1973-74 Philadelphia Flyers Stanley Cup Champs Team Signed Jersey JSA COA
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Who better to tell the story of the Broad Street Bullies than the man with the plan, Flyers owner Ed Snider:
"We had a bunch of little French-Canadian players, Andre Lacroix, Jean-Guy Gendron, and so forth. And the Plager brothers and Noel Picard terrorized us in Game 7 of our first playoff. That was one of the worst brawls I had ever seen. Some of our guys went down in a bloody heap after being suckerpunched. I looked at all this, and I couldn’t stand it. Then the next year we weren’t in the playoffs, but during the season we were being manhandled. So I said to [GM Keith Allen], 'Look, we’re an expansion team, we may not be able to skate, we may not have great players, but we can go out and get the toughest son-of-a-bitches in the world, and I don’t want to see our team ever get beat up again. I don’t give a goddamn about this having one policeman. Let’s have five or six.' And that’s the beginning of the Broad Street Bullies. That was our modus operandi. We didn’t get beat up anymore. I didn’t invent fighting in hockey, and I don’t necessarily love it. I’m just saying I don’t want anybody to kick the s--- out of a Flyer ever again."
All the living team members reunited to add their "6-9"-strength signatures to this Flyers "BULLIES" jersey (NM, LE #13/74): Rick MacLeish, Bill Barber, Bernie Parent, Gary Dornhoefer, Andre Dupont, Dave Schultz, Jimmy Watson, Ed Van Impe, Bobby Clarke, Bob Kelly, Joe Watson, Ross Lonsberry, Mel Bridgman, Simon Nolet, Don Saleski, Orest Kindrachuk, Bobby Taylor, Tom Bladon, Terry Crisp, The uniform numbers are mostly notated in an unidentified hand, as are the names of Fred Shero (d.1990), Barry Ashbee (d.1977) and Bill Flett (d.1999). There's a Dave Schultz authentication hologram, as well as an full letter JSA COA
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