How Long You Been A Suns fan?

[Skkorpion]

1976 when I moved here. Had season tickets at $8 per seat per game in the handicap section at the Madhouse on McDowell. Stuck with them until 6 years ago when they priced me out the arena.

Still love the team but will never give Colangelo another dime of my money. I'll go back when the last fan-backstabbing Colangelo is gone.

It ain't no mystery why they don't sell out much - high ticket prices.

 

[earthsci]

...the year the Cards came to town and I became a rabid fan there also. 1988...

Yup. I always wanted the NFL in AZ. When the Cards moved here I switched my allegience to AZ teams. As we get new teams, they become my favorite.

 

[Espo]

I have been a suns fan since '91 or so. I love the team and the Suns are my first love. I will never forget the 90's and how much fun the suns were to watch. It's so nice to see them scoring in the 100's and having fun again.

 

[cardsunsfan]

I became a fan when i was in the second grade. I can still remember it. Me and my friend Dante used to spend all our free time playing basketball at reecess. naturally since we lived in PHX, that was our team. We had championship games from 5th thru 8th grade. I won every single won of them suckers. Even when Dante and my team let our basketball coach take me away from them. I made them pay, dealt them an L. Age 14 at 5'10 I could dunk, but my specialty was defense and 3 pointers. Then I found beer and now here I am.

Ok totally off subject but it had those memories in my head for some reason.

Good think Kate wasn't your age and on one of the teams you played I've been a Suns fan about as long as you....

 

[JCSunsfan]

Went to Los Arcos Mall when it opened to get Suns giveaway balls.

But I really started paying attention to them during the WC finals against Golden State during their run to the finals in 1976.

I was in Jr High.

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

I was a huge fan of the Arizona teams (and sports in general) since I was about 4 (so about '89).

 

[green machine]

I'd say about the same time I really got into sports, which was around the 92 season. I had gone to games before then, but that is when I really became a sports fan, and ever since been agonizing over the home teams.

 

[Bada0Bing]

I LOVED the red, white and blue striped basketballs and had several of them

I still have one. I break it out every now and then and bring it to the court to make people laugh. I was a huge Dr. J fan and therefore became a Sixer fan. Barkley was traded here one year before I moved here, so it was easy to adopt the Suns as my team.

 

[Sundance]

I've been a Suns fan since... this summer. As soon as Nash left the Mavericks, the Suns instantly became my favorite team; the Mavericks being relegated to a distant second. I really hate Cuban, and the the new version Mavs leave alot to be desired. They're just too difficult to watch now without Nash. Poor Dirk. Poor Finley.


Go Suns! Win it all! Make Cuban pay!

 

[Mulli]

I have been a Suns' fan since I can remember which probably equates to about 30 years. First player I remember liking was Truck Robinson. Someone used to roll out a small truck onto the court during the game.

I went to a ton of games at the Madhouse on McDowell. The seats in the upper deck made even Moses Malone and Kareem look tiny.

 

[thegrahamcrackr]

Since I was about 7. That would put me around the 90-91 season. I just watched games with my dad back then. I got really big into the Suns and NBA in general around 98, and have grown from there.

 

[AzKarl]

Been a Fan since 1968 and their first year

We moved here in March 1967 when I was 12 and I have been a fan for 36 years. I remember some of the first players on the original expansion team like Gary Gregor, Gail Goodrich, Dick Van Arsdale, etc.. They've come a long way.

 

[TRW]

I still have one. I break it out every now and then and bring it to the court to make people laugh. I was a huge Dr. J fan and therefore became a Sixer fan. Barkley was traded here one year before I moved here, so it was easy to adopt the Suns as my team.

Way cool! Unfortunately, I can't hoop any more because of bad wheels and a bit of old age

 

[Biclops]

reading this post... it seems like there's alot of long time suns fan

just out of curiousity how old is everyone on this board?

I am 21 yrs old right now and Ive been a big fan since 97... right when i was bout 14-15

just curious because i usually only talk about sports with people my own age and wondered how old you guys were

 

[TRW]

We moved here in March 1967 when I was 12 and I have been a fan for 36 years. I remember some of the first players on the original expansion team like Gary Gregor, Gail Goodrich, Dick Van Arsdale, etc.. They've come a long way.

Gary Gregor was the Suns first draft pick wasn't he? Or was that Jerry Chambers? Memory is getting faulty, I used to know all that stuff lol

 

[TRW]

reading this post... it seems like there's alot of long time suns fan

just out of curiousity how old is everyone on this board?

I am 21 yrs old right now and Ive been a big fan since 97... right when i was bout 14-15

just curious because i usually only talk about sports with people my own age and wondered how old you guys were

51 here

 

[Mulli]

33 here

 

[KingLouieLouie]

I've been following the Suns since the late 80s, however, I was living in Metro-Detroit as a diehard fan of the much hated "Bad Boys" (was a Pistons loyalist for 20+ years)..... I gradually began to root for the Suns a lot more when I relocated out here to the "Valley" in 5/02, however, didnt completely switch my allegiances until last season.... The irony....when the Pistons won last year's championship...I only watched one quarter because it happened to be on tv at a local bar and I had no choice in the matter....Otherwise, I cared less since the Suns werent involved.......

