Five Celebrities Who Cheer For The St. Louis Blues

St. Louis is not well known for being a celebrity hot bed, filled with limousines and red-carpet affairs. However, the city has it’s share of celebrities and those celebrities love the St. Louis Blues.

When people from outside of St. Louis think about the city, the first thing they think about is St. Louis Cardinals baseball. The second thing they probably think about is why anyone would live in St. Louis or cheer the St. Louis Blues.

When you’ve lived in a place, or at least been here, you know all the ins and outs. You find things to love and things to do.

Perhaps St. Louis doesn’t have the night life of a city like New York or Las Vegas, but it’s not a cow town either. There is a reason so many former Blues players stay, or come back to the city once they are done playing.

Another misconception about St. Louis is that nobody is from here. Perhaps they don’t wear it on their proverbial sleeve every moment of the day like Jay-Z being from New York, but St. Louis has famous people and thus their hockey team has some famous fans.

Some we did not know about until recently. Some, we will never be able to remove from our minds because they were shown every moment of the day during the Stanley Cup Final.

There will undoubtedly be some left off this list. Here are five of the bigger celebrity fans of the St. Louis Blues.

Yadier Molina

Speaking of people who were likely not hockey fans right off the bat, Yadier Molina has to jump to mind. Beautiful Puerto Rico is known for many things, but ice hockey is not one of them.

Molina’s fandom has no clear origin, but it likely started through Chris Carpenter. Carpenter played hockey, growing up in New England, and continued a love for the game playing baseball in Toronto.

Carpenter was often spotted at Blues games while with the Cardinals, so he probably took Yadi along. Thus a new fandom was born and now Yadi is one of the biggest Blues fans around.

Carrying on the tradition, Yadi is now the one bringing other guys to games. Often it’s a pitcher, but Yadi has been seen with the likes of Adam Wainright (another big fan now), Jason Motte as well as many others.

Molina brings in kids to watch from the suites too. So, it’s not just a guys night out with a bunch of wealthy friends.

Molina uses it as a way to introduce young fans to the game, brighten the days of sick or less fortunate as well as other reasons.

What makes Molina such a great fan is that he sticks around. Baseball is a completely different season, other than a month or two on either end.

You could totally get if Yadi bolted St. Louis for a warmer climate once baseball ends, but he sticks around. He goes to Blues games and interacts with the fans.

It just shows that he’s not only a Blues fan, but a part of the city.

Jenna Fischer

Thankfully Jenna Fischer is no relation to Jeff Fisher. Otherwise, we might have to leave her off this list.

Honestly, I had no clue that Fischer was even from the St. Louis area. Like many actors, you just don’t know where they’re from because they become associated with Hollywood, or in some cases New York.

Once the Stanley Cup playoffs rolled around in 2019, there was hardly anyone who paid attention that did not know Fischer was from St. Louis. More importantly, they knew she was a Blues fan.

Fischer went all over social media touting the Blues and each accomplishment they racked up.

One of her more popular posts was about a drink she “invented”. It was called the Jordan Binnington and the ingredients were ice and water. If you get it, you get it.

Additionally, Fischer began a friendly (not so friendly) rivalry with her on-screen husband, John Krasinski. Krasinski is a Boston Bruins fan, so that made for some entertaining exchanges.

The Office’s Jim learned that hard way that the wife is always right.

Fischer’s fandom of the Blues got her noticed by the NHL in general.  Due to her involvement during the playoffs, she got to be selected as an honorary coach during the 2020 NHL All-Star Game in St. Louis.

Chris Long

I was trying to keep Long off this list, mainly because there is an abundance of athletes. It’s easy to cheer for the other team in your city while you’re playing because it’s just something to do on an off day.

However, Long has shown that he cares about the team and the city even after leaving St. Louis. Essentially, he has shown that he’s a real fan.

As KSDK pointed out at the time, Long showed the irony of sports. As a former player that retired elsewhere, he showed more love for the city of St. Louis than the owner of the football team that departed west.

Long was always big in charity work across St. Louis. Sometimes he would involve hockey games in those charity works.

During his playing days, it was harder to get to games due to the NHL season clashing with the NFL for several months. Once spring rolled around, Long would stop in now and again.

Like Fischer, Long’s social media accounts were wall to wall Blues during the 2019 Stanley Cup run. Prior to Long attending Game 3, he managed to combine two of his (and mine) favorite things – hockey and wrestling.

What makes Long endearing, like Molina, is the support for the city as a whole while supporting the hockey team. He made sure to point out that he was a former St. Louis Ram.

Jon Hamm

No list of celebrity Blues fans would be complete without Jon Hamm on it. The guy is basically the poster child of Blues fandom right now.

Hamm is no Johnny Come Lately either. Hamm has been involved with the Blues for years.

I mean, just look at the shape of his hat. That thing has been through the battles.

Hamm did video work for the team for their 50th anniversary. If I’m not mistaken, he was involved in a brief video production even before that, but that’s going off personal memory, so don’t take that to the bank.

Hamm admitted that the busier he was with Mad Men, the fewer games he usually saw. That became especially true when the league changed the schedule format and the Blues and L.A. Kings only played three times a year.

But, for the Stanley Cup, Hamm made the trip just to come back home and experience it all. When the Blues won the Western Conference, Hamm summed up being a Blues fan about as well as you can.

Hamm got his own press conference time with national media during the Stanley Cup Final. Maybe that’s standard these days, but I don’t remember seeing it that often with other celebrity fans.

Hamm will be forgiven for almost costing the Blues the Cup by having to shave his beard for a role. As far as famous people go, the Blues Cup run will be synonymous with a ratty, old Blues hat and some interesting scarves.