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Old 05-04-2010, 11:15 AM
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For all you Flyer/Hockey fans

HBO has a great show airing tonight at 10pm about the 'Broad Street Bullies'...should be great!

http://www.hbo.com/sports/#/sports/broad-street-bullies
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Old 05-04-2010, 11:23 AM
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Old 05-04-2010, 11:34 AM
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will watch this. Supposed to excellent. They still talk about when they made the Russians quit in mid game
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Old 05-04-2010, 12:09 PM
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Philly's brawling wasn't embraced by the rest of the league. Critics saw it as a thuggish style that cheapened the game. Clement recalls in the film how the Flyers were "loved in one part of the world and hated everywhere else."
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Old 05-05-2010, 06:39 AM
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Old 05-05-2010, 08:40 AM
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Philly's brawling wasn't embraced by the rest of the league. Critics saw it as a thuggish style that cheapened the game. Clement recalls in the film how the Flyers were "loved in one part of the world and hated everywhere else."
Actually most of the league loved it Leaf, Ziegler (commish) just had to put on an unhappy face due to its perceived "political incorrectness", but as for the NHL and most of its owners, people loved it and the fans did too and the NHL received as much coverage as ever when those broadstreet bullies went at it. Marketers say it reeled in as many fans to the game in America as any marketing or pr campaigns, (or lackthereof), that the NHL ran in the 70s.

When Clement was speaking, the "one part of the world" was the hockey world and its new found fans in America. The other parts were other the liberal leftists in media and in politics who tried to get their name on the front page by boning up against this form of aggression in sport. didn't work.

Even today those types still exist, but this form of hockey will always be accepted and loved by many, in fact up here they are pumping the "hatred" between two old rivals in the bost/philly series and referring (with a ton of footage I might add) to the days of the broadstreet bullies and crazy ass bruins brawls. And they were epic. Loved 'em.
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