How long have you been a fan?
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Hitman
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Since they were the New Orleans Jazz - the year of Spencer Haywood, Rich Kelley, Jim McElroy, Gail Goodrich and of course the late great Pete Maravich, which I think was their last season before moving to Utah. Since the interwebs were not yet invented, initially I only knew the names of the players and their stats from playing Statis Pro Basketball. A few years later, I discovered I could the get scores a day or so late by going to the State Library newspaper room where they had copies of the International Herald Tribune. Eventually we started to get one NBA game a week on TV (first tape-delay, then live) and if I was lucky I got to watch them once a season. These days, I can watch every game live on NBA League Pass.
Now you kids get off my lawn!
Now you kids get off my lawn!
I went to the very first Jazz game in SLC. Jazz got torched but I was just so happy to have a professional sports team in Utah. Ticket prices were cheap even though I was a poor college student. I had interest in the Jazz from N.O. because of Pete Maravich and Truck Robinson. I wasn't a fan of the Jazz in New Orleans but I always rooted for those two guys so my "connection" with the Jazz started in New Orleans.
I know the reason why the "Jazz" kept their name as "Jazz" even when moving to the nosebleed section of the NBA from the swamps. Utah has no "jazz" tradition, and it totally doesn't fit with "Mormonism" or the stolid people of Utah who can't dance, or jump.
But it gave us a connection to our real favorite team back then, the Starzz, or something like that. The Utah Stars had a great player named Malone, and for that reason alone the Jazz management just had to pick up some kid with the same name.
My brother-in-law was part of the corporate staff of the Jazz from the gitgo. And I even remember listening to the Jazz games on the radio because my bil didn't even know where I lived in the ghetto, let alone like me enough to haul me down to the games and let me in for free. I thought we had it made when Adrian Dantley came to town.
When I 6 or 7 I played on my first rec league team and our we were the Utah Jazz (every team was a different pro team). I always loved playing basketball because I was by far the tallest kid in elementary school through middle school, until everyone caught up to me in HS. The year I started was the 1st year the Jazz went to the Finals, so they were on TV for the playoffs a lot and I vaguely remember watching them. Though my "contrarian" attitude, I started liking the Jazz even more because everyone around me either like the Bulls or the Rockets, so my love grew for them.
I always kept tabs on the Jazz and watched games when I could. Then the Jazz got Dwill and my fandom regained steam and I started watching every single Jazz game through streaming sites. Now I'm here and I post way too much on Jazzfanz.
I always kept tabs on the Jazz and watched games when I could. Then the Jazz got Dwill and my fandom regained steam and I started watching every single Jazz game through streaming sites. Now I'm here and I post way too much on Jazzfanz.
I grew in DC area. Was only very slightly ever a Bullets/Wizards fan, though. In fact I liked college hoops much more than the NBA. Came to Utah during the Stockton/Malone/Sloan days, and they won me over. Started watching games in ~1991, and have been a serious fan ever since even though I moved away from Utah in 1994. (Moved back 5 years ago.) For most of the late 1990s/early 2000s I actually listened to an internet feed for a radio station out of Delta Utah for all of the games that weren't on national TV.
d@!!0n0rcutt
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since 1990