Never had a choice... Dad raised me on it

Posted by SupremeCommander:

Never had a choice... Dad raised me on it

LOL, my kid is 11 months. That is sort of how i feel with him and the knicks. He doesn't know it yet, but he doesn't have a choice.

When I was a kid back in the early to mid-'70s, I would watch the Friday night Knick games with my dad and brothers in my parents' room, on his 12-inch black-and-white. The games were on Channel 9, Marv Albert was the play-by-play guy and the team had Frazier, Bradley, DeBusschere, Reed, Monroe, Jax, etc. Then as I got older, I really got hooked with the Hubie Brown-coached teams, particularly the 1983-84 team that beat the Pistons in a classic five-game first-round series (first-round series were best-of-five then; in fact, I think that was the first year of the best-of-five format, having switched from best-of-three).

Anyway, that Game 5 at Detroit's Joe Louis Arena was maybe the best NBA game I've ever seen. I believe it was double OT, and Isiah went off in the seocnd half and singlehandedly kept the Pistons alive. I think Bernard King had to be helped off the court at the end because he was exhausted. It was so freakin' hot in that arena.

Then we took the Celtics to 7 games in the second round. That Friday night Game 6 at the Garden was one of the best NY sporting events I've ever been to. The crowd was so electric all night. And Dancing Harry was even there.

When I finally was able to afford it, I bought season tix before the 1992-93 season and had them for 8 years.

Good times.

i would play outside with my friends, mainly street games (spud, chinese handball/boxes, running bases, wiffle ball, etc) and stickball/baseball/football. never basketball - we just never played since we can't have a basket on the street.

then cable came to elmhurst, queens in 1987.

i always wanted the MSG channel b/c they showed the wwf house shows back then. one night i flipped there and a knicks game was on. my first memory is watching gerald wilkins hit a three from the baseline. i started watching more and more and i liked it alot.

that's how i became a knicks fan...by getting cable and turning the channel to MSG one night.

the more intriguing thread question is "are you still a knicks fan?"...

[Edited by - djsunyc on 07-10-2008 1:22 PM]

Posted by misterearl:

"are you still a knicks fan?"...

djsu - you're kidding right?

Tony: "Once you're in da family, there's no gettin' out"

DJ is the one that got away... someone remind me what the mob does to the ones that get away?