I Love Richmond Because

[tigerfansince86]

I'd like to know how you all became Richmond supporters? I know it hasn't been an easy journey but the future looks very bright indeed. So how and when did you become a Tigers supporter? and apart of the best aussie rules club in the land. I'm tell you I use to be a bombers supporter when i was 3 but my step dad's, dad came around with a Richmond football and jumper and I was won over lol,

 

[Grockadoc]

8th of January 1994. My first birthday. Tradition of our family is that on our first birthday, we are presented with pictures of club colours and mascots. Whatever picture we picked out was the team we would follow. I picked out the Tiger, and this was further enhanced on my second birthday when my Pa, a die hard tigers supperter, bought me my first Tigers guernsey and beanie. I have kept them ever since, as a reminder I was born to follow the Tigers and nothing will change that

 

[wart101]

to answer the post properly, i have supported richmond since i was very young, my dad has supported the tig's since early childhood, we went to glenelg tiger games and have a fascination with tigers as a consequence we go for anything tigers, my real love is richmond, i wore the number 12 gurnsey all through junior football and have supported them through thick and thin, love the new revolution that is coming, it just kisses me where it smells funny!!!

 

[chrstphrwnstn]

Richo.

Stop your bickering. No one cares.

 

[Croat tiger]

Been supporting them since I was a whippersnapper aged 7...

 

[captain blood 17]

1978 - A tigers father, and 2 out of 3 older brothers supported the mighty Tigers. I never had a chance.
I can't explain it, but, i didn't need their coersion. They were and are my second love behind family. When everything else goes to shit, there are two things you will always have, your family and your footy team. The Tigers are mine.

 

[Groupie_]

Jeez whats with all the red cards for Richmond posters lately?

For me it was my uncle who brainwashed me.. He was a Richmond fan who had grown up in the 70s witnessing our flags and dominance..

I started following them because of him and my cousins in 1992 at the age of 6. I was also instantly attracted to the colours and the tiger mascot and it wasn't long before I started begging my parents to buy me a beanie and jumper. I actually had number 10 on my first guernsey (Nick Daffy) lol

Still remember celebrating the 95 semi final win against the bumms.. and then crying like a baby a week after that when we got pumped by Geelong in the prelim.

 

[TOOs_Finest]

Father is a Swans supporter, and had high hopes for me. Little did he know that whilst he was off slaving his guts out to put food on the table, a couple of teenage neighbourhood Tiger supporters were quietly recruiting me to the RFC brotherhood. A couple of free scarves and beanies pretty much had me secured by the age of four or five. Haven't looked back since, although I did go hungry for a while there.

My faith is only strengthened by this...

 

[Tzatziki_Man]

For me? 1995.


I loved the Lion King and was going to become a Fitzroy supporter until my godmother pulled me aside and SAVED my life!

She knew they were on an almighty sinking ship, so saved me the pain.

1. She took me to the zoo, we got to handle the Tiger cubs, and that was the biggest thrill of my life, I've learnt to love the animal, not just our mascot.

2. She bought me colouring books and we went through Tiger after Tiger, colouring it in different shades of yellows & oranges (with black).

3. On my 5th birthday (still remember this like it was yesterday), my cousins played pass the parcel with me, it was a little parcel, and once I won (it was such a thrill!) I got to open the present. Which was a Richmond Tiger magnet.

4. Semi-Final against Essendon, by then I was completely brainwashed for life. I didn't think anything in the world was greater than the Richmond Football Club, and quite frankly, the club still ranks highly on that list.

5. After the game, she bought me my first guernsey, Nick Daffy's number 10, and he was my favourite because I used to collect those looney tune tazo's.

Ohhh what a great time!

 

[froars]

I'm sick

 

[1980GFVideo]

As a real young guy I barracked for the Demons to piss off parents because they forced me to go to church every Sunday.

Older guy at church said he would take me to Richmond Melbourne game.

He then said do I want to go next week. It would be a Richmond game though.

I went and Richmond just kicked in.

He took me through the late seventies to the early eighties.

I remember standing near the players race and seeing Sheeds walk up with the lace up. He looked as if he had been through war. Can still see that image in my head.

BTW - I am really warming to that new logo.

 

[Maroo]

I don't have one specific defining thing.

My mum is a tiger, and my 2 brothers were when I was a kid (dad's not an Aussie, so wasn't really passionate). My local footy club were the tigers, and I couldn't wait to be a tiger too.

After a very brief memory I have of liking the Bears in the late 80s when I was too young to know better, it just sort if happened really.

 

[Pugnosis]

Grandparents on both sides were born and raised in Richmond. My mother's dad was the Mayor of Richmond and Carroll St in Richmond is named after him. Therefore both parents were born and raised in Richmond.

My siblings and I had no chance! (Not that we ever wanted one!)

 

[BILC]

No "moment" for me. The whole family are Tigers supporters, I've been a Tigers supporter for as long as i can remember.

 

[Wacky Tiger]

Good thread i like it.

As a young SA kid never really had much interest in the VFL. Always supported Sturt here in SA.

Crows came into the league and as every young kid followed them i tagged along. Then followed the Bears for a year as our local club switched guernseys and team name to the Bears so followed them only for them the next year to merge with Fitzroy.

