Reasons why..

[charmie21]

hey guys.. just out of the blue, this question popped out of my mind.. what are your reasons why you became an avid spurs fan..?? please bear with me.. thanks..

[Dex]

I started really caring just before we drafted Tim. My Dad explained what kind of player Duncan was supposed to be, and what he was hopefully going to do for our franchise, so I started tuning in to see if he was right or not.

The '99 le Run really did it for me. I was too young to really consider myself an avid fan before then. Going into that postseason, Pops told me that it was finally going to be the Spurs time, and to really watch their run through the playoffs. So I did, and I've been hooked ever since.

I don't really consider it bandwagoning because I've been a Spurs fan all my life. , when I was just a little tyke, I used to carry around my little Spurs Coyote stuffed animal everywhere I would go. It was the only toy I ever really got attached to.

These are just the things that made me an avid Spurs follower.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

I started really caring just before we drafted Tim. My Dad explained what kind of player Duncan was supposed to be, and what he was hopefully going to do for our franchise, so I started tuning in to see if he was right or not.

The '99 le Run really did it for me. I was too young to really consider myself an avid fan before then. Going into that postseason, Pops told me that it was finally going to be the Spurs time, and to really watch their run through the playoffs. So I did, and I've been hooked ever since.

I don't really consider it bandwagoning because I've been a Spurs fan all my life. , when I was just a little tyke, I used to carry around my little Spurs Coyote stuffed animal everywhere I would go. It was the only toy I ever really got attached to.

These are just the things that made me an avid Spurs follower.

Hey nobody said you had to be a spursfan right out of the womb man. That is not what bandwagoning is. You could be a fan since last year, and still be a true fan. Don't let anybody tell you different, because anybody who does just wants to make it seem like they are somehow special because of "seniority" HA! laughable!

Personally I've beena fan since 1999. I consider myself a true fan. I've been through the bad and the good with this team since then.

[Dex]

Hey nobody said you had to be a spursfan right out of the womb man. That is not what bandwagoning is. You could be a fan since last year, and still be a true fan. Don't let anybody tell you different, because anybody who does just wants to make it seem like they are somehow special because of "seniority" HA! laughable!

Personally I've beena fan since 1999. I consider myself a true fan. I've been through the bad and the good with this team since then.

Amen to that.

You always get to hear that , "Oh, you only started watching once the Spurs started winning"

I can't help it that's when I started tuning in.

We lived through the Laker Days, we paid our dues, dammit.

[gospursgojas]

, Ive been a Spurs Fan since I started to play bball. WHen I was like 6. I used to watch my dad get pissed when they loose and then beat me....j/k. But they stand for everything a team is supposed to be

[AgSnake361]

We moved to SA before my freshman year of HS in 93. Up until that point, I really never cared about basketball, I was a football and baseball player. I just kinda got turned on to the Spurs by going to games with my parents and their friends from work. Even went to a couple playoff games in 95. Been hooked ever since then.

[bigbendbruisebrother]

When I was 10, my dad took me too my first Spurs game in the fall of 1976--the team's first season in the NBA. It was against the Sonics, and Gervin, Kenon and Paultz put on a show. Kenon had a dunk that seemed to begin at the free throw line. That dunk rocked the crowd at Hemisfair, a crowd which was the raunchiest, beer drinkin'ist bunch of mongrels I'd ever seen (I had moved from Houston, and Rockets fans were much more staid). Some of you guys when opposing fans chant "bull ", but it used to be a virtual mantra at Hemisfair. When not directed at the refs (for whom the live band reguarly busted into "Three Blind Mice"), the band solicited the chant from the crowd by stomping "Cotton Eyed Joe". Hemisfair was like a huge honky-tonk with a Tejano flair, and when the game ended (I can't even remember who won), I was hooked.

[boutons]

I'm from San Antonio.
What else is there to do?

[spurschick]

I started following the Spurs when I moved to San Antonio in 1991, but I didn't start becoming an avid fan til Timmy got drafted in 1997. In 2000, when I started working at an ad agency where the Spurs were one of my clients, I learned a lot more about the organization and became even more of a fan. In 2002, Manu pushed me over the edge and into a complete fan nutcase.

[zeleni]

Why becoming a Spurs fan?

