OT: The Original OT Thread - Chit chat, Raiders, Rebels, etc.

Status
Not open for further replies.

HanSolo

DJ Crazy Times
Apr 7, 2008
96,449
30,715
Las Vegas
We should have a separate introduction thread. Like the Entertainment board and Lounge have. I'd make one and fill it out but I'm on mobile.

Maybe like same format as their intro threads.
 

sabresfan65

Vegas HAS Hockey!!
Sponsor
May 23, 2004
1,893
348
Vegas
Lived in Vegas for 9 years.
High School Science Teacher.

Originally from Western New York.

Sabres, Bills, Blue Jays and now Las Vegas ????'s
 

702

Registered User
Jun 6, 2016
364
0
Born and Raised - 27 years

Family from Cherry Hill area made me a Flyers (all Philly) fan growing up.

Flyers Eastern
Vegas Western
 

The Duck Knight

Henry, you're our only hope!
Feb 6, 2012
8,060
4,520
702
Lived here since I was 5 (1997)

Ducks are slowly losing my faith as the Lakers gain it back.

Finally have my own team in my city though. This is dream. :vhappy:
 

OldSchoolSabreFan

Old School Cool
Jul 5, 2014
26
0
702
Born: (585) Raised: (716)
I follow: RITMHKY; SABRES; LVBK; RAIDERS; BILLS; JAYS; ARSENALFC
HIST: USN:'80 | JCC:'84 | RIT:'87
"Driver of Trains" who moved to LV in 2011 after a long time bumping around WNY&FL.
A Cattaraugus county farm boy who followed the Sabres when they were Bisons.
All that I can say to Mr. Foley is "Please don't hire Darcy Regier!!!"
 

HanSolo

DJ Crazy Times
Apr 7, 2008
96,449
30,715
Las Vegas
Well I guess I'll go

Been in Vegas since 2006
Been a ducks/hockey fan since 1997
Originally from Rancho Palos Verdes California (close to long beach)
Excited to welcome my new 1b team
 

sa cyred

Running Data Models
Sep 11, 2007
20,844
3,113
SJ
So like some others dont live there but best friend and family do. Been there a few times also. Current east team is Flyers. Will be in for the long haul for Vegas in the west though! Already talking to people there and planning some trips and free places to stay!
 

BattleBorn

50% to winning as many division titles as Toronto
Feb 6, 2015
12,069
6,017
Bellevue, WA
We'll get a little more organized in the next few days, so there might be another of these threads here soon.

I'm from Chicagoland, fan of everything Chicago except the Sox (who are awful at everything) and now the Las Vegas hockey team.

I've been here for twenty years or so. Grew up with the Thunder, hit the Wranglers games as often as possible, and now a season ticket person for the NHL team.

Today is party day, so I hope everyone that's gone through their time in Vegas hoping for an NHL team takes a second or two to reflect. This is awesome, but it's just the beginning.
 

lvwranglersfan

Registered User
Jun 8, 2007
103
0
Las Vegas, NV
Born in England, moved to Silicon Valley when I was 6, grew up a fan of the Sharks. Moved to Vegas in 2001, 8 year Las Vegas Wrangler Season ticket holder, also involved in their booster club for most of those years, including the President in the final years. Now have a daughter than plays hockey in the Las Vegas Storm house league program, and plays travel hockey for the LA Lions. I also coach her Storm team.
 

WickedAxiom

LRossi
Dec 11, 2015
19
0
Australian, never been to Las Vegas, only Brisvegas (Brisbane) :) Attend Uni at U of Michigan. Have only attended 1 hockey game which was at Yost, so quite a hockey noob. Excited to begin anew with a brand new club. Somewhat supported the Rangers and Red Wings this past season before deciding to support Las Vegas. Going to pre-apologise for any ignorant questions or statements I make here. :)
 

BlueShirts702

Registered User
Mar 28, 2008
1,294
0
City of Sin
Been here since 1989!

Originally from New York so I grew up a Rangers fan. Now that we have a team in Vegas though, I finally have a team to root for besides the Blue Shirts.

It's something this city has wanted and needed for so long. I managed a Sports Book for 5 years and had some great conversations with not only tourists but local business leaders and just regular residents who put their money where their mouths were when it was time to pony up for the season tickets. I think it's pretty cool that we are all a part of that together and I have a feeling there will be many pints purchased in the near future as we all get set for our team to take the ice!
 

