Bruins Nation Turns 5

My favorite place on the web.

I know how much passion and effort have gone into creating and maintaining BN and raise a symbolic glass in your honor on this very special anniversary.

I realize why I come here and no longer go there.
Thank you Nestor and all for such a great site.

Thanks for all the hard work.

and why the " " around “down” when describing last years hoop season? It was a down year. It is an apt description and I don’t think the quotes were needed.

Thank you, Nestor, and all the other managers and editors for all your hard work.

It seems like I’ve put in a lot more than 5 years here.

My very favorite website by miles, bar none.

And, a little OT, but:

I went to the SB Nation’s “regional” get-together here in KC, and it was really enjoyable. If your city is still coming up on their schedule, I highly recommend taking the time to go. You meet sports fans of all ages—in my case, mostly Chiefs fans, with some Jayhawks and WIldcats—and some of the SB Nation staff, plus a lot of the cities have a pretty good attendance by athletes, too, according to the SBN folks. It was very interesting to hear the points of view of the Big 12 fans on their conference’s implosion.

At one point, I understood that one of the people involved in starting BN lives here in the KC area, and the SBN staffers were going to visit him yesterday. Nestor, is this the case, or did I misunderstand this? (It was a little loud in there.)

You make my exile so much easier. I consider this site an extended family, as proof to when Fox asked if Jonathan knows how many aunts and uncles he has on this site. No one understands my Bruin love as much as you guys.

Time flies. Hard to believe it’s been five years.

I think that I speak for everyone when I say that we all appreciate this forum more than you can ever know. I almost never post on other Bruin boards anymore and only visit them after I have reviewed everything on this site and my appeitite isn’t sated (which is a rare occasion).

Forget about other Bruin sites or even sports sites, this place has become the most frequent Web site I visit, PERIOD.

Thank you for providing a true community for Bruins to intelligently discuss topics that are near and dear to our hearts without flaming, potshots, and other drivel that can be found on other boards, UCLA or not.

It’s funny because the whole reason I came over here in the first place (back in the Fall of 2007) was because of a poster’s comment on one of the other Bruin sites, whose opinion I strongly disagreed with, was trashing this place for its belief that CKD should be terminated, which was an opinion I strongly supported. I had to investigate the source of this poster’s consternation and found that the views here and decorum shown here were more in tune with my personal beliefs on the subject and, more importantly, and the respect and civility that should be prevalent in cyberspace, but typically is not. I guess that everything happens for a reason!

I cannot remember what life was like before BN!

And, Go Bruins!

Thanks to all who frequent this site and especially those who maintain it’s integrity(physically and intellectually).
After my father passed, I kind of lost my way and had a “I don’t care anymore” attitude about sports in general. Since coming upon BN last year, I now have a renewed enthusiasm for all things Bruin and look forward to the insight, camaraderie, and just general bs (:-) that emotes form this site. It’s a blast !!!! I haven’t enjoyed the Bruins so much in years. Thank you all.

When I found this blog I finally found people who cared as much about the Bruins as I. And being here has really helped me, not only express my joys and not joys with people feeling like me, but has opened my eyes to more Bruin sports. For the first time, I attended several Women’s bball games, gymnastic meets, and baseball games, nothing I would have thought about doing before. I think this blog, not only give us a place to talk and learn, but, if I am any example, actually increases the fan base for all Bruin teams. What a great service.

Between signing day, basketball threads (and being able to groan together every time drago got the ball), the great coverage of woman’s bball and men’s baseball, the idiocy at the other school, it’s been an exciting year.

And thank goodness I had this place to read and speak when Coach was ill and passed away. Not many people around me were feeling the depth I was, but people here were. And having an ongoing telling of stories and memoirs, wow, how beautiful and important for everyone. We might have read things in the press. But here we also got to share and I think that was so powerful for everyone.

Thank you so much for my favorite and most viewed site. Thank you for the care you give to this community and for doing things the right way.

Just wanted to add my belated-but-heartfelt congratulations and gratitude for BN. Some days many days, actually), Bruinsnation is the sanest place I know of.

Humor, enlightenment, passion…, BN has it all. Happy Birthday!