Get to Know Your Fellow Canes Fans - PART II

Incubajerks

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Feb 9, 2010
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Roma
Name: Luca
Age: 31
Sex: Male
Where You're From: Roma, Italy
Where You Live Now: Roma, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Hair Color: Dark/Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Mode of Transportation: Car/Scooter
Job: Bank Clerk
What brought you to HF Boards: Google
How you became a hockey fan: Playing Nhl 94 with the Whalers
How you became a Canes fan: just being a whalers fan
Favorite thing about being a Canes fan: having the most special team in the nhl
Favorite Cane's Player(s): Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuu and Jussi
Favorite NON Cane's Player(s): Parise
Other Sports You Like: Soccer
Other Sports Teams You Cheer For: Fiorentina
Video Game Systems Owned: none, only pc
Favorite Game(s): Football Manager
Music You Listen To: Clash, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins and many others
Favorite Movie(s): Breakfast Club
Favorite Food(s): Pasta/Risotto coi funghi porcini
 
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tarheelhockey

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Feb 12, 2010
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Name: Thomas
Age: 28
Sex: Male
Where You're From: Charlotte
Where You Live Now: Cary
Nationality: Southern ;)
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Mode of Transportation: Minivan with a baby seat
Job: Raise funds for UNC
What brought you to HF Boards: Critical mass of Canes fans
How you became a hockey fan: It took 1 ECHL game to hook me permanently.
How you became a Canes fan: Long story... seeing as how I cut my teeth with the Checkers, and they were the Bruins affiliate at the time, I was a hardcore Bruins fan for a log time. With the Checkers finally becoming the Canes affiliate I finally feel like I can accept the Canes without it being "wrong" as a fan.
Favorite thing about being a Canes fan: They prove that hockey works below the Mason-Dixon line... and that, in fact, a southern hockey team can have its own unique culture. I REALLY dig that.
Favorite Cane's Player(s): Aaron Ward. Remember, I am still in transition here.
Favorite NON Cane's Player(s): All time, Ray Bourque. Today, Milan Lucic.
Other Sports You Like: Pro football, college basketball.
Other Sports Teams You Cheer For: Carolina Panthers, UNC Tar Heels, Atlanta Braves.
College Attended/Attending: Sewanee. However I work at UNC if that counts.
Video Game Systems Owned: Xbox, Wii.
Favorite Game(s): NHL '09. I am embarrassed to say how many seasons :)
Music You Listen To: Many shades of rock.
Favorite Movie(s): The Big Lebowski. Agin, I am embarrassed to say how many copies I own :)
Favorite Book(s): A baby makes grownup books impossible. I read magazines instead, usually the New Yorker or the Oxford American.
Favorite Food(s): Southern cuisine, Mexican, and I am a tourist for anything I've never had before.
Favorite TV Show(s): Arrested Development, and the many many shows that remind me of it. Hockey of course.
Hockey Jerseys In Wardrobe: Ray Bourque late 90s white. Brind'Amour current red. Red Wings red. Rangers blue. Original Checkers black. Checkers circa 2000, one blue and one white. Mid-90s Western Conference All Stars.
Anything Else: I am in the process launching a blog called tarheelhockey.com, though it is not up just yet as I am still working on the design. I wrote a fairly successful Bruins blog for a while and am looking forward to the new project.
 
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GIN ANTONIC

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Aug 19, 2007
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Name: Tyler
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Where You're From: Toronto
Where You Live Now: Toronto
Nationality: Canadain (1/4 British, 1/4 Chinese, 1/4 West Indian, 1/4 Jewish Ukrainian)
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Mode of Transportation: 2003 Hybrid Honda Civic
Job: Teacher/Musician
What brought you to HF Boards: teh internetz (google search for hockey forums)
How you became a hockey fan: See nationality, started playing when I was 7
How you became a Canes fan: Hadn't decided on a team yet. Thank god I didn't follow all my Leafs friends. Liked the logo. Just felt right.
Favorite thing about being a Canes fan: Been a fan since day one! Can never be accused of being a bandwagoner. Not being a fan of a Canadian team!
Favorite Cane's Player(s): Franicis, Primeau, Irbe, O'Neill,Brind'amour, Gleason, Ruutu, Pitkanen, Staal, Ward
Favorite NON Cane's Player(s): Modano, Selanne, Bondra, Leetch,
Other Sports You Like: Baseball, Football, Soccer, Tennis, Poker
Other Sports Teams You Cheer For: Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Vikings
College Attended/Attending: McGill Universty, Montréal
Video Game Systems Owned: PS3, Wii
Favorite Game(s): NHL, Halo, Mario Kart, Borderlands, MLB, Street Fighter
Music You Listen To: Jazz, Rock, Funk, Hip-Hop, R & B, Folk, Classical
Favorite Movie(s): The Deer Hunter, Big Lebowski, Fargo, Coen Bros, Knocked Up, 40 Year Old Virgin, Superbad, Rogen/Apatow, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Bill Murray/Harold Ramis/Ivan Reitman
Favorite Book(s): Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, Catch-22, A Confederacy of Dunces, Catcher in the Rye, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Favorite Food(s): Anything but pineapple
Favorite TV Show(s): The Simpsons, Seinfeld, King of Queens, Arrested Development, Community, The Office, Extras,
Hockey Jerseys In Wardrobe: 2 Canes red home jersey (no name), 1 Canes white jersey with 13 and my last name on it
Anything Else: GIT 'ER DUN!
 
