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fake flyers fans jumping on the wagon by deanna pringle paw prints reporter the philadelphia flyers have been in the spot -light locally since the start of the national hockey league playoffs out of nowhere these so -called flyers fans claim to know every player and their positions and yet they can t even name three players people like this amaze me and the rest of the flyer fan community one outraged fan tina connelly of quakertown pa said i honestly get so annoyed most of these bandwagon fans are girls because either they think it s cute to be a flyers fan or because they want to seem cool but they honestly just seem stupid when tina calls them stupid she is referring to their hockey or flyers ignorance during games also these fans have no idea what is going because they don t understand hockey they can t differentiate be tween a blue line and a blue-light special while on facebook one afternoon hours before a playoff game between the flyers and the penguins i noticed a girl s status that read i hate when my two favorite teams are playing each other and they are rivals i was completely outraged who roots for two teams in the same division i just simply commented lol in the back of my mind i was thinking really how come people are so dumb i felt like screaming you are not a fan on the upside real fans are showing their flyers spirit in many ways qchs junior christian schnitzler demonstrated his fandom by going to game 2 in the flyers-devils series schnitzler said there was a lot of booing towards the devil fans as they walked to their seats during game 2 in the second series schnitzler and his friend connor floyd sat in the nosephoto by connor floyd photo taken at the wells fargo center in bleed seats but they experienced philadelphia pa christian schnitzler is the playoffs schnitzler also holding the playoff shirt the center gave out during game 2 for fake see p 2

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page 2 paw prints may 2012 fake fans need to study up continued from page 1 says games are expensive i spent $19.50 on water french fries and chicken fingers additionally a single ticket in schnitzler s section cost $118 but when you are a fan you sacrifice for the team goalie ilya bryzgalov from the flyers has been up and down throughout the regular season and the playoffs when schnitzler was asked for his opinion on him he said if he has his mind set in the game he does thi s well at t photo he w grap 201 schnitzler showed faith in the goalie hw el p fly 2 team ls farg as tak hoto b which represents a true flyers fan ers s pl o ce en by y dea ayin nter dea nna the big question is what is g ar oetn dec nna pr pringl schnitzler s opinion on the bandhe peei eng mber 8 ngle wagon fans in quakertown they uins th and should actually try and pay attention to the the game and be a better flyers fan he said i believe many people could agree with schnitzler overall all true fans can come to a conclusion that bandwagon fans can all get under our skin but at the end of the game we just all want the flyers to win and be supporting fans for our fly guys but if the fake fans honestly care for the game then there would not be so much tension between the real fans and the bandwagon fans tian chris oto by chnitzler ph s ells the w o was at taken the phot photo enter eat c an s s fargo om christi fr taken sho t bein of a t photo v c ga by his favo hyperac hristian christi a rite t nh ive flye was see n schn l te itzle rs fa no am on n che n tv r eri n g

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