How I became a Blues Fan living in Canada

The blues could have used 5 more easy wins this year. Jerks.

I always like hearing these from folks — inside St. Louis, outside St. Louis, outside the United States.

And awesome.

and rec’d like Cory Lidle’s plane

Great story. Forced into Blues fandom because of a Boston luvin stepfather

Bishop
You’ll have to join in the GDT later.
The more to commiserate the better

Great story. Hope to see you around here again.

a lot of fans begin in a similar way…. glad to have you aboard.

to be able to meet and talk with other Blues fan. In the olden days we had the newspaper and TV if the game was televised. Blues fans had no way to talk amongst themselves except for work, school, the bar or at the game. Occasionally there would be a piece in the fish wrap about a Blues fan outside STL but it was rare. You also didn’t meet a whole lot of out of towners at a home game like at a Redbird game.

Once in a blue moon you would see a comment in Sports Illustrated or Hockey News from a Blues fan on an article about the Blues so you knew there were more fans out there. Then in the early 90s CompuServe offered dial up service that included access to hundreds of moderated forums where you could talk hockey. The forums (BBS or boards as we knew them) were all text, no pics or video, just plain vanilla compared to today’s wild wild web. It was so kewl to be able to talk to other Blues fans around the world.

All was good when one fine day AOL was allowed into USENET and the interwebz almost collapsed from all the goofs allowed to log on. The flame wars and punting idiots out of chat rooms began The end was near when thankfully other ISPs popped up to draw those AOL users away from the dark side.

Fast forward to today and we have SLGT.