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AntonFromAppState

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Jan 18, 2007
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North Carolina
Oh yea since shes too ashamed to say it ASUHockeychick would be my girlfriend.

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This is her and I during the playoffs. My hair is actually down to my shoulders now.
 

Mullets

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Feb 17, 2010
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Hi everyone after a long time of lurking I finally decided to join! :)


Name: Jenna
Age: 19
Sex: Yes
Where You're From: Raleigh
Where You Live Now: Raleigh
Nationality: American
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Green
Mode of Transportation: 2007 Accord
Job: Hooters Girl
What brought you to HF Boards: Google search about the Staal bachelor party gone wrong. I’ve been a lurker for a long time.
How you became a hockey fan: My dad told me it was like figure skating but cooler.
How you became a Canes fan: An unhealthy obession with Jeff O’Neill.
Favorite thing about being a Canes fan: Ric Flair.
Favorite Cane's Player(s): Staal, Ruutu, Joanna, Gleason, Jussi, Anson Carter!!!11
Favorite NON Cane's Player(s) The Staals, Ryan Kesler, Ryan Miller, Evgeni Malkin, Henrik Lundqvist.
Other Sports You Like: Football, Basketball.
Other Sports Teams You Cheer For: Carolina Panthers, Duke Blue Devils, Phoniex Suns.
College Attended/Attending: NCSU.
Video Game Systems Owned: Not that cool.
Favorite Game(s): I play a lot of brickbreaker some might say it's an addiction.
Music You Listen To: Kings of Leon. My absolute favorite however is the always epic Tye Banks.
Favorite Movie(s): The Royal Tenenbaums, Borat, The Hangover, The Departed, Scarface.
Favorite Book(s): The Giver.
Favorite Food(s): Nutella.
Favorite TV Show(s): Eastbound and Down, Psych, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Arrested Development, House.
Hockey Jerseys In Wardrobe: I hate long sleeves therefore I dislike jerseys. I own a bunch of equally awesome t-shirts instead.
Anything Else: Helsinki!
 
Jul 26, 2007
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Guess I ought to do this!

Name: Andrew
Age: 28
Sex: Male
Where You're From: Bromley, England
Where You Live Now: Albany, New York
Nationality: 3/4 English, 1/4 Scottish
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Grey
Mode of Transportation: CDTA buses...
Job: Lackey at Sears.
What brought you to HF Boards: Was looking for a hockey board, found one...!
How you became a hockey fan: Blades of Steel on the NES - anyone remember that?
How you became a Canes fan: Watching so many players from the Rats make the step up... makes you proud!
Favorite thing about being a Canes fan: Another poke in the eye to Canadian hockey nationalists, and other fans who are pretty awesome.
Favorite Cane's Player(s): Dwyer, Sutter, Boychuk...
Favorite NON Cane's Player(s): Meh, I follow teams rather than players.
Other Sports You Like: Football (the round ball kind)
Other Sports Teams You Cheer For: Albany River Rats (for now of course..), Millwall FC...
College Attended/Attending: I wish..
Video Game Systems Owned: PS2, this thing.
Favorite Game(s): EHM, FM10, that sort of thing.
Music You Listen To: Alt stuff, mostly older though.
Favorite Movie(s): Shawshank maybe? Not sure I have a favourite.
Favorite Book(s): I don't read like I should...
Favorite Food(s): Anything bad for me.
Favorite TV Show(s): The only TV I watch is sports.
Hockey Jerseys In Wardrobe: More than I can count... at least 20.
 

possum

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Mar 10, 2010
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I'm new here. Glad to have finally gotten an ID & look forward to participating.

