Born and raised in San Antonio.....born during the ABA years and I have been a fan my whole life. It isn't even close, the Spurs and the Cowboys have been my two favorite teams since birth. As a child I became a fan of the Judson Rockets, Texas Longhorns (Roger Clemens in baseball, Eric Metcalf is still my favorite Longhorn football player of all time), Houston Astros (I miss the Astrodome, Biggio, and Bagwell), and the Pittsburgh Penguins. I was also a SA Gunslingers fan, as well as SA Riders, Texans. As a kid, I was a big SA Dodgers fan, but I am not a big Missions fan (though, if we could get a MLB team and call them the Missions, I would be a huge fan). I actually root for the CC Hooks, since they belong to the Astros. I am also a fan of the Silver Stars.
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Spurs fan from Virginia. 1st team i can remember watching on tv was the Spurs ,for some reason, and remember watching Tim and David play. When I got into the NBA a few years later I starting cheering for the Spurs. The 1st season I became a fan, we wound up winning in '05. Been die hard going on 9 seasons now and watch about 40 games a season
Born and raised. Now living in the steaming cesspool of Laker fanboys that is LA.
What are the odds we're both Spurs fans living VA? Crazy...
I am from D ROBs hometown here so I heard alot about him in the area and immediately became a fan of his and the Spurs! He came to Woodbridge from FLA and settled here and went to High School near here. I took that and ran with it as a fan and never looked back! Been on board since 92-93. Not many fans here in VA of the Spurs, definitely not bandwaggoners (Mostly LA fans, bandwaggoners).
Wife is from San Anton... although I was a fan before getting married.
Never lived in San Antonio. Spurs were the first team I watched in 96 in the NBA when my best friend was a Rockets fan. I picked the Spurs and became an avid(checking stats, watching every game, reruns including) Spurs fan since 97. I've been to 73 Spurs games(lived in Tampa, FL and now in Dallas), half being at Spurs home. I've always been a fan of defensive players/teams.
gosh same here. Started rooting them cos of the admiral. Back then Singapore hardly showed nba games on the TV so the only news i could get about the spurs were the sports scores and basketball trading cards. still have my collection of david robinson cards. finally visited San Antonio earlier this year during the nba finals game 5. that's my first nba game ever and my first visit to USA ha.
i remembered that season too. The admiral was the MVP of the regular season and honestly its more painful than game 6 against the heat... hakeem and the rockets were always that WALL which were in the admiral's path to the finals.... don't hate hakeem but i can't say he didn't give me nightmares hahah.
lot of interesting responses from above, it's always interesting to see why a place or team resonates with people.
nothing wrong with this. there are lots of reasons for following a team, from location, culture of team, favorite player etc....
this is probably a good thing, she will be more understanding of your Manu.
"8 turnovers....no problem, you're cleared for landing."
also interesting to see Va fans like Cagney and cd021. of all the places I've lived growing up, Va was the one I have fondest memories. when they were talking about Va Beach getting a team, I would've rooted for them along with Spurs and whenever Warriors go back to San Fran.
my personal connection to SA was grandparents lived there, i lived there as a kid, brother is from there, i've lost 3 of my close family members in SA....so long and strange history with SA. i live near Austin now. lots of things I love about Texas, lots of things I hate. those types of relationships can last a long time.
this is probably a good thing, she will be more understanding of your Manu
"8 turnovers....no problem, you're cleared for landing."
tbh, whenever we meet up with Manu, she gets that deer-in-the-headlights look, and won't say a word. Which is absurd, since we chatted up the guy like 10 times already. But once we're done talking she's happy as .
