by Mike Prince Lately, all I keep hearing is how superior of a team the Chicago Blackhawks are to the Flyers. All these so-called “experts” keep telling me that the ‘Hawks will win in five games – six at most. In fact, the brooms might be brought out next week. Hell, some ‘Hawks “fans” will [More…]
by Mike Prince “Don’t worry, when it gets hot out, Ryan Howard will be crushing the ball. They’re always like this in April and May.” Philadelphia Phillies fans – ones that have been enduring unexplainable random slumps and early season struggles for as long as the team has been a contender – have heard those [More…]
by Kevin Franklin And so it begins… The Philadelphia Flyers have vanquished the Montreal Canadiens, four games to one. All talk of another Canadiens comeback have been silenced. It was mojo versus mojo and one of them had to say “uncle” and bring their fan base to a brick wall splatter. Fortunately for Flyers fans, [More…]
by Kevin Franklin I admit it – I’m a sadist. Whenever the Eagles win, I spend a good portion of my Internet time that evening and the next day reading through the online newspapers of whichever team they vanquished. I enjoy the post-game quotes of the defeated and the hair-pulling columnists either trying to rationalize [More…]
by Kevin Franklin As Lucifer once sang through Mick Jagger’s nightcrawler lips, “Please allow me to introduce myself.” I am what you might call a typical hardcore fan. I’ve been a diehard Flyers, Eagles and Phillies fan ever since the early 1970s. I have rarely ever missed a game in person, on television, radio or [More…]
by Kevin Franklin It’s just a game. We, as sports fans, pour an incredible amount of energy into rooting for our teams. We plan vacations around them, reschedule weddings and call in sick. There is something intrinsically therapeutic about sports which the non-sports fan could never understand. To them, it IS just a game, and [More…]
It was one of those warm afternoons in Atlanta and the huge fan down the far end of the dugout droned on in a loud manner. Members of the Braves infield worked on grounders as the grounds crew slowly went about other business. In this setting, the Phillies dugout had a dreamlike quality to it [More…]
by Mike Radano Many years ago, some bigwig under the leadership of Ted Turner down in the Atlanta offices of TBS and TNT had a gem of an idea. Take a movie, good or bad, and just ram it down the throats of viewers. Show the same big budget flick three straight nights and two [More…]