So many sports traditions have been begun by Vancouver fans...

[HEyHEY]

The wave, was started by Vancouver Whitecaps fans (though fucking assbag Seattle Seahawks commentors say it was seahwaks fans).
All them white towels you see waving at sports games... where started by Vancouver Canuck fans.... see in 1982 Vancouver was in a Playoff series against Chicago. The ref was being a dink, and Roger Neilson put a white flag on a Hockey stick in a sarcastic symbol of "We surrender!" The next game in Vancouver, everyone was waving white towels. (Heard many versions of this story in school, thank you Canadian education system).
More recently, I've notice more and more NHL clubs play "Where the streets have no name" as their coming ou of the dressing room tune. Again, this was startd by Vancouver. So like, can't you fucks get your own traditions?

[enigmatic]

1. I prefer the Detroit Octapus

THAT'S the best sports tradtion of them all..

[HEyHEY]

2. I actually agree..Vancouver began many...but that is the BEST

Always thought that one, despitet he sacrifice of an animal, had a certain class to it.

But that "Hockeytown" horseshit in the centreice..yeah, "Centre" spelled "re"... is a fucking joke. I went off on a reporter at the Detroit Free Press about that one night at a Jornalism conference.

[enigmatic]

3. Nah, they aren't Hockeytown

No US city can make that claim, ever.

To me, places like the towns in the Junior Leagues across Canada are the real Hockeytowns; without them, there's no Hockey..

[HEyHEY]

4. I agree there too

two for two tonight Egni.

Yeah, them small towns love their hockey. I, as a Vancouverite, still can't understand it. But that's because I come from a City with and NHL team. Eitehr way, 1,500 people in a tiny, stinky arena on a Saturday night is great... don't know yet (Mr. expat ;-)?Head to a Olds Grizzlies game!

[enigmatic]

8. HA!

My favorite team in the AJHL is the Drumheller Dragons, but we try to go see the Fort Saskatchewan Traders play a few times a year.

I'm totally jonsed up about the start of Curling season, too; I may actually try my hand at it this year...

[no name no slogan]

12. Hockeytown = Eveleth, MN

the home of the US Hockey Hall of Fame. If anybody has a claim, it's them.

[HEyHEY]

13. No, I'd say if anyone has claim is anytown in Canada

[no name no slogan]

14. I should have edited-- "Hockeytown USA"

Most of the 1980 US Olympic Hockey team (the "Miracle on Ice") was from northern MN, a place where most kids learn how to skate before they learn how to walk.

Canada is a completely different story ;)

[AllegroRondo]

16. What is the story with the octapus?

I always wondered what was up with that.

[yvr girl]

19. It used to take 8 games to win the Stanley Cup

Two rounds of best of 7. Now of course, with more teams, it takes more rounds...but it's an old tradition.

[Awsi Dooger]

5. I'm not giving you the white towels

The Miami Dolphins had that more than a decade earlier, in the glory years of the early '70s. The radio play-by-play guy, Rick Weaver, told fans to bring white towels and white hankies and wave them during the games. It caught on to such a degree the Orange Bowl was nothing but waving white every game for years, especially after Miami scored. I was a grade schooler and the fans in front of us kept slinging this big white towel that would snack me in the head.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

6. Popular lore in these parts

has Myron Cope inventing the terrible towel (gold) during the glory years of the Stillers. Yes, Stillers. Ask Myron.

[Awsi Dooger]

9. I remember the Terrible Towel

I think it was an offshoot of the Dolphin gimmick, just a few years later. In the Orange Bowl, it was admittedly a mixture of white towels and white hankies.

I guess those Dolphin teams can't get full credit for anything, other than trivial undefeated season. The Houston Oilers even stole our fight song in the late '70s, after Miami owner Joe Robbie was too cheap to pay for the exclusive rights.

On edit: I might be right regarding Cope getting the idea from Miami. Here's a related post from a Dolphin forum: http://www.finheaven.com/boardvb2/archive/index.php/t-62553.html

"Those Pittsburghers copied us...........Myron Cope came to Miami for a game in the early 70's and decided a white hanky thing for Pittsburgh would be just what they need.........voila! Terrible Towel came into being!

[HEyHEY]

7. Horsehit! - Roger began that tradition!

It stared among hockey fans..in 82

[tekriter]

10. And Miami copied them...

ten years earlier??

[eyepaddle]

17. SNAP

;)

[ironflange]

18. I agree with HEyHEY

Miami may have had a towel thing earlier, but I'm sure Roger Neilson wasn't thinking of it when he improvised that white flag. BTW, I remember watching that game. Next game, the Pacific Coliseum was full of people, all of them waving flags of surrender. Seems kind of dumb when you think of it that way.

[MissMillie]

11. I remember it was the Pittsburgh Steelers w/ the "terrible towel"

in the '70s

[ohiosmith]

15. I still have two of those towels. I got them from The Dog's Ear at

Brentwood Mall.

[flamingyouth]

20. Er, actually the wave started at Husky Stadium

(Or so the legend goes)

Before the Seahawks even graced our fair city with their presence. :D