I havent seen this thread yet but I love it! TP Spicoli.
Ill give you my story.
I grew up in Rhode Island and I have always been a huge basketball fan. I was born in 1986, the last year the old Big 3 won a title. Oddly enough, my Dad was never a fan of sports in general but for some reason he had all these vhs' of taped celtics games. He explained to me that while he didnt really like basketball, watching the 80's Celtics was bigger than basketball. So I was very familiar with those 80's teams from an early age. At the same time, those tapes were enough to make me appreciate the team's history, but the team absolutely stunk from the time I was old enough to appreciate basketball so I was not an active fan. I spent most of the 90's following some young exciting teams (Shaq and Penny's Magic, Zo and LJ's Hornets) and of course the3 Unstoppabulls.
Enter Antoine Walker and Paul Pierce. The minute the C's had those 2 guys, there was something for me to latch onto. They teased me a little in 02-03 and it became an obsession. I was a Kool Aid drinker throughout the youth movement and I caught plenty of flack for bleeding green when it wasn't cool to do so. Then we got the new Big 3 and the rest is history. It was a different path to becoming a Celtics fan. Part Bandwagon, part Celtic for life. No matter how we all got here though is not important. We all wear Celtic green now and are a part of one of the best fanbases in all of sports in America. I couldnt ask for anything better!
PS: My father passed away in 05 and somewhere along the way, that collection of Celtics VHS' dissappeared. I may never get over that.
