At 40, I've been a Habs fan all my life.
Living in QC, even when I was 12, my whole class were rooting for the Nords except me. When I was even younger, the Nords beat the Habs when Stastny scored that OT goal and the teacher stopped the whole day of class to celebrate it. And he kept making us hear the recording over and over. I should have been mad but really it was a day free of class and there was a good-natured ribbing between me and the teacher. Even if I was the only Habs fan, I was his favorite student cause I was the one that knew about hockey so much and we were always talking about it, arguing about it.
But even after all this, I'm seriously considering switching if the Nords come back. I cannot quite explain it, it's gonna be sort of like the feeling of a revolution. Like a serious enthousiatic jolt to the people of this city and a source of pride. If my old teacher would me now...
Well damn, I guess I should have written this in a Blog somewhere.