I realize that most people forgot that a professional hockey league exists anymore. That includes the majority of people in Philadelphia because the team was so incredibly pathetic this year. So pathetic in fact that the marketing department pretty much admitted it. Just two weekends ago, as I was in a cab driving up I-95 from the airport to my house, I snapped this pic of a billboard on the side of the highway, which I realize is terrible quality. (Ladies and gentlemen, the power of the Treo.)

Just as the NHL playoffs are beginning, and long after the Flyers have been eliminated from even fantasizing about holding the Stanley Cup, the team decides that the best way to get people to buy tickets is to tell everyone that, while we may have the least intimidating team in hockey, we have “The Most Intimidating Fans in Hockey”. A once storied franchise has only one thing to offer prospective spectators: the spectators themselves. I guess that’s one way to go.

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