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This is the season I became a Spurs fan. I was 5 years old, and was too young to stay up, so my mom taped it and I watched it before school eating cereal.
David Robinson led the Spurs to a gut-wrenching Game 7 in the 1990 Western Conference Semifinals loss against Portland, a game in which San Antonio led by 7 points with a little over 2:30 to play, where Rod Strickland threw a no-look pass to the baseline cameramen?
I was a senior in high school and watched it from a sports bar back in the good ole days when a fake ID was as easy to come by as getting any old Joe off the street to buy a high school kid a six pack of beer.
I remember not being overly disappointed by the loss, thinking that from 1991 on, the Spurs were a dynasty in making and David Robinson was to become one of the top five players in NBA history.
This is the season I became a Spurs fan. I was 5 years old, and was too young to stay up, so my mom taped it and I watched it before school eating cereal.
Who Cares!!!!!!!!!!!
^Awesome! You are a true diehard fan.
I was far too young, I was just about three years old then, didn't become a real fan until about 2000 or so, when me and my dad bonded really well because of the games. He's from San Antonio but I'm from Dallas, so I wasn't a diehard Spurs fan until after that but I wish I were a fan from my birthdate onward!
High School as well. There was a feeling that the Spurs would be a dynasty and that the 90 team would stay together. It was one of the deepest Spurs teams of all time. Full of great young talent - funny to think of the Spurs as a young team but that's what they were. If Larry Brown was a little more giving and didn't ride everyone's patience into dust he just might have gotten his ring a lot earlier. The sad part was that after 95 and before 99, that 90 team began to look like maybe the most promising team they had yet and it all slipped away. TD's arrival was great in ridding all the ghosts of the 90s.
I was a junior in High School in Las Vegas. I remember getting so pissed off that I had to drive down to the local 7-11 to buy some smokes. Until then, smoking was just something I did whenever I was around friends who smoked. From that day forward, it became an official stress reliever.
Doghouse, that's a cool reason! Thanks for sharing it!
I hear ya, but Spurs fans from back in the day care, that's who. As fans we don't get paid to be fans, but enjoy the entertainment. Part of the package, I would assume, would be sharing some memories.
I was still in the womb.
I was 5 years old basketball was the least bit interesting to me
Awesome! And you saved yourself plenty of frustration. ha ha
I also was a senior in High School. I remember it was a weekend afternoon game. I was at a friends house where a bunch of us gathered. We all thought the Spurs had the game won in regulation. Then we all know what happened. I was in shock after the game. It took a long time to get over that loss for me. I remember thinking that the Spurs would have destroyed the Suns in the WCF had we won that game 7.
Out of high school but at a friends house watching the game....we were all convinced that the next year the le was ours!
Oops.had to wait a few years.
I was at home watching the game with my two brothers. I was so excited about "thinking" they'd win it...I climbed the tree in my back yard and just yelled out that the Spurs were advancing to the next round. Then, lightning struck! The "shock" of knowing that the lead slipped away. Then, lightning struck twice...Rod Strickland pulled the most idioted play of his career. That's when Clyde Drexler took over.....
Oh God! The agony.
I was in college watching in a sports bar.
That was the year that I seriously started following the Spurs.
I was at home watching the game, and when I saw Strick toss that ball to no one (he probably thought Sean was there for whatever reason), my jaw just dropped and I proceeded to run off a list of expletives that went on for quite some time.
16+ years and 3 championships later, I can laugh about that now.
I'll never forget that game. I was watching it with my cousins at our grandparent's house. 14 yrs. old and I got to watch a frustrating loss like that for my team for the first time. Looking back, that experience may have helped me deal with more disapointing sports moments later on for my favorite teams like watching the Frank Reich comeback vs. the Oilers, Hakeem vs. the Admiral, McNair's pass to Dyson one yard short, and oh yes... .04.
Last edited by valluco; 12-14-2006 at 12:41 AM.
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I was 8 years old and a big spurs fan, The loss didnt affect me like a big loss would today
I was at the game, I also was at game 5 way up in the nosebleeds of the Memorial Collusium. That was the year I became a Spurs fan too. It was a heartbreaking loss but I never stopped giving Blazer fans crap, or stoped loving the Spurs.
I was 7 years old and at home in Phoenix pissed off that the Blazers beat the Suns in the series before and then more pissed that they were going to the Finals
(Sports Illustrated for Kids had done a nice article on David Robinson, so I was cheering for him and I'd just gotten his rookie card in a pack of Upper Deck cards.)
i was a snot faced kid watching at home.
Junior high in Frankfurt, Germany. Great game.
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