In Lingua Veritas

Bri. 26-year-old writing grad student. Rabid hockey enthusiast. South Jersey native. Former seasonal Canadian resident — still has a soft spot for her hometown-away-from-home, Edmonton, Alberta. Likes to read. More than slightly obsessed with the Philadelphia Flyers, writing, basset hounds, Disney/Disney World, metal of all genres, and many varied geeky things. Made of 98 percent awesome.

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FOR LO THEY ARE RISEN

THEY ONCE MORE LIVE

OUR SAVIOR

THE PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

So can we all just take a minute to appreciate how awesome David Boreanaz is?

As much as I utterly despise Comcast, times like these where I realize just how much money they enable the Flyers to toss around makes paying those exorbitant bills and dealing with their horrible customer service almost worth it.

$Jody Shelley has singlehandedly redeemed the entire Flyers roster’s taste in music after it was nearly obliterated by the Nickelback fiasco. Thank you, Shells — rock on. \m/$

Jody Shelley has singlehandedly redeemed the entire Flyers roster’s taste in music after it was nearly obliterated by the Nickelback fiasco. Thank you, Shells — rock on. \m/

I’m starting to like this kid. He’s a brave one.

Happy birthday to Ilya Bryzgalov, a.k.a. Bryz, a.k.a. the best damn crazy Russian goaltender in the universe. Philly loves you!

Seriously, I do not understand some Pens fans. I just… don’t.

Going through my list of list of blocked users after I just started blocking people spamming the Flyers tags last night. The vast, VAST majority? Pens fans. Not Devils fans — you know, fans of the team who actually beat us last night. Pens fans. Smug, bitter Pens fans who fairly reek of schadenfreude, despite their own first-round exit.

I’m sorry, I know there are nice, reasonable Pens fans out there — I count a few very good IRL friends among their ranks — but the teenage Pens fangirls on Tumblr just seem to continually go out of their way to ensure that their team’s fanbase is viewed as vilely as possible. Last night’s gleeful hatefest did nothing to dispel that impression.

Mostly, I’m just legit disappointed. I don’t want to have this negative view of a fanbase, partly because, being from Philadelphia, I obviously know what it’s like to be maligned and partly because I’m not a hateful person in the slightest, but being on Tumblr this past season has given me such a dim view of Pens fans. Here’s hoping I’ll find a few more good, reasonable ones on here to help tip the balance. :\

Being a Flyers fan is hard.

But I will bleed and cry and suffer for this team as long as I draw breath, even if they lose this game, even if they never win the Cup in my lifetime. Because we’re Philadelphia. Because we’re Flyers Nation. And because you won’t find a team or a group of fans with more grit, more heart, or more loyalty this side of the border.

We love you, Flyboys. And we always will. No matter what.

Oh man, I love Bundy.