sabres fan as opposed to a Hurricanes fan?

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

Hahaha...I think I got Satan's autograph during one of those Sabres carnivals they used to have.

A few years ago I saw Peca at the movies with his wife and kids, and I was tempted to tell him that he was my first hockey crush when I was a kid, but then I decided against it thinking it may have been a little strange.

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

Birth. I had sabres everything when I was a kid and had primestar when i was a kid to watch the games.. omg Primestar.. thats old school.

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The Board Drunk.

my friend had primestar when we were like 11 or 12. we would stay up late and watch softcore porn. he was so worried about getting caught, he missed a sweet lesbian sex scene. well, sweet when you are 12.

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Same..

I don;t how people just become fans of a team one day. The Sabres and Bills have always been in my life. I have tried various times to get into local teams in the course of moving with the military but I have zero love for anyone but my hometown guys. I went to games and tried to get to know the players but it was like fucking a fat cancer patient. There may be good intentions but it just feels wrong.

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Because I grew up in PA and only really knew about them through the news and a bit of the newspaper.

and my dad is a Bills and Sabres fan. He's not as big of a fan of the Sabres as I but nonetheless, a fan and normally asks me where they are in the standings now.

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I think the real question for people like us is what was your defining moment? like obvkously being born into it, weve always been around this team, but what was it that made you more than just a casual fan?


like for me the moment I became a real fan came young. it was the 99 stanley cup run. i was only 10 but knew all the rules, the players, how important those games really were. I still remember when my mom made me goto bed during the 3ot, and crying even worse when my dad told me in the morning we lost..

Mine was moving away. I realized how much I was a fan when I couldn't see games anymore

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I was technically a fan for most of my life. My parents are from Buffalo and my uncle was a Sabres fan (i say was because he kind of jumped ship a few years ago...or more so hes a Habs fan who is secretly a Sabres fan...) who learned to like hockey from my mom. My uncle would take my and my brother to games in the Aud and a few in Marine Midland (in fact, before the last series against Philly my last sabres game was in Marine Midland). I didnt following the team and all that until the 2006 playoffs.

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"That wasn't very nice...I do believe you killed my hat."

Driver of the FIRE LINDY RUFF Bandwagon since 2008.

I grew up in Olean and went to my first Sabres game when I was in like 2nd or 3rd grade. To be honest I wasn't really a hockey fan as a kid though. I lived and breathed baseball, then tennis, with an interest in football. Then I dumped sports for music and just became a casual fan of everything.

When I was 18 I moved to Montreal to go to McGill. To be honest, if I hadn't, I wouldn't be the hockey fan I now am. Everyone (well almost) in Canada loves hockey, and I was exposed to it waaaaaaaay more than I was growing up. I became a fan of the game. Then I moved to Buffalo after graduating and they had this guy named Hasek playing goalie that my friends in Montreal had been telling me about since he helped them beat the Bruins in the playoffs. I started watching on TV, went to a few games, and I was hooked.

Exactly what he said. We don't have a sports bar we can all be at and talk about this stuff. So thought I would get some background. Hearing stories like these are pretty awesome. Everyone has their own story to tell. Talk radio show around here did it a month or so back and you heard some amazing things.

Being at the game I remember everything about it. Parties spilling all over town. Cars riding by with people on the roof shouting into megaphones. "Let's go Buffalo" chanting all the way into the arena. The zinger off the post and the silence as that puck was traveling to the goal. Running out of food and beer in like the second overtime. All they had was nacho cheese. All of it is engrained in my memory.

I was just coming in here to post this.

That's the only way I could possibly continue to be a fan.

NHL 93 or 94 (cant remember which one) for the SNES