Name: Matt (I also frequently answer to and refer to myself as possum)
Age: 31
Sex: M
Where You're From: Charlotte
Where You Live Now: Concord NC (really close to CLT)
Nationality: USA
Hair Color: brown
Eye Color: bluish
Mode of Transportation: in reality an 09 Altima, in my mind I still drive my 00 Xterra
Job: PC Monkey at a ridiculously large corporation
What brought you to HF Boards: Charlotte's affiliation with the Canes & PuckDaddy's constant references to HFBoards
How you became a hockey fan: 1994: NYR breaks the curse; 1996: USA beats Canada in World Cup and the Checkers won the Riley Cup
How you became a Canes fan: I'm a proud native of North Carolina
Favorite thing about being a Canes fan: telling people from traditional hockey markets who I pull for
Favorite Cane's Player(s): The Wizard and Wardo
Favorite NON Cane's Player(s): Niklas Backstrom. The goalie.
Other Sports You Like: baseball, NCAA football
Other Sports Teams You Cheer For: Charlotte Checkers, The Atlanta Braves and any of their affiliates, Washington Redskins, VT Hokies, Charlotte 49ers
College Attended/Attending: the school formerly known as UNCC (I like how this says "attended" instead of "graduated")
Video Game Systems Owned: Wii, two of them (can't have the step daughters taking my time)
Favorite Game(s): I took like five yrs off of gaming and have only recently got back on the Wii. I enjoy Super Mario Whatever, the LEGO series, & Madhouse
Music You Listen To: Pink Floyd, Outkast, Ben Folds, Weezer, Foo Fighters & a whole lot more
Favorite Movie(s): The Big Lebowski, Star Wars all, Kubrick, all horror (especially classics), Indie films
Favorite Book(s): Internet, sports history books
Favorite Food(s): Beer. Pork. Also anything but eggs, bananas & mushrooms
Favorite TV Show(s): Seinfeld, The Office, 30 Rock, The Simpsons, Trailer Park Boys, learning channels & junk
Hockey Jerseys In Wardrobe: My jerseys have their own wardrobe. No, seriously. PM/email me if you want to buy anything on the For Sale tab.
Anything Else: Road Trips: previously to see live music & currently for hockey & minor league baseball, 3 months from being a non-step dad, long walks on the beach & being totally awesome.
 
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w e l o s t b o y s

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Nov 21, 2009
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London
Name: Mike Stewart
Age: 19
Sex: Male
Where You're From: London Ontario
Where You Live Now: London Ontario
Nationality: Canadian/Finnish
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Green
Mode of Transportation: Peugeot UO-8 Roadbike
Job: Student
What brought you to HF Boards: Google
How you became a hockey fan: Canada
How you became a Canes fan: Ron Francis
Favorite thing about being a Canes fan:
Favorite Cane's Player(s): Ron Francis
Favorite NON Cane's Player(s): Jeff Carter
Other Sports You Like: Baseball, Soccer, Football.
Other Sports Teams You Cheer For: Bluejays, Knights, Liverpool, Vikings
College Attended/Attending: Fanshawe
Video Game Systems Owned: Xbox 360
Favorite Game(s): NHL09, CoD, Borderlands
Music You Listen To: Almost anything, not Country.
Favorite Movie(s): The Departed, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, HARRY POTTER!
Favorite Book(s): Harry Potter, The Diamond Age,
Favorite Food(s): Wings, Artichoke/Spinach Dip
Favorite TV Show(s): Futurama, HockeyCentral@Noon, The Office
Hockey Jerseys In Wardrobe: Just a few. I've got a youth size Canes jersey from when I was 8, a current home Knights jersey, and an away Knights jersey from 05.
Anything Else: typing time is over.
 
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Hey everyone, new poster here. I've been looking at these boards for probably about a year now, but haven't really wanted to make an account until now. I currently live outside of Raleigh, and dont attend many games, but I try to watch them all. I have been a Canes fan all my life (I'm almost 18) and started to really follow hockey a lot more closesly at the beginning of the 05-06 season. I dont really like many other NHL teams but for other sports may favorites are the Carolina Panthers and NCSU Wolfpack. I don't really like baseball or the NBA that much, and while I enjoy soccer a lot I don't really have a favorite team other than cheering for the US.
 