BlueShirts702

Registered User
Mar 28, 2008
1,294
0
City of Sin
Australian, never been to Las Vegas, only Brisvegas (Brisbane) :) Attend Uni at U of Michigan. Have only attended 1 hockey game which was at Yost, so quite a hockey noob. Excited to begin anew with a brand new club. Somewhat supported the Rangers and Red Wings this past season before deciding to support Las Vegas. Going to pre-apologise for any ignorant questions or statements I make here. :)



Happy to have you aboard, buddy!!
 

Ginormousthumbs

Registered User
Jul 7, 2013
6,665
3,869
West Side
Born in Ohio. Moved to Vegas in 1972(1 y/o). Stayed until I was 8 or 9. Used to live on Trop and Rainbow and that's about as far as Trop went. Moved away for a little bit but came back in 1994 for 4 years. After a short stint in So Cal, I moved back in 2004.
Have always been a Penguins fan, even during the dark times. Supported the Wranglers, especially during the lockout. While it sucked to see them go, I knew it was for the greater cause. Excited for this team and all of the possibilities.
 

segelrj

Registered User
Jun 22, 2016
33
0
Ohio via Las Vegas
Born and bred in Las Vegas
It was home from my birth in '87 until I moved to Ohio in '06

Played roller hockey at Crystal Palace and ice hockey at Santa Fe and at the old tennis center that they made into an ice rink for about a year or two by UNLV. One of my teammates in roller and ice for the longest time was Chris Francis, who until Zucker, was pretty much the most successful hockey player from home. My dad and I were Thunder season ticket holders from '93 until they ceased operations in '99 and were Wranglers season ticket holders from '03 until I moved in '06.

Like 702, my original NHL affiliations were based on familiar ties, as my maternal family have been based in the Boston area since they came to America, so I was a big Bruins fan, but now they're going to be my #2.

As an avid sports fan from the area, I always dreamed like I day like this would come, I just never believed it would. You have no idea how happy this made me today, I was damn near in tears while I was watching the press conference :laugh:
 

Jimmy Firecracker

Fire Sheldon.
Mar 30, 2010
35,560
34,108
Mississauga
Hey guys, outsider here. I was wondering what the local sports culture is like down in Vegas. I find Vegas to be unique in that there's no definitive major league team you think of when thinking about the city, with the NHL's Aces/Knights/Whatever being the first. Many cities you go to you've got the teams, the fans, the stadiums, and a history of supporting a team. If the NHL were expanding to a place like Seattle or Houston for example, you'd have Seahawks, Texans, Mariners, Astros, etc fans already with the sports mentality and loyalty to their city, and this forum would be abuzz with fans from those different sports. Maybe even some early trash talk with Vancouver or Dallas. ;)

It'll in seeing how the sports culture in Vegas grows, especially if the Oakland Raiders move to the city. It'll be interesting to see the growth of Vegas over the next generation. 25 years from now you'll have guys reminiscing about the old times and sharing memories about their favourite childhood players, reminiscing about times from the T-Mobile Arena (TMA for short eventually?).
 

HanSolo

DJ Crazy Times
Apr 7, 2008
96,449
30,715
Las Vegas
Hey guys, outsider here. I was wondering what the local sports culture is like down in Vegas. I find Vegas to be unique in that there's no definitive major league team you think of when thinking about the city, with the NHL's Aces/Knights/Whatever being the first. Many cities you go to you've got the teams, the fans, the stadiums, and a history of supporting a team. If the NHL were expanding to a place like Seattle or Houston for example, you'd have Seahawks, Texans, Mariners, Astros, etc fans already with the sports mentality and loyalty to their city, and this forum would be abuzz with fans from those different sports. Maybe even some early trash talk with Vancouver or Dallas. ;)

It'll in seeing how the sports culture in Vegas grows, especially if the Oakland Raiders move to the city. It'll be interesting to see the growth of Vegas over the next generation. 25 years from now you'll have guys reminiscing about the old times and sharing memories about their favourite childhood players, reminiscing about times from the T-Mobile Arena (TMA for short eventually?).

Right now the culture is either A.) reminiscing about the Tarkanian era UNLV basketball team b.) a smattering of fans from all over the country of different sports, waiting eagerly for a team to call our own.

This is undoubtedly a sports city. We just haven't had a pro sports team. That changed today
 

segelrj

Registered User
Jun 22, 2016
33
0
Ohio via Las Vegas
Right now the culture is either A.) reminiscing about the Tarkanian era UNLV basketball team b.) a smattering of fans from all over the country of different sports, waiting eagerly for a team to call our own.

This is undoubtedly a sports city. We just haven't had a pro sports team. That changed today

DuckJet hit it 100% on the head. The majority of sports fans in town that root on any local team is pretty much UNLV men's basketball and that's mostly because we grew up during the Tark years and it was our one team that was ours. Although the Bano, Spoonhour, and Kruger (especially the Kruger, we miss him so much) years were pretty good, nothing compares to how much we loved our Tark-era Rebs.