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

since i was 5 years old and my parents made me go up to bill walton and ask him to get outta my seat courtside. that'd be 30 years for me.

 

[Gaddabout]

My dad became a casual Suns fan in 1971, when we moved here. I was two years old. We followed the 75 Suns team with a little dish on top of our Flagstaff duplex. I started reading at least one sports page each day in 1976. Being such a newspaper freak, one year my parents bought me subscriptions for Christmas to several weeklies and a couple dailies from around the country, but it was always stuff about the Suns I was looking for. Thank the Lord for the Internet!

It's weird what one remembers. Obviously, I have many memories of players and situations, but none more vivid than Walter Davis hitting 18 FGs in a row. I also recall Davis slipping on an ice-slicked floor at Great Western Forum in a preseason game and ruining the season.

I remember the Gorilla upsetting Pat Riley and Kareem Abdjul Jabbar with very pointed videos and skits. When Kareem retired, he confessed he'd always felt the Gorilla was a racist (or at least inappropriate) mascot for a basketball team.

I remember Al Bianchi doing his best Bobby Knight impression throwing a chair on the floor. I remember Jerry Colangelo giving Bob Boze Bell the boot/arena ban in front of everyone and blackballing Norm Frauenheim for his investigation into the death of Johnny High and the subsequent grand jury investigation.

I remember the draft selection of Majerle being booed but the draft selection of Armon Gilliam praised. I remember ambivalence towards Tim Perry, although everyone tried to turn him into the next Larry Nance. I remember Ed Pinkney, with one great game (in the NCAA Championships at Villanova), being described as a savior.

I remember the only time the Suns had a legitimate front line: 6-10 Larry Nance, 6-9 Maurice Lucas and 7-1 James Edwards. These guys may have won a championship if Luke didn't get hurt in the playoffs. They gave those great Lakers teams fits. Imagine if Dennis Johnson hadn't been traded, too ... wow, what a defensive team that would've been. Makes me sad ...

 

[Assface]

I've been a fan since they beat the Lakers the other day.

 

[BC867]

I first visited the Valley in 1970 and said, "This is where I want to spend the rest of my life." But the job market was extremely tight, so I went back to New Jersey . . . and got tears in my eyes every time I heard Mark Lindsay sing, "Arizona". 'Bought a house, had two kids, and wondered if my dream would ever come true. And I followed the Suns.

In 1978, my wife and I called the moving van, loaded the kids in the station wagon, and came to Phoenix. Changed over to Arizona license plates a few days after we arrived. And have been here ever since.

The first game I saw at the Madhouse on McDowell was between the Knicks and the Suns. (Those wonderful Knicks who previously won championships with Clyde, Dollar Bill, Dave D, the great Willis Reed, and Dick Barnett, followed by Earl The Pearl Monroe. Plus Phil Jackson, etc.)

During the first half, how could I root against the Knicks. By the second half, I was.

My favorite Suns team featured Maurice Lucas (the NBA's prototype Power Foward), Larry Nancy (the first of the 6'10" Small Forwards), an all-star backcourt of Walter Davis (the only Sun who ever moved to a "lighter" position) and Dennis Johnson (the best defensive guard in the NBA).

With a solid low-post Center, that team could have started a dynasty. But coach John MacLeod couldn't get along with strong players, and DJ was given away for a 3rd-string Center, Rick Robey . . . Luke was cleared out . . . and the dynasty came apart. It broke my heart.

Years later, I'm still rooting for the Suns to capture their first NBA championship.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

back in grade school we had a gym instructor who was some part of suns' trainer team. he brought ronnie lee for a class. i was forever more a ronnie lee fan. great fro.

 

[Rats]

back in grade school we had a gym instructor who was some part of suns' trainer team. he brought ronnie lee for a class. i was forever more a ronnie lee fan. great fro.

Been a Suns fan since they played the Celtics in the Championship back in 77 or 78 or one of them years ( I don't want to look it up) Followed them heavily when Barkley came over from My other Team the Sixers....Walter Davis was the man....and...well I a HATE THE LAKERS!!!!

 

[PhxGametime]

Well it sucks, I can't read every post like I was starting finally getting back too (I have fluid in knee and DR said something is wrong with it ) it's been now almost 80 days and I just get uncomfortable sitting but I was dealing with it for awhile but the last 3-4 days have sucked. Oh well, enough about that - just wanted to mention it, as I did on EE board... if you're not seeing me post a lot


I have been a fan since 1st Grade, my best friend in school got me free tickets to games - his aunt worked with Suns. So that's what around 6? I'm 29 now .

Cardinals fan since their arrival, D'Backs since the beginning, Wildcats since 1988 (?) my dad never liked asu but I didn't really start watching their Basketball team until the Final Four year (whichever it was), and Mercury at first (then sort of became more addicted to Suns) and didn't really watch until Kayte Christensen was Drafted