The One Who Knocks

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Jul 10, 2007
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Name: Zach

Age: 18

Sex: M

Where You're From: Born in Alconbury, England

Where You Live Now: Folsom, CA

Nationality: Indian, French, Danish, Venezuelan

Hair Color: black

Eye Color: brown

Mode of Transportation: 08 Toyota Yaris sedan

Job: unemployed

What brought you to HF Boards: Surfing the internet looking for a good hockey forum

How you became a hockey fan: Dad took me to a Canes game back in 1997, and I've been hooked ever since

How you became a Canes fan: ^^^

Favorite thing about being a Canes fan: Being able to cheer for one of the wildest, most entertaining teams in the league

Favorite Cane's Player(s): Staal or Jokinen, but everyone on the team is awesome

Favorite NON Cane's Player(s): Ovechkin, Keith, Gagne, Doan, Thornton, Pavelski

Other Sports You Like: NFL

Other Sports Teams You Cheer For: San Jose Sharks, Carolina Panthers, Indianapolis Colts

College Attended/Attending: Start my freshman year at UC Davis this fall

Video Game Systems Owned: Xbox, Xbox 360, N64

Favorite Game(s): Halo trilogy, Left 4 Dead 2, NHL series, Super Mario 64, GTA series, Mario Kart, Bomberman 64

Music You Listen To: Progressive/Technical Metal, hardcore, reggae/ska, dub, underground rap, experimental, deathcore. Basically, I like some of everything other than country

Favorite Movie(s): 28 Days Later, Friday Night Lights, Saving Private Ryan, Donnie Darko, 30 Days of Night, Romero zombie films, Superbad, American Psycho, Dark Knight, Forrest Gump

Favorite Book(s): meh

Favorite Food(s): Indian cuisine, Thai cuisine, Greek cuisine, burgers, buffalo wings

Favorite TV Show(s): South Park, Wipeout, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Breaking Bad

Hockey Jerseys In Wardrobe: Many jerseys that I'm too tired to list
 

geehaad

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So Zach, what's the message with your avatar? I've always wondered what it is all about...did John fail at something that I'm not aware of, or are you just not a Forslund fan?
 

AhoLottaLove

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Jun 30, 2010
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Name: Josh
Age: 22
Sex:M
Where You're From: Raleigh
Where You Live Now: Raleigh
Nationality: Scottish/NA
Hair Color: brown
Eye Color: blue
Mode of Transportation: 95 GMC Sonoma
Job: Concessions at the RBC Center!
What brought you to HF Boards: ESPN boards were terrible. Too many flamers. So I found this place.
How you became a hockey fan: Got free tickets to a game during the Canes' first year at the ESA. I've been hooked since then.
How you became a Canes fan: See above.
Favorite thing about being a Canes fan: Watching and discussing the games. Playoffs!!!
Favorite Cane's Player(s): Gleason, Ward, Jokinen
Favorite NON Cane's Player(s): R Miller (olympic hero), Whitney :(, OV
Other Sports You Like: Football
Other Sports Teams You Cheer For: NC State football
College Attended/Attending: I'm a senior at NCSU.
Video Game Systems Owned: Xbox 360
Favorite Game(s): Halo 3, NHL 10
Music You Listen To: U2, The Killers, Matisyahu, Matthew Ryan
Favorite Movie(s): Gran Torino, Goodfellas, The Aviator
Favorite Book(s):The Road, The Dark Tower series
Favorite Food(s): Spaghetti
Favorite TV Show(s): Pawn Stars, Sons of Anarchy
Hockey Jerseys In Wardrobe: 0 :( inadequate funding
Anything Else: :yo:
 

cptjeff

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Sep 18, 2008
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So Zach, what's the message with your avatar? I've always wondered what it is all about...did John fail at something that I'm not aware of, or are you just not a Forslund fan?

It's an old playoff avatar from 2008. In the middle of that season, we were watching the Canes suck, a few of us posted fail images in the GDT, and the canes wound up winning somehow. After that, it became the running theme of GDTs, eventually narrowing into failboats specifically, and when we made the playoffs those avatars carried us to the conference finals. Each one had a different Canes related person (or icehog, mine was stormy), and a failboat.
 

AMOK14

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Jul 20, 2010
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Ottawa, ON
Name: Mike
Age: 37
Sex: I think you can guess
Where You're From: Gatineau, Qc, Canada
Where You Live Now: same as above
Nationality:
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Mode of Transportation: Dodge Calber + public transport
Job: Work for the Feds
What brought you to HF Boards: The 'Canes
How you became a hockey fan: I'm from canada...enough said
How you became a Canes fan: Started back in the 80's as a Whalers fan...been loyal ever since!!!
Favorite thing about being a Canes fan: Bragging that my team won a cup!
Favorite Cane's Player(s): Wardo, Staal
Favorite NON Cane's Player(s): Toews, Richards
Other Sports You Like: UFC
Other Sports Teams You Cheer For: NONE!
College Attended/Attending: n/a
Video Game Systems Owned: PS3
Favorite Game(s): EA/NHL, Red Dead Redemption
Music You Listen To: Alt, heavy, punk, etc...
Hockey Jerseys In Wardrobe: Staal authentic home jersey, replica 'Canes away jersey and home jersey (will get the home jersey lettered and numbered with #17!)
 

