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by Alanah McGinley on 04/17/08 at 08:12 PM ET
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From NBC10.com,
In the column, tiled “Beaten To the Punch,” Wise called the club “an instant repudiation of what (Commissioner) Gary Bettman wanted the league to become” and “a reminder of the NHL’s pugilistic past that just won’t go away.”
“They flat-out market and sell violence here, sanctioned, unbridled assaults disguised as sport,” Wise wrote. He also said, “Many of the women and children in the crowd looked as if they could be security for Megadeth.”
The Flyers planned to distribute 20,000 copies of the article at Thursday night’s game, but the Post sent a cease-and-desist order. So, what did the Flyers do? They put the article up on the big screen over the ice surface, Clark reported.
One Flyers public relations official also wore a long-haired wig and a black shirt with the heavy metal band’s name emblazoned across his back Thursday night.
Read Mike Wise’s original article [link may require free reg.] that appeared in yesterday’s Washington Post.
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So a newspaper requested that an article that they published be censored?
As for Wise himself, I have to agree he is a pale imitation of Kornheiser who is no great intellect in matters of hockey or sports in general, but more adept at a populist musings.
Posted by Hockey1919 from Montreal on 04/18/08 at 10:27 AM ET
I love it! Mike Wise did the Flyers a huge favor.... although his writing is average at best, we Flyers fans need very little to get Flyer’d up, and so we say thank you!! I will attend tonight’s game 6 wearing a t-shirt that reads ‘Megadeth Security’ and a Megadeth skeleton w/the stanley cup superimposed in his hands.... thanks, mike, for the inspiration!
Oh, and we might be brutal, but we know hockey and when a newspaper tries to censor the publication of their writing, we know they’re losers.
Posted by FlyersJJ from Philly on 04/21/08 at 10:23 AM ET
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I read the column Tuesday night and expected it to show up here way before this. It’s mostly satire, but dull, ineffective satire. Wise plays something of a goofball, and a pale-imitation Tony Kornheiser, whose spot in the Post sports section he essentially took over. The problem for Wise is that the satire reveals a deep ignorance of hockey. Which isn’t surprising, since Wise only started covering the Caps this season the final week of the season. He’s as much of a bandwagoner as a lot of the fans; only we get to see his ignorance in print.
Posted by Blackcloud on 04/17/08 at 10:42 PM ET