Now in minor league sports, we (as in the majority of the city) cared a lot, only when they were winning: late 80s Las Vegas Stars (now 51s baseball), indoor soccer for one year (bc the Dustdevils won the CISL title in '94 {last professional sports title the city has won}), Thunder in the early 90s and Wranglers in the late 2000s.

We've never really had a team to call our own and most fans, transplants and natives alike, have pretty much never really had allegiances to any particular team. We base our allegiances on where our families are originally from, whom our favorite players are, etc. We have the ability to watch any team, from any part of the US and Canada, at anytime we want, so we can pick and choose to be fans of different cities in different sports, regardless of those cities are rivals (like being a NY Rangers fan and being a Boston Red Sox fan). Now with this team, everything changes, transplants will have a team that they can support 95% of the time and people who are born in LV, whether they live there currently or moved away, will have a franchise that they can tie themselves to bc it is a representation of our community. This team is finally something that we can claim as our own, when we've been so used to claiming a piece of another city.
 

HanSolo

DJ Crazy Times
Apr 7, 2008
96,449
30,715
Las Vegas
I know right? I was worried we'd have to wait a few months or something.

We couldn't celebrate in the Business of Hockey thread without people raining on our parade with the usual "this will surely be a failure" posts.
 

HanSolo

DJ Crazy Times
Apr 7, 2008
96,449
30,715
Las Vegas
DuckJet hit it 100% on the head. The majority of sports fans in town that root on any local team is pretty much UNLV men's basketball and that's mostly because we grew up during the Tark years and it was our one team that was ours. Although the Bano, Spoonhour, and Kruger (especially the Kruger, we miss him so much) years were pretty good, nothing compares to how much we loved our Tark-era Rebs.

Now in minor league sports, we (as in the majority of the city) cared a lot, only when they were winning: late 80s Las Vegas Stars (now 51s baseball), indoor soccer for one year (bc the Dustdevils won the CISL title in '94 {last professional sports title the city has won}), Thunder in the early 90s and Wranglers in the late 2000s.

We've never really had a team to call our own and most fans, transplants and natives alike, have pretty much never really had allegiances to any particular team. We base our allegiances on where our families are originally from, whom our favorite players are, etc. We have the ability to watch any team, from any part of the US and Canada, at anytime we want, so we can pick and choose to be fans of different cities in different sports, regardless of those cities are rivals (like being a NY Rangers fan and being a Boston Red Sox fan). Now with this team, everything changes, transplants will have a team that they can support 95% of the time and people who are born in LV, whether they live there currently or moved away, will have a franchise that they can tie themselves to bc it is a representation of our community. This team is finally something that we can claim as our own, when we've been so used to claiming a piece of another city.

I think the biggest part for me, is having a professional sports team here in Las Vegas makes me feel not only that I have something I can claim as my own, but it makes me feel like I've got something to identify with in my city beyond being a tourist destination. All the best things about this town are basically tourist destinations. To the point that growing up, I would go to movie theaters, bowling alleys, and arcades inside of casinos. I've never felt something that connects me to this city as a local destination other than being able to talk to other Las Vegas natives about how terrible drivers are here.

I would prefer that Las Vegas NHL remains for a long long time, but this has the potential to usher in other pro sports teams. And if the Vegas NHL team weren't able to compete and would have to move or fold, at least it brought in other pro sports teams that allow the locals of this city to have an identity to rally around. A lot of people are surprisingly shocked to learn that outside of the Strip and the off strip casinos (and slot machines in gas stations and grocery stores) Las Vegas is a city like any other, with residents like any other. But sometimes it kind of does feel like we are just an auxiliary to the grander Las Vegas tourist machine. We now have a team that is ours that we can share with the tourists. Just like the tourists share the strip with us.
 

jwhitesj

Registered User
Oct 9, 2006
3,314
2
Downtown San Jose
I know right? I was worried we'd have to wait a few months or something.

We couldn't celebrate in the Business of Hockey thread without people raining on our parade with the usual "this will surely be a failure" posts.

I'm a Sharks fan from San Jose. But I love Las Vegas, and consider it my home away from home. I'm still currently living in San Jose. I don't know why people would think this would be a failure. I remember a post form a disgruntled Atlanta Thrashers fan that said "If it won't work in Atlanta, why would it work in Vegas." I think Vegas will be a very successful franchise and I'm looking forward to going to the first Sharks vs. Las Vegas game.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Ad

Upcoming events

Ad

Ad

-->