PuckNomad

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Sep 14, 2007
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Name: Paige
Age: 28
Sex: female
Where You're From: New York
Where You Live Now: Winston-Salem/LA/San Jose/NYC
Nationality: German
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue ... I'm also 5'6 120lbs...I feel like I'm filling out a personal add or something LOL
Mode of Transportation: 2009 Lexus RX350
Job: Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), Music
What brought you to HF Boards: General love of hockey
How you became a hockey fan: I've played since I was 4.
How you became a Canes fan: Temporarily living in NC
Favorite Cane's Player(s): Jeff O'Neill
Favorite NON Cane's Player(s): All time, Jeremy Roenick, Luc Robitaille, Doug Gilmour, Joe Sakic Today, Vincent LeCavalier, Sidney Crosby, Saku Koivu
Other Sports You Like: MMA, Baseball, football, basketball
Other Sports Teams You Cheer For: YANKEES! Duke, Golden State Warriors, NY Giants
College Attended/Attending: Colorado State University
Video Game Systems Owned: Wii, PS3
Favorite Game(s): Call of Duty, FIFA
Music You Listen To: Anything but country. All time favorite: Dave Matthews Band Current: Drake
Favorite Movie(s): Shawshank Redemption, Almost Famous, Invictus
Favorite Book(s): Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Favorite Food(s): Buffalo Wings, Anything Italian
Favorite TV Show(s): Always Sunny in Philadelphia, One Tree Hill
Hockey Jerseys In Wardrobe: About 100...only ones I still wear are Crosby signed Winter Classic, S. Koivu signed Team Finland, Roenick signed Sharks
Anything Else: I'm not a fan of any specific team per say, I'm a fan of the game. I've played my entire life, been to about 22 of the 30 arenas, been to game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, Championship game of the World Cup of Hockey etc. I get behind players, not teams but I support the team where I'm currently living (which changes by the week).
 

HisIceness

This is Hurricanes Hockey
Sep 16, 2010
40,106
70,023
Charlotte
Hello fellow Cane fans.......

Name: HisIceness;)

Age: 22

Sex: Yes:naughty:, oh sorry, Male

Where You're From: Durham

Where You Live Now: Charlotte, finally home to the baby 'Canes:yo:

Nationality: American

Hair Color: Brown, but if I shaved my head would I have a hair color?

Eye Color: Blue

Mode of Transportation: Ford Taurus

Job: Stuff and Things, ya know

What brought you to HF Boards: Been a lurker for about a year, found it through google

How you became a hockey fan: Going to Raleigh Icecap and Checker games

How you became a Canes fan: '99 Playoffs got me interested.

Favorite thing about being a Canes fan: Tailgating, being the only major league team in the Triangle, 2002, 2006, 2009, pissing off so-called traditional hockey fans when we win, a lot of female fans:nod:

Favorite Cane's Player(s): I root for them all, but Cam Ward for I was once a goaltender for my street hockey team.

Favorite NON Cane's Player(s): Rick Nash, Shane Doan, Brad Richards, Steven Stamkos, Marty Turco

Other Sports You Like: Basketball, Baseball, Football, Track and Field events

Other Sports Teams You Cheer For: Atlanta Braves, NCSU(all sports), Dallas Cowboys(I can hear the boos already), Carolina Panthers and other NFL teams with NCSU players on them, Charlotte Bobcats.

College Attended/Attending: School of Easy Times

Video Game Systems Owned: PS2

Favorite Game(s): EA Sports NHL whatever year

Music You Listen To: Almost everything except Disney/boy/girl Pop, emo-punk pop, and mainstream rap. Love 90's music especially:yo:

Favorite Movie(s): Too many to name, but I watch Miracle a lot

Favorite Book(s): Chronicles of Narnia, Bible, Boys of Winter

Favorite Food(s): Chicken, BBQ, Shrimp,

Favorite TV Show(s): King of the Hill, Whose line is it anyway, Simpsons(when they were at their prime), Hells Kitchen

Hockey Jerseys In Wardrobe: Red Cam Ward, and thats it.

Anything Else: My username is in reference to Michal Jordan. I was gonna call myself CaniacInCharlotte, but thought that sounded boring.
 
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