origins of Towel Power

[Canadianflipboy1]

to bad the canucks can't win a cup

[bruinshockey4life1]

you know what else is a canuck playoff tradition? losing in the cup finals and chocking during crunch time

[hockeybooks]

@bruinshockey4life1

your profile has June 16, 2011 as the sign up date

bandwagon jumper, for sure

Congrats to Boston, City of Champions

[bruinshockey4life1]

@hockeybooks really? because i have liked them since they had jason allison as their captain. and i had to live through the game 7 loss to carolina and the choke last year against the flyers. yep, i am a bandwagoner for sure

[hockeybooks]

@bruinshockey4life1

uh-huh, sure

[bruinshockey4life1]

@hockeybooks u dont even know what your talking about kid, and o by the way, who just won the stanley cup? that's what i thought

[lambezz17]

Pitt may have started "terrible towel" but the Canucks started "Towel power" And there is so much meaning behind the Canucks tradition. Won the next 3 games against Chicago to move onto the finals. We got sweeped by the Islanders but it was still a magical run none the less

[OhCanada2012]

Are you retarded??? This isn't "another tradition Chicago started". This is the works of Vancouver. The only thing Chicago did for this is supplied the crappy refs. And the guy who said the Terrible Towel came first is right. I believe that was started 7 years earlier in 1975

[canuckfreak123]

everyone knows the Canucks started towel power. Its funny because other sports teams do it but there is no meaning behind it...

Long live the Canucks!!!

[ravballer]

the canukcs started towel power..

[IndianRockey69]

Brings me back to 1982 and why i became a die hard canuck fan... _ :^)

[clubhouseme]

Anyone who says the Canucks started towel waving is obviously too young to remember the Steelers terrible towel in the 70's.Quick history lesson kids-the steelers won 4 Super Bowls waving the terrible towel in the 70's.I'm also a Canucks fan but I know who started this tradition.

[ravballer]

@clubhouseme the canucks started towel power..

[sportykid10]

Canucks started Towel waving and we started the GREEN GUYS!! WATCH ANother city is gonna copy us. and they are gonna copy the green guys outside the penalty box and they will be wearing their teams colours!! HERE's another tradition the Vancouver Canucks have started!!

[canuckfreak123]

@sportykid10 couldn't agree with u more. then there also gonna start the WOOOO over the speakers after the home team scores

[bluetoes591]

@sportykid10

At some point during the season there were orange guys in Anaheim. They were up behind one of the nets, not the penalty box but nevertheless a copycat situation.

[iSitckwitu]

omggg we are all canucks :P

[ravballer]

vancouver canucks started towel power. now everybody does it now

[seanpatf]

As a blackhawks fan, I never forgot it. Game 3 with the sea of towels. The breakaway goal after the canucks killed a power play was the difference. The Canuck fans mocking na na na na na na hey hey hey goodbye was priceless! I thought Luongo was going to be that this past year, but didn't happen.

[ckendall67]

The Steelers 'Terrible Towels' tradition started in 1975 or '76 I believe; then came the Canucks 'Towel Power' of '82... :-)

Not to mention the Minnesota Twins had the 'Homer Hankies' during the 1987 & '91 World Series.....

[hockeybooks]

the canucks towel power was directly related to a game incident , not just marketing

and i concede the date of the football Steeler's towel

[funnyguysinpants]

@hockeybooks to bad no one gives a shit about pittsburgh so when they did it everyones was like Shittsbughs gay but when the Nucks did it they were like wow thts pretty cool

[AlbertaGamer]

The tradition of waving towels at sporting events began in 1982 with Roger Nielson and Canucks fans. The so-called towel event in 1975 was a once-only event, not unlike towel-waving and shirt-waving among fans at soccer games decades prior to that.

It only became a tradition in 1982. It was a hcokey thing; nobody there was thinking about the Steelers or any other team or sport. It was and is a hockey thing; a Canucks thing. Since then other NHL teams and sports have copied it.

[beaverpitt]

you dont know history, the terrible towel wasn't a "One time" thing. It went to 4 Superbowls, every playoff game since 1975 and every REGULAR SEASON game since 1975. Does Vancouver wave towels at REGULAR season games? NO. Don't rewrite history, Myron Cope invented the Terrible towel for a 1975 playoff game against Baltimore. ALL PROCEEDS FROM the towel go to the Allegheny School for the Blind. Where do the "Canuck Towel" profits go? Oh yeah, mindless MTV asshole corporate yuppies

[good2goskee]

@ckendall67 This is a tradition that is based on fighting back against injustice not the newest Walmart sale on sports noise makers. The Towel tradition started by Neilson was so moving that many other teams copied it and other sports ...... ask 10 people what they relate the towel-power to, and 10 people will say hockey and the 82 Canucks

[Br3nd3n14]

now everyone copies the canucks

[PlyrCANUCKS]

absolutely fantastic!

[Enmity94]

i get a hard on whenever i see someone waiving a towel

[pretypapa]

OMG! goosebumbs

[pacmanghostx]

Thank you, Canucks, for starting this tradition in not only hockey, but all sports.

[crimsonstate]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Pittsburgh Steelers had the "Terrible Towel" going on before this. Despite both evolving into a popular tradition from its respective sports fans as a form of rally, their originations were very much different.

[pacmanghostx]

Ehh, I suppose you're right...

The Terrible Towel has been around forever...

We may never really know which one came first, but I say lets give the credit to both the Steelers and Canucks. :)

[AlbertaGamer]

the Steelers did it once, and it obviously meant nothing, as it never happened again, until they copied the Canucks and claimed after the fact that they started the tradition, after the Canucks had already started the tradition.

The Canucks' fans invented the tradition, and it has always had meaning behind it.

[captancanuck85]

what a great moment in canucks history

[hockeybooks]

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[Soccer559]

GO CANUCKS GO!