Montreal Gazette sports columnist Pat Hickey walked out of the Sunday night Flyers game only to discover that “Philly’s fans [are] almost as bad as [Montreal] fans.”
That’s a kind way of putting it.
There in the Wachovia Center parking lot was Hickey’s Honda Accord with tires slashed, bug deflector ripped off, a hubcap broken, windows and trunk covered in beer and beer cans, and, worst of all, “some yahoo tore off my license plate.”
Hickey described the incident in Tuesday’s Gazette column, and also spoke to B101’s Morning Show with Tiffany and Michael this morning, calling the majority of damage “minor inconveniences.”
But the missing license plate may cause Hickey trouble with Customs, and ultimately prevent him from getting back into his country Wednesday. The radio station put out a plea: Return the man’s plates to the station and there will be no questions asked.
The 66-year-old journalist was mostly gracious in his narrative of the Philly fans actions by prefacing it all with his understanding of how fans anywhere can behave badly and his disapproval of the latest riot in Montreal following a Canadiens victory over Pittsburgh.
Although he casts the first stone at his own countrymen’s bad fan behavior, he does land a final, and perhaps deserved, blow on Philadelphia. After all, we may have expatriated the man for a while.
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“Prior to Game 1, the Flyers passed out T-shirts with the legend: Relentless in the pursuit of history,” Hickey wrote.
“Relentless in the pursuit of idiocy would be a better slogan for a city whose history includes abusing Santa Claus.”
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