[Nostalgia]First reference of ClutchFans or ClutchCity.net?

Back in 1999. I just did a search on Yahoo! and the site was one of the results.

 

A guy I used to know checked the front page every day in study hall my freshman year in high school. That would have been in '98. I wandered into the BBS shortly thereafter.

 

I'm not sure which year it was, but the first time I came across this site there was the April Fools joke up about turning clutchity into a Spurs fan site. I just remembered being really confused, and wondering why anyone would forsake the Rockets...

Haha. All I know is, that was a hell of a long time ago. And I was really young and gullible.

I didn't come across the message board until just recently. I used to read Clutch's witty game re-caps all the time. This site has always been so much better than rockets.com, and I have probably checked it thousands of times in my life.

 

i first came here thru a yahoo search in 1996 when i was 14 and clutch was still on a college server. my username back then was "CHI" and i was an annoying little kid to everyone.

can i have my old nick back clutch?

 

Major was the first person I ever knew that visited Clutchcity.com. I registered on the BBS before he did; however. For the young 'uns, Major used to be known as shanna. He started that moniker during a "hot girl" thread because that was my psycho ex's name who would get mad at me anytime a hot girl was in our vincinity, much less me talking about one. I think his first post was something along the lines of "what are you doing talking about this stuff?!?!?!"

 

It was pretty early on, 97 I think. Found it by searching Rockets. Took awhile to get on the bbs. I've tried to reclaim my original nick on here, but it never goes anywhere. I miss all the commentary on the site from the early days, the GARM is too hard to wade through.

 

i was 2 years behind him

 

First found clutchcity linked through a Rockets webring late 96 or early 97. I stumbled across the bbs a short time later, but mostly lurked early on.

 

RocketDawg, who does not post in here but does occasionally read the GARM (he has WAY more patience than I do) turned me onto the site. I waited about 4 months before posting.

BTW RocketDawg just had his first kid, congrats brutha.

 

I think I pretty much joined the day I found the site. I was looking for information on the draft. That was May 2000. The Rockets had the 9th pick and eventually got Jason Collier. My first post, ironically, was about Kenyon Martin vs. Stromile Swift.

 

I don't exactly remember....was looking for an ootp leauge or something, somehow got mentioned to look at this board...i think thats how it went. Anyways been here ever since.

 

Some guy I worked with was browsing the site one day and I asked him about it. I can't remember his name (real or bbs) so if you worked in IT at a company called Fugro back in 99 or 2000, then thanks!

 

I remember when I first heard of clutchfans.net. It was back in 2000, or 2001. I was too busy playing Diablo II to get around to joining clutchfans.net, and then they started charging. So now that clutchfans.net is now free (THanks Clutch!) I can post on here! I have been posting on the ezboard astros forum, but not here before this. I think clutchfans.net is a really good source of info for my AOL sports blog that I keep.

 

I believe I became officially "hooked" when we traded for Pippen. Around then, I would print the wallpapers and hang them on my walls.

 

Googled Houston Rockets and chat group and voila!

 

I did the same thing at work. I still have a "Save Our Rockets" bumper sticker on my toolbox.

 

It was Hakeem's last year with the team. I was actually trying to discuss the Rockets on some AOL BBS. I was fed up with the immaturity and poor level of discussion going on.

One of the posters on that board then told me I should check out ClutchCity.

I don't think I ever had a chance to properly think that person. It was such an amazing and refreshing thing to see level of discussion going on at that time.

That was two screen names ago. I kept having long periods of absence from the internet, often due to poverty, or other priorities. I would forget the screen name, and then have to make up a new one.

 

I found the site via saveourrockets.com the grassroots efforts by Jeff and others to save the Rockets from relocation. Was that 1999 or 2000? I cant remember.

Anyways, Id always been a big fan, and this was a cool site with cool people that enjoyed the same thing that I did - what could be better?

 

Yea that's when I heard of it, when the Rockets were thinking of moving. Also my roommate posts here and I saw him posting, that's when I joined. I lurked mostly for a long time until I made my debut with the infamous "Indian Rapper" thread.