How did you end up following Carlton?

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Was over from NZ on holiday and saw this weird guy in a headband playing magical football (Doully).

On coming back and settling permanently was asked what team I supported. Didn't know heads or tails about football so answered.. "...that blue team...with the monogram..."

Now whole family = incurably Blue :p
 

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Dad and late Pa barracked for Carlton, only natural for me.

This will be my 12th straight year being a member and over those 12 years, I have had some bloody memorable times that could take up a lifetime of going to the footy week in week out.

Geez I can't wait for the home and away season!!!!!!
 

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My first recollection of following Carlton is being absolutely shattered as a nine year old when they lost the 1969 Grand Final.

So I can only assume I made my choice based on who were the reigning (ie 1968) premiers (I certainly had no family influences).

At that age I would hope that jumping on the bandwagon is an acceptable practice. ;)
 

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Was living above an Italian restaurant during the '93 Grand Final, the blokes who owned it were mad Carlton supporters, and promised me a free ice-cream if I barracked for Carlton.

Seemed fair enough. Sat down and watched the game, hadn't watched it before (although it seemed appealing with the old NES game), and when Long kicked THAT behind (IT WAS ********ING TOUCHED!), I was outraged, and never went anywhere else since....
 

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Stephen Kernahan. The man with tthe golden mullet and the dulcet tones that flowed after the 1987 grand final. How can you go past that.
What a man.
What a mullet
 

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#34
Kooley said:
mum and dad. that's how it should be. i can never understand a family that has members following different teams.
Mum - Essendon
Dad - St.Kilda
Sister - Essendon
Brother - Kangaroos
HBF - Mighty Blues

I was born in Sydney in the early '70's and as North Melbourne were shown every week up there, my brother and I naturally followed them. Mum and Dad had moved up there a few years earlier from Melbourne for work reasons so naturally we'd watch he match of the round.

When we moved back to Melbourne when i was 3, I became good friends with my next door neighbour, who was a Carlton supporter. He convinced to me swap teams, and the rest they say is history.
 

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Blues_Man said:
Having been raised with no father figure i knew nothing of football until i moved from the country to Launceston aged around 7 ..where i met some kids who dragged me along to York Park to watch some footy one day ..I loved it..I asked which team we were going for and they said the red and black ones (North Launceston) so later i grabbed a newspaper and selected teams from all parts of the state ..where i went for all the ones who wore red and black ...when i got to the VFL section ...i did a complete backflip and picked Carlton ...because i liked the name ...phew ...How lucky was i :eek:

I converted my first wife from Collingwood to Carlton ..and then remarried a Carlton supporter ...I now have 5 kids who are all proud Carlton supporters :thumbsu:
Go the Robins. ;)
 

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Mummy was Carlton and Daddy was Collingwood, so i am Carlton and my brother is Collingwood...

Thats just always the way i remember us being... girls against the boys type thing....
 

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In the early eighties my older sister had her friends and boyfriend over watching the footy,as I walked past the t.v a streaker ran out wearing only a Carlton scarf. I was about 9 years old and thought to myself that this just might be the team for me.
 
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