Philadelphia Flyers Fans Feed “Classless” City Reputation, Throw Bracelets Honoring Dead Owner Onto Ice
It’s getting increasingly hard to be a Philadelphia sports fan. Not only have we had to deal with teams ranging from mediocre to complete flaming bags of shit for the better part of the last decade, but we’ve had to be this laughing stock of a city all while the national media has spun a rhetoric that we’re vile, malicious beasts who revel in both masochism and the suffering of others. They act like we’re the only town that takes passion for sports a bit too far. For fuck’s sake, people get stabbed every Giants/Dodgers series and no one blinks an eye. But Philly? If we do something, it’s held against us for the rest of our miserable lives. We get it. We threw snowballs at a shoddy Santa fifty years ago. Get some new material, you hacks.
What’s that? Something happened at the Flyers game tonight?
Pregame should be crazy. There are bracelets on every seat that will light up based on location. pic.twitter.com/Tb8Dwr1cw5
— Dave Isaac (@davegisaac) April 18, 2016
Wristbands, huh? That seems like a good idea. A bunch of boozed up fans already on edge down 2-0 in the series. Really hope this game doesn’t get out of hand and people start slinging these things with no regard for mankind. Oh, these are to honor the late Ed Snider? We can be assholes from time to time, but we’re not monsters. R.I.P. Eddy. Let’s hold a moment of silence for you, my man.
So this was the moment of silence @NHLFlyers that was ruined tonight. It was a bad night all around pic.twitter.com/XLO0Vq4ofV
— Cindy Webster (@Cindy610) April 19, 2016
Sweet baby Jesus. Have some damn respect you jabronis. That…that was not a good look. But it can’t get worse than that, right?
Now Lou Nolan is downright pissed. STOP THROWING BRACELETS!!!! pic.twitter.com/zkxrnNgdPM
— Cindy Webster (@Cindy610) April 19, 2016
We’ve done it now, guys. Not only did we just piss all over Ed Snider’s grave and give the national media another 100 years of material to fuel the “terrible fans” rhetoric, but we broke P.A. announcer, Lou Nolan. He’s so defeated. So heartbroken. You assholes might have just put poor, sweet, old Louie into the ground as well. This is officially rock bottom..
As a philly sports fan. Ok Bellemare didn’t mean to do that so lets just chill out, second what’d you expect a bunch of drunk pissed off fans to do after they just wasted between $100 and 1k on watching their team get stomped for the 3rd time. They threw the bracelets cuz they were handy and easy to throw, not to shit on Snider. I’m sure if the seats weren’t bolted to the floor they would’ve thrown them too.
9 years ago at 4:19 am“Didn’t mean to do it” doesn’t allow Orlov to walk again if he was paralyzed. And as for what I expect from the fans, some respect for the sport and the players and maybe realizing “hey the caps are a far better team then us” that’s what I would expect… But it’s Philly.
9 years ago at 9:13 amPhilly deserves this reputation. Just classlessness all-around.
9 years ago at 6:19 amBill Burr had an epic rant about Philly. I highly recommend you YouTube it.
9 years ago at 7:05 amBellemare should be suspended for that hit. One of the most dangerous things you can do on the ice.
9 years ago at 8:12 amHe will get suspended but not for long. He wasn’t trying to hit Orlov from behind. He also immediately made sure Orlov was okay and helped him get away from the line brawl. Everything that needed to go wrong to make that play dangerous did go wrong unfortunately.
9 years ago at 9:52 amHe tried to slow up but when you’re going that fast towards he boards and a guy loses his balance in front of you there’s not much you can do.
9 years ago at 11:19 amHe is just living up to the rumor that the French are dirty
9 years ago at 11:56 amHe was suspended for Game 4 tonight only
9 years ago at 2:26 pmI knew they were classless bottom feeders when Michael Irvin was on the field potentially paralyzed and the Eagle fans were throwing batteries and other crap at him. After that career ending injury they celebrated that fact. Granted I disliked the Eagles before that but that really made me despise them.
9 years ago at 8:21 amKeep philly weird
9 years ago at 8:52 amIt would have been better if it was caps v. bruins
9 years ago at 9:10 amNot with Don Sweeney heading that front office
9 years ago at 9:15 amTFM
9 years ago at 9:11 amDC sports laid a straight beat down on Philly sports over the last week, and it felt so good.
9 years ago at 9:12 amPreach
9 years ago at 2:28 pmthese are the same fans who booed Santa and threw beer at him at an Eagles game in the 70s.. thats kind of frat
9 years ago at 9:48 am