OT: Time to introduce yourself

It's good to see ClubBlazers continue to attract more and more people each week. I hope you continue to refer friends to this site as I have.

We haven't done this for a long time and a good time to introduce yourself to the rest of board members.

Cut and paste the format.... thanks and Go Blazers

First Name: Jim
Age: 51
Occupation field: High Tech
Blazer fan: since the beginning
Favorite past Blazer: Clyde Drexler
Favorite current Blazer: Greg Oden
Any favorite Blazer moment(s):
- 1992 Championship games vs. Chicago (Jordan & Pippen)
- 2006 Draft of trades getting Roy & Aldridge
- 2007 Draft & trades getting Oden, Fernandez & Koponen & trading Zach Randolph

First Name: Rich
Age: old as dirt
Occupation field: High school teacher
Blazer fan: since the beginning
Favorite past Blazer: Arvydas Sabonis and Geoff Petrie
Favorite current Blazer: Brandon Roy
Any favorite Blazer moment(s): Meeting, talking with, and getting the autograph of the Schonz at the 2008 draft in Portland.

First Name: John
Age: 52
Occupation field: therapist and reiki teacher, certified hypnotherapist, polarity therapy, holographic memory release, residential construction consultanting and contraction
Blazer fan: since the beginning
Favorite past Blazer: Bill Walton/Maurice Lucas
Favorite current Blazer: Greg Oden
Any favorite Blazer moment(s):
The Championship parade
The fight between Lucas and Dawkins
The draft of Oden
having Schonz pat me on the back and smile at me at the Rose Garden
Last season.
This season

First Name: Ryan
Age: 33
Occupation field: Hotel Manager
Blazer fan: Spurs fan since 1989
Favorite past Blazer: Porter, Kerr, and Kersey (Spurs of course)
Favorite current Blazer: Rudy
Any favorite Blazer moment(s): 1999 Memorial Day Miracle

Good thing Ryno posted, or I would be the baby here.

Name: Murray
Age 42
Occupation md
Location Wisconsin (but moving west as soon as I can)
Blazer fan: Since mid-80's
Favorite past Blazer--Clyde
Favorite Current Blazer--I will let em sort themselves out--have a suspicion it might be Oden.

First Name: Eric
Age: 31

Occupation field: Medical Consulting

Blazer fan: Birth

Favorite past Blazer: Drazen Petrovic

Favorite current Blazer: Greg Oden

Any favorite Blazer moment(s):
Blazers beat the Suns...1992 Ihink in the playoffs? The Double OT game?????

First Name: Nick
Age: 21
Occupation field: Student at OSU
Blazer fan: Pretty much since I was born. My parents were huge blazer fans
Favorite past Blazer: Sabonis
Favorite current Blazer: Aldridge
Any favorite Blazer moment(s):
Watching the 2007 lottery and seeing Portland get the #1 pick (hey, I'm only 21... there weren't a lot of great blazer moments so far for me)

Welcome Pinman.

First Name: Derek
Age: 32
Occupation field: Public Servant
Blazer fan: Early 90s - first time i watched them (vs Lakers in playoffs)
Favorite past Blazer: Drexler
Favorite current Blazer: Roy
Any favorite Blazer moment(s): Sitting up to watch highlights of Portland losing against the bulls. Horrible, but memorable. Also, the comeback vs the Lakers in 'those' WCF. People talk about game 7 - but they forget we were 1-3.

First Name: Larry
Age: 39
Occupation field: Financial/Retirement Planning
Blazer fan: since 1967
Favorite past Blazer: Clyde Drexler
Favorite current Blazer: The Team...which is great to be able to do again
Any favorite Blazer moment(s):
.....Winning the lottery to get Oden
.....Winning the 1977 Title and running down the hall of the school where my dad worked as fast as I could.
.....Rebounding for Peter Goodmanson (sp?) when I was just a tyke.
.....Having Billy Ray Bates come to my small town and visiting him personally in the homemade red Blazer uni mom made for me.
.....Brian Grant vs. Karl Malone. That could me the loudest I've ever heard the Rose Garden.
.....Drexler jumping out of the gym to grab an alley-oop in L.A.
.....Kermit Washington to Billy Ray Bates at the horn against the at the time powerful 76ers.

shaun
48
landscape contractor
since moved to astoria in 82 and listened to the shonz on the radio
sabonis
all of them

First Name: Kayla
Age: 16
Occupation field: Still in HS
Blazer fan: since birth, daddy raised me right. Ha
Favorite past Blazer: Kersey or Steele
Favorite current Blazer: Brandonnnn
Any favorite Blazer moment(s):
- Being in the t-shirt exchange and playing musical chairs during a halftime show. Lol. :]

First Name: Bill
Age: 43
Occupation field: Architect
Blazer fan: Since moving here in 1990
Favorite past Blazer: Jerome Kersey
Favorite current Blazer: Brandon, but leaning toward Greg Oden
Any favorite Blazer moment(s):
Brian Grant versus Karl Malone in the playoffs
Winning the first pick in the draft last year
Being at the Rose Garden when they selected Greg Oden

First Name: Kidell
Age: N/A
Occupation field: Admin of sport sites
Blazer fan: since birth, especiallysince the moving of Sonics. But always an equal fan of both
Favorite past Blazer: Clyde
Favorite current Blazer: B Roy

Mike
Union Electrician
40
Roy
Clyde
Democrat

Blah blah blah... Used to be goblaze,newerapdx,blazerspark, rock lobster, yada yada on old board we do go to anymore.

Wanna know anything else?

Hello to all I knew before, and to all that I don't know!