How long have you been a Rockets fan and where are you from?

I'm from vancouver, bc, canada. Watch Rockets since 2002.

 

one the few aussie rox fans...im from sydney in NSW...

love my rox, go to any lengths just see the scores....whether its scamming off someone elses wireless internet, or trying to get reception on a phone in the middle of no where thru mobile web....

ive only been a fan since like the year steivie got traded away, but im a die hard fan....im only 16 but i love my rox...

aussie rox fans unite guys..

 

I'm from Shanghai, China. I've been a rockets Fan since Yao went to NBA

 

I was born and raised in China.Now living in Canada. Have been a Rox fan since Yao was drafted.

 

That is CLASSIC!!! lol Dude, you got major sackage

 

born in houston (texas women's hospital) in '87. fan since then
my first memory is sitting in the pavillion at the astrodome watching steve finley catch a fly ball.

94-95 are one of my favorite of childhood memories, cars honking all over the city as soon as the final buzzer sounded, running out to honk the horn... good times.

my vocallity up here at Tech has earned me the nickname "houston" among a few of my friends.

 

This is deffinately the wrong place to post it, but i can't start a thread in the buy/sell section or whatever on account of my newbie status.

but, does anyone know where i can get a throwback tomjonavich jersey? i know adidas makes the yao and mcgrady in that style, does anyone know where i could get one made or something? thanks for any help, or just reading this crap.

 

After moving to Texas City from my birthplace in Galveston, I began to listen to my first Rockets games on the radio in 1978.

I now live in Clarksville, TN after being moved around by the US Army. I still watch when I can when I'm not working or when they come on TV. I used to watch them every year when I had Primestar in 99' (now DirecTV) on NBA League pass, but I find the average game in the past years nerve-wracking, so now I only watch when they are on regular TV. Of course, the first year I don't have League Pass, it has been the most relaxing ball games to watch in forever-never.

 

been a rox addict since 2002 shanghainese

 

Born and raised in Indiana; played high school ball, plus freshman year at Purdue in late '50s. Moved to Houston in the late '70s, been a Rockets fan ever since.

 

Total respect man. Boiler Up!

 

Oh and I've been a Rockets fan since Barkley (1996) and was born and raised in indiana. I still live here now but graduate in a year and will be going to one of the coasts.

 

from China,love Rockets since 2001

 

I started following the Rockets in Hakeem Olajuwon's rookie season after all the excitement from Phi Slamma Jamma. I was about 11 years old at the time.

Back then, couldn't watch the home games on TV because we didn't have cable and a lot of times my dad didn't let me watch the games if they were on late on the road. So I have to listen to Gene Petersen on my crappy clock radio.

I'll never forget the game Hakeem scored 50 pts against seattle in game 6 - it ended at 2:30am in the morning. I was late for school the next day.

I love basketball, the game to me is the perfect coordination of both individual and team talent - it's takes both to be a winner - it's truly a beatiful thing when it all comes together like we're seeing now.

It was worth 10 years to finally see it again.

 

I'm from china
I've been a rockets' fan since Yao in draft.

 

I am from HongKong. i became a rockets fan since...YAO was drafted by the rocket

 

I'm a long-time Houstonian originally from fabulous Gary, Indiana...I'm of Filipino descent.

I've been a Rox fan since the days of Wiggins, Lew, Petersen, McCray, Leavell, Sampson, Akeem, Lucas and Reid.

I still remember "the shot" of 1986 on CBS. It was insane in my household. I graduated high school that year and man what an event for such a sweet, sweet year.

I remember the trade for Joe Barry Carroll and Sleepy Floyd and their very first game I believe in Denver in 1988 on Channel 20. That ball was moving around crazy like good chemistry at first, prompting Bill Worrell to say something like, "look at these new look Rockets!"

The Nuggets then proceeded to blow them out of McNichols arena later on.

I have shaken hands with Vernon Maxwell at Ballroom back in the Shepherd Plaza days and Sleepy Floyd (at his Caffe Fresco in Sugar Land, long defunct). It was something to see Sleepy take our money off the table as we left...the man who once torched Magic Johnson in the 1987 playoffs for something like 50 plus points in a game. Both are fairly nice guys, I thought.

I saw Horry playing a race car video game at the Richmond Ave Dave & Busters in 1993...but I didn't say anything or go up to him. He didn't look as crowd friendly that night as Vernon did.

I braved a hostile crowd in Orlando in 1991 to see the Magic clobber the Rockets, ending a 13 game win streak (but the Rockets beat Miami the next night). So in 15 games, I saw the one game where they lost.

I braved a hostile but interesting crowd in 1996 Inglewood as Charles Barkley led the Rockets to a thrilling win over the Lakers, Hakeem out for the game. I loved wearing my "HOUSTON" cap in that arena...and I don't wear caps otherwise (I have great hair ). I still remember that Japanese-descent chick who...well, what a cramped, greasy-looking stadium the Forum was compared to the bright and clean Summit.

Aside from those, I have the same memories basically as the other Rockets fans...

 

Hi all! I'm 14/f/tx

I love basketball and the Rockets because Tmac is so cuuute!



a/s/l?

 

I'm from Los Angeles.

I have been a Houston Rockets fan since 1988; I saw the Lakers 1987 video when Ralph Samson hit that magnificent shot that sent the Houston Rockets to the NBA Finals of the year 1986. I thought it was cool how Olajuwon and Samson fearlessly dealt with the onslaught of the magnificent Laker dynasty.

I hoping for Clutch City III this year of 2008.

 

Born and raised in Houston, been a rockets fan since I was 6 -- the year they went to the finals against Boston. I still remember watching with my dad on a 12" WHITE sony tv in his bedroom

Living in Perth Australia since the start of LAST season and am coming back home to Houston this Sept*....can't wait to get back to the H.



*if we goto the finals this year I'm on the 1st plane back though