Yeah, I first started out as a Tim Duncan fan. I just liked the way he handled himself and the little amount of media attention around him. I'm originally from an island so we don't have any sports teams locally that we can root for so everyone back home roots for different teams. I'm probably one of the few of my friends that has stuck with a team this long. My fandom of the Spurs has increased every season since I've started watching them to the point now where I think I need to relax on how much I follow them.
that's pretty cool. i don't blame her, i'd probably have a brainfart too if I saw Manu. even all the I talk after the Finals, if I were to bump into him I'd probably just say Congrats on making the Finals, if at all. when I met Bruce Campbell years ago, he made some small talk and I didn't even reply to his question
tbh, whenever we meet up with Manu, she gets that deer-in-the-headlights look, and won't say a word. Which is absurd, since we chatted up the guy like 10 times already. But once we're done talking she's happy as .
Always followed NBA, never a fan of a particular franshise...
Then, in 2003, SA signed Rasho... year later I found this board - Rasho left, I stayed
Pretty much grew up at the corner of Military and Marbach back in 80's. Worked for the Spurs in the locker rooms in my sop re and junior years for Trainer John Anderson (84-85 and 85-86). Was there when Ice was traded. When Johnny Moore got sick. Volunteered for Gene Banks' Fiesta League basketball program on the East Side. Worked a few charity golf tournaments put on by the team or players. Got the chance to shake hands with arguably the greatest group of active players at one time (Kareen, Magic, Bird, McHale, Dr. J, Jordan, etc). Wore Kaepa gear for our uniform! LOL!
Came back to SA after college and stayed until '99 when the job took us to Houston. Spent years enduring Rocket Fan while my Spurs won four les. Was in Detroit for work the night of Game 6 in 2005 and was scared to venture outside after that Piston loss. Flew back to Houston during game 7, catching the last 2 minutes of the game in the terminal when we landed, celebrating in front of Rocket Fan. Just moved to London where I have pissed off the locals for swearing my allegiance to the Tottenham Spurs (I live in the village where Chelsea has their training grounds and where many of the players live).
Born in SA
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I Think Thousand Oaks Elementary might have been in there somewhere. We moved around alot in the 80s.
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The only Spurs game I saw in person was in 95. We were going for 16 wins in a row and lost. A friend from church took me with him. We went to a pre-game buffet under the court and shook hands with a few of the players (including big Dave) and then sat 2 rows behind the home bench and listened to Rodman cuss and crawl around the floor every time he went to the bench. - Good times!
Moved to Georgia when Kelly Air Field was BRAC'd
Have gone to the Spurs/Hawks game every other year since we moved here(the schedules have just worked out that way)
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Spurs fan since 1988.
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Last edited by Humberto; 08-13-2013 at 10:11 AM.
i was born in san antonio. we moved to kansas when i was 4 or 5, but i always remembered my uncles being huge spurs fans, and i specifically remember their george gervin poster. a few years later we moved down to corpus. i had never been into pro sports at the time, but i really liked playing basketball. one friday night (can't believe i remember the details, pretty sure it was 1991), i was at home channel surfing, and fox was showing a spurs game. and i was amazed at what david robinson could do. it was just crazy for a man of his size be so athletic. it was a close game, but they ended up winning.
so i was hooked from that night on.
born and raised in SATX, remembering Rod Strickland, David Robinson, Willy Anderson balling on s, terry mings!
SA born, raised and living
For 3 years between 1991 & 1998 I lived in San Antonio. Otherwise, I figure I'm a Laredoan so I shouldn't have to explain why I'm a Spur fan.
I lived here since I was 5
My father retired in San Antonio at Fort Sam in 1969. He was later employeed as a personal home chef for Joe Straus Sr., one of the original investors of the Spurs. (his grandson, Joe III is speaker of the Texas Houses of Reps).
Mr. Straus and his wife were elderly, and although of course they had season tickets, rarely attended games.
Lots of times they would give their tickets to my dad. These were box seats at the Hemisfair Arena. They weren't luxurious by today's box seat standards, but they were at mid court about 10 rows up. Red McCombs sat in the row in front of us. It was great meeting all the players, back in the day, especially my all-time favorite player, the Iceman.
I have a lot of other fun connections to the Spurs, but this is the one that made me a life long fan.
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