Couse you feel that is as closest as a NBA franchise can be if you are in Europe and like good basketball. Spurs without Parker and Manu are hardly the same team. Spurs without Oberto, Rasho and Beno seems... unnatural. Spurs without Pop? Need I say more?
So Spurs are great just for being a worldly team to observe. When thay play great, that is just too fine to discuss.

[Dos]

1975 I saw my first spurs game back in the old arena.. I was playing little league basketball, so because of that we got invited to a spurs game. It was the spurs vs new orleans jazz. George Gervin against pistol pete.. I can't really remember most of the game, but I remember the live band at the old arena.. total 70's .. but I've been a spurs fan ever since.... probably more so after robinson got here..

[td4mvp3]

i'm from texas but got an internship at the st. louis paper in 99. i started missing texas and the only texas thing around was the spurs in the playoffs, so i started rooting for them and got hooked when they won it all.

plus that duncan guy epitomized everything i thought was lost in b-ball, especially that bank shot that i never thought was going to go in but always seemed too and his quiet at ude about things was refreshing.

[G-Nob]

My dad was the GM of Hemisfair Arena and an event coordinator at the convention center before the spurs came to town. When they got here, they became part of the family. My mom used to cook for some of the players on Sundays.

[Mark in Austin]

I became an avid Spur fan David Robinson's rookie year.

[Ishta]

I became a Spurs fan when my Mother won a 1965 totally restored red mustang convertible from the Spurs.. I think it was some radio contest between the Spurs and KTSA...After that ...come on.. But seriously, that did happen, and I became an even bigger fan when Robinson, and Elliott came to town..Been a fan ever since..How can anyone not love such a great team?

[TimmyslameditonYAO01]

I became a spurs fan whenspurs won the second championship and i was 14. I was hooked eva since.The finisher was maliks dunk on mutombo.All the tme before that i was a king.......Yes i know what the .

[ICE3000]

I became an avid spurs fan when I went into the military in 1999 and I realized how those guys from other states hated ALL texas teams... we won the chip that year after I got out of basic training the rest is history

[Instigator]

For me it was when drob was a rookie. I just can't get enough.

[TOP-CHERRY]

I used to watch my dad get pissed when they loose and then beat me....j/k.

I've been a Spurs fan since I was about... I can't even remember. But I know I was tiny. I don't really know why I liked them. I guess I liked black and silver and I was San Antonian? Who knows...

I remember people making fun of me (even in my own family) that I would be a Spurs fan... "They suck! You know that, right?"
Stupid bandwagoners.

I remember watching games with my dad when the Spurs really, really sucked and we'd always end up disappointed. I wouldn't call myself an "avid" fan back then, but I still loved them no matter what and always rooted for them. So when Timmy was drafted, I just exploded. And when they won in 99, it was just heaven.

[ALVAREZ6]

I'm not even gonna try to lie about this, there's one reason why I became a Spurs fan: Manu Ginobili.

But after watching so many games, I'd still be a Spurs fan even if Manu weren't a Spur.

[spursfaninla]

My dad was the GM of Hemisfair Arena and an event coordinator at the convention center before the spurs came to town. When they got here, they became part of the family. My mom used to cook for some of the players on Sundays.

Dude, if you remember some of that, you should write about it, I know I would like to hear as much as you are able to remember about all of this.

sweet.

[j-6]

I started following the team in 1987 when they drafted David Robinson and people couldn't believe the team drafted a guy that wasn't going to be able to play for at least two years (and if I remember right, something like four was possible) because of his Navy commitment.

The first time I ever went to a game was in '88, the year when the Cadillac from UH made the All-Rookie team and the Spurs made the playoffs despite only winning like 30 games. We went to a Lakers game, my Dad's favorite team at the time. My parents let me skip school the next day.

[TOP-CHERRY]

^That's cool

[ObiwanGinobili]

I became a Spurs fan while working at a bar in Victoria. We had a patio with a huge big screen and had quite a few regulars who were Spurs fans. I never liked basketball, but by the end of the season I was hooked on the Spurs. I even traded shifts to be there for game nights.
Ever since then I've been an AVID Spurs fan... but it took me a year or two to pay any attention to basketball outside of SA.. and sometimes it's still a chore to gain basketball knowledge. But it all effects my Spurs somehow, so I try.
It's been 5 years.

[tmtcsc]

My town, my team since 1980