Then came the tigers. Always even as a young kid had a soft spot for Tigers teams as my old man played for a Tigers team so around 97 im guessing with a young and exciting Richo and Campbell roaming the MCG is when i started following them, it was also good to be different from everyone else.

Over the 15 odd years since i have grown to love them like its a family tradition. Even throughout the poor years (most of them unfortunately) my love has been getting stronger and stronger.

 

[KiwiTiger]

I am the only Tiger in my family. The "tough" love affair started way back when there was zoning. Unfortunately, my parents lived 500metres east of Warrigal Rd in what is now Glen Iris. It was Hawthorn's zone. The other side of Warrigal Rd was Richmond. The Powerful Essex Heights club was "over the road". My mates lived "over the road". My older brother barracked for Hawthorn. I wasn't going to follow him! I played for Ashburton Methodists, in the Hawthorn zone. We regularly played Little League for Hawthorn due to zoning. Famously, within my family anyway, we have Video of me, playing little league for Hawthorn, streaming out of the middle of Princes Park and kicking the wrong way, deliberately, against the mighty RFC. I felt severely compromised that day and told my coach that. I was dragged but I'm still proud of it. 30 years on, I probably love them even more, especially living overseas. I still see them live about 15 times a year, and I've had the opportunity to contribute to the club administratively and financially. I also like assist other Richmond people enjoy Richmond experiences, which I've been fortunate enough to experience.
I'd be lost without them.

Haere Ra

 

[Frustrated Tiger]

Was in Italy in 1982 in Pisa when I said to my mum ( Essendon supporter ), " I want to barrack for Carlton " and she said " Carlton....no way, their supporters are all scum and trouble makers "....I then said " how about the tigers? " She said... " Yeah, they're o.k "......my love for the Tigers was born that day.

Now fighting off my in-laws who want to turn my son into a Kangaroos supporter....all I say to them is " My son will barrack for the mighty tigers as north wont be around for much longer ".....always shuts them up....

 

[Hipster Doofus]

My family raised me a Tiger and a Tiger I shall stay

 

[nbourke]

I'd like to know how you all became Richmond supporters? I know it hasn't been an easy journey but the future looks very bright indeed. So how and when did you become a Tigers supporter? and apart of the best aussie rules club in the land. I'm tell you I use to be a bombers supporter when i was 3 but my step dad's, dad came around with a Richmond football and jumper and I was won over lol,

Sorry, but you are all wrong. None of us "chose" to be Tigers supporters, being a Tiger supporter chose us!

THIS IS TIGERLAND

 

[delediofan3]

I'm sexy and I know it.

 

[nbourke]

I love Richmond because I'm a passionate ****.

inb4 fb group.

 

[KingNothing]

When I was no more than a month old my grandfather beat my Geelong supporting father and Hawthorn supporting mother to punch by putting a little Tigers beanie on my head.

 

[tugga]

I am the only Tiger in my family. The "tough" love affair started way back when there was zoning. Unfortunately, my parents lived 500metres east of Warrigal Rd in what is now Glen Iris. It was Hawthorn's zone. The other side of Warrigal Rd was Richmond. The Powerful Essex Heights club was "over the road". My mates lived "over the road". My older brother barracked for Hawthorn. I wasn't going to follow him! I played for Ashburton Methodists, in the Hawthorn zone. We regularly played Little League for Hawthorn due to zoning. Famously, within my family anyway, we have Video of me, playing little league for Hawthorn, streaming out of the middle of Princes Park and kicking the wrong way, deliberately, against the mighty RFC. I felt severely compromised that day and told my coach that. I was dragged but I'm still proud of it. 30 years on, I probably love them even more, especially living overseas. I still see them live about 15 times a year, and I've had the opportunity to contribute to the club administratively and financially. I also like assist other Richmond people enjoy Richmond experiences, which I've been fortunate enough to experience.
I'd be lost without them.

Haere Ra

Your blood should be bottled mate.

 

[William6]

i have been brainwashed by my dad and thank god, far back as four i remember the bombers would stand out to me and james hird, i remember my dad said "if you dont your f****d, because they are the greatest team, they had kevin sheedy when i was a kid, and we got 10 priemierships" i remember when i got my Richmond jumper, with rich's number on the back, with all the players signatures, the players around 2001, got matty knights aswell ! As i gotten older though the club fascinated me more and more, we have the toughest, fierencest animal for a maco, we have the greatest crowd, and because every Richmond supporter knows we've been shit for so long, we feel the same and when we are good soon we're just gonna let out our fukinhg anger! And our failure will make our success sweeter , i remember i cried in our last prelim only because we lost i was too young to know that, that was our second finals series, since 1995, and before that 1982, i didnt know that our players were ageing either, and knowing this that it happened 10 years ago, frustrates, annoys me, and i took us for granted that year because i was a young kid, we'll make it soon dont worry about that

 

[The Rusty Trombone]

I used to be a Deputy Sherriff in Ohio USA and this old Crazy guy who had a private zoo let over 50 wild animals out one day and committed suicide. It was a bad scene as a lot of these animals had been mistreated by this old kook and were un fed which proved a danger to the local community.

To cut a long story short in the space of 24 hours I had to shoot dead 18 Bengal Tigers amongst a few bears, lions and mountain cats to protect the local town folk.

It was hard to do but had to be done. Ever since then I have supported the Tigers through and through and I feel as though I owe them.

Tigers for ever