When I first started following the Rangers in the early 1990s, I was seven years old. Growing up in the Netherlands, I did not have any friends who followed hockey. It was just me.
Following the Rangers
The reason I liked the Rangers is a weird one. Watching highlights of games, I noticed the Rangers were the only team to not have a logo on their jersey. Of course this changed later on with the Liberty jerseys and 2012 Winter Classic jersey, but this was 1992. I thought it was odd and that intrigued me.
I would head over to the American bookstore in The Hague regularly to find New York newspapers that had articles about the Rangers and spend my pocket money buying them, so I could read them at home.