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Broad Street Bully: From bully babes to tattooed true believers

I'M BROAD STREET Bully, inviting you to please keep e-mailing your favorite stories and photos of your Flyered-up families and puck-passionate pets to:

DAVID MAIALETTI / Staff photographer
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I'M BROAD STREET Bully, inviting you to please keep e-mailing your favorite stories and photos of your Flyered-up families and puck-passionate pets to:

bully@phillynews.com

LITTLE SAMMY'S SHINER: Paul and Heather D'Antonio of Deptford are so Flyered up that they almost named their son after Keith Primeau because Paul was blown away by the great Flyer captain's domination in the 2004 playoffs.

Instead, they named the kid Samuel after his Flyers-loving grandpa, Paul's dad, a season-ticket holder for 39 years.

The little tyke's uncle, Chris D'Antonio, reports that Sammy is not yet 2, "but the orange and black are already in his soul. Sammy sleeps with his Flyers hockey stick, and when he watches a game, he raises the stick above his head and yells, 'Scoooore!' "

Chris writes that when Sammy fell and got his first shiner on the same day that Ian "Lappy" Laperriere took a puck to the eye, the two pictures were Photoshopped together to make it appear that Sammy is holding a postgame press conference with one of his Flyers heroes.

DYED FLYERS DIEHARDS: Last night, at center ice, section 213, Eric Rothstein, 40, from Northeast Philadelphia, proudly explained the Flyers tattoos all over his body.

"That's Bobby Clarke scoring the winning goal in overtime of the 1974 final against Boston," said the lifelong fan rolling up the left sleeve of his jersey.

"And that's Bernie Parent," he said, rolling up the right sleeve.

Flyers logos dominate his chest and both legs. But Rothstein's crowning glory is his head - an orange mohawk with Flyers tattoos on both shaved sides.

Rothstein said that he attends every home game. "I've come here with swine flu," he said. "I've come here with a 102-degree fever. I'll be dead before I miss a game.

"If they lose, I need Prozac," Rothstein said. "I don't want to be around nobody. If they win, I'm a happy man."

KID DISSES CANADIENS: A week before his intended marriage, Kirk Coleman was treated by three fellow Montrealers - Joel Shugar, Lucas Tomalty and Nyan Narine - to an eight-hour drive and a night at Game 2. They all wore Montreal jerseys.

"All the security guards here told us, 'Be careful, we'll watch out for you,' " Coleman said smiling. "But the Flyers fans have showed us brotherly love."

"Except for the guys shouting, 'Go back where you came from!'" Shugar reminded him. "And the little kid who told us, 'You suck!' "