Garth goes off on Cryers fans

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I love Garth's blog and this is his best yet.

 

 

Go Sabres!!

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"A couple of thousand of you Flyer fans showed your fat, hairy, cellulite-riddled in public at the FU Center last night. And that`s just the Women in attendance! "

 

Classic! :lol:

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"A couple of thousand of you Flyer fans showed your fat, hairy, cellulite-riddled in public at the FU Center last night. And that`s just the Women in attendance! "

 

Classic! :lol:

 

I'm not seeing Garth's post about the Flyers Fans. Is Ek censoring him?

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Yeah. Ek responded to Garth defending the Philly fans and then a little later they were both gone.

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Yeah. Ek responded to Garth defending the Philly fans and then a little later they were both gone.

 

Well I can't post Garth's blog since it's been removed, but I can post Eklund's hor$e$hit reply.

 

I'd sure like to see what caused Ek's "off the charts" stupidity comment.

 

However, I must say there was a whole bunch of stupidity in Ek's blog itself.

 

No one was cheering in Buffalo because Umberger was down. They were cheering initially because of the hard check. Then they were cheering the scrum that ensued. When Umberber was helped off the ice, no one booed him! They gave him a respectful cheer and clap.

 

Now I don't doubt that regarding the Dumont incident in Philly that "not all the fans were cheering his injury." A majority probably were not. However, I wouldn't characterize it as "Very few were...". A very vocal minority were. The booing was quite audible on the TV the whole time Dumont was down and even when they were helping him off the ice. So I could estimate that at least 5-10% were. That was totally classless.

 

Anyhow, read Ek's post below.

 

Also, I'm very disappointed that Eklund is sensoring his website.

 

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Defending the Caveman

 

I am responding to Garth's Blog below. The Philadelphia sports fans

thing is ridiculously overblown. It is "off the charts" stupidity.

First off all the incidents (overblown as they have become) happened

at Eagle's games.. Someone in Buffalo should be able to relate.

When I was in Buffalo many locals said to me that they'd loved to go

to the HSBC, but you'd never take your kids to a Bill's game.

 

Flyers fans are not Eagles fans. They aren't. I have been in the

Spectrum and new building for some very emotional moments. You are

right that the Umberger hit was misrepresented and many of the Flyers

fans don't know that. It was played over and over again in the

pressbox, but only once on the ice...It was however replayed while

Umberger was still out for the count. A decision that I heard they

regretted in Buffalo.

 

The Flyers have given standing ovations to Mario Lemieux and intense

moments of silence for some of the players that we have lost. I was

also present soon after 9-11 for a preseason game vs. The Rangers

where the fans wouldn't let the players play because an address by

President Bush was on the Big Screen during the intermission. The

fans were silent and the players sat on their bench and respectfully

waited until the President had finished. Then players from both

teams then shook hands and the game was never finished. It was as

intense a moment as I have witnessed at a game. The Flyers fans

didn't carry on or boo...they applauded the decision, and we all

respectfully went home.

 

The reaction to Dumont was wrong, but not all the fans were cheering

his injury. Very few were...and had the Umberger truth been known

none would have. I have seen plenty of players, more hated than JP,

lay on the ice and get cheered when they got up or were helped

off...Flyers fans are not Eagles fans. And Eagles fans aren't as

bad as they are steryotyped to be either...

 

Was the Gauthier spear an intentional shot? I guess we'll never know

for sure, but Dennis has admitted when he cheap shotted players in

the past, and he wasn't even looking at JP. He swears it was an

accident and he felt bad about the hit.

 

Garth, there was an equal amount of people chearing when Umberger was

down in Buffalo, as there were when Dumont was down. And Lou Nolan,

our PA Announcer actually told those fans that cheared to show some

class.

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Well I can't post Garth's blog since it's been removed, but I can post Eklund's hor$e$hit reply.

 

I'd sure like to see what caused Ek's "off the charts" stupidity comment.

 

However, I must say there was a whole bunch of stupidity in Ek's blog itself.

 

No one was cheering in Buffalo because Umberger was down. They were cheering initially because of the hard check. Then they were cheering the scrum that ensued. When Umberber was helped off the ice, no one booed him! They gave him a respectful cheer and clap.

 

Now I don't doubt that regarding the Dumont incident in Philly that "not all the fans were cheering his injury." A majority probably were not. However, I wouldn't characterize it as "Very few were...". A very vocal minority were. The booing was quite audible on the TV the whole time Dumont was down and even when they were helping him off the ice. So I could estimate that at least 5-10% were. That was totally classless.

 

Anyhow, read Ek's post below.

 

Also, I'm very disappointed that Eklund is sensoring his website.

 

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Defending the Caveman

 

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Unfortunately I didn't save the Garth post, so I am going from memory here. Basically, the guy teed off on Gauthier and he teed off on the Filadelphia sports fan in general. He pretty much said both were neanderthals and deserved each other. It was a pretty long article and didn't hold many punches.

 

I do take exception with at least 1 thing that Eklund said. THE UMBERGER HIT WAS NOT SHOWN ON THE JUMBOTRON WHILE HE WAS LYING ON THE ICE. To state otherwise is, at best, misinformed or, at worst, an outright lie. Which, (I am assuming this is the same Eklund of "non-reliable hockey rumors are us Eklund") is pretty much par for the course.

 

I was interested though, in reading the Eklund response, to learn that he is a Phlyers fan. Figures.

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I was interested though, in reading the Eklund response, to learn that he is a Phlyers fan. Figures.

 

Oh definitely a Flyers fan. He takes his pseudonym/moniker/nom de plum from Pelle Eklund

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Oh definitely a Flyers fan. He takes his pseudonym/moniker/nom de plum from Pelle Eklund

So, what, if he were a Sabres fan he would have called himself Lacombe or McKenna? :blink:

 

What a dink.