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INSANE Deals on Flyers Tickets This Week

The Flyers are back from the All-Star break and sit in fourth place in the Eastern Conference with 63 points. Three home games coming up this week: Winnipeg, Nashville and New Jersey. Crossing Broad Tickets has you covered for all of them.

Winnipeg: Make an offer for tickets to tomorrow night’s game between now and 7 p.m tonight using our new ticket buying platform. Only offer what you want to pay. You can save over 50% off face value! This is the most aggressive deals we’ve had in a while. GONE.

You can also shop normally for tickets to the Jets game-- tickets start as low $25.

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Nashville: Make an offer to save up to 50% off. Here’s a guide for what to offer:

1-star - $35

2-star - $55

3-star - $60

4-star - $64

5-star - $100

Must-click link right here.

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As we’ve told you before, these deals work like Hotwire does for hotels: You make an offer on tickets in a location where you’d like to sit, and if your offer is accepted, the tickets are yours. 

We continue to receive great feedback on these deals, so make sure to check them out. There are never any fees and tickets are shipped promptly.

You can also buy tickets the old fashioned way for all three games (Jets, Predators, Devils) starting at $23 right here.

The NFL Had a Bit of Trouble Spelling "Philadelphia" on Pro Bowl T-Shirts

Doh.

H/T to reader Chris

This is What Citizens Bank Park Looked Like Earlier Today

- this is where I toiled around with a lame grass-on-the-field joke, but decided to refrain -

Earlier today, media types shared some ground level pictures of the playing surface at Citizens Bank Park, where crews are replacing the turf that was ripped up by the Winter Classic with a hybrid Riviera Bermudagrass (details of which can be seen in this video). The above picture was tweeted by (@DirtBike_Beezy)... who was apparently working down at the ballpark or something.

Anyway, grass soon. Then we can play ball. - there it is -

Report: Pat Burrell to Retire

Sad day. MLBTradeRumors