Flyers Fans Mercilessly Boo Sarah Palin

The Wachovia Center must have been filled with the liberal left wing gotcha media who's so in the can for Barack Obama on Saturday night. Because from the sounds of it, everyone in attendance was not happy to see Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin drop the puck before the Philadelphia Flyers' home opener against the New York Rangers.

The organizers of the photo-op tried every trick in the book to counter any booing. Cute little girl in home team jersey? Check. Palin's knocked up 16 year old daughter? Check. Music so loud that you can't even hear yourself think to drown out the boos? Check. But even with all that, the booing still came through loud and clear.

Really this couldn't have been too much of a surprise coming from Philadelphia sports fans. After all, this is the same city of fans who booed Santa Claus and threw snow balls at him. In addition they also once cheered as an opposing team’s star player lay motionless on the turf after sustaining what turned out to be a career-ending neck injury, threw batteries at a player who refused to sign with the Phillies baseball team and last month jeered their own mascot for dropping a foul ball.

The real question is if Sarah Palin was at the Wachovia Center dropping the ceremonial first puck, then who was in Alaska watching the Russians? Uh-oh.

Palin Puck Drop

All those Joe Sixpacks, mavericks, and hockey moms in Philadelphia are in for a real treat as Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin will drop the ceremonial first puck when the Philadelphia Flyers open the regular season against the New York Rangers on Saturday.

Palin, the Alaska governor and self-described "hockey mom," will join the winner of a team promotion for the "Ultimate Hockey Mom" to drop the puck.

Last month, Palin visited a Philadelphia bar with Flyers owner Ed Snider who has donated money to Republican presidential nominee John McCain's campaign. Drunken times with a millionaire business owner? I smell a scandal! Get me the Obama campaign on the phone!

"Because of the tremendous amount of publicity she has brought to our sport, we invited the most popular hockey mom in North America to our home opener to help us get our season started," Snider said in a team statement Wednesday. "We are very excited she has accepted our offer and we are very proud of the publicity she is generating for hockey moms and the sport of hockey."

Well as long as she just drops the puck and doesn't say anything so that I don't have to hear that grating voice or any of those terrible folksy jokes when she's trying too hard to relate to the common man (or Joe Sixpack as she'd say) then I'm fine with that. Seriously, why does she sound like a character from the movie Fargo? I thought she was from Alaska, not North Dakota or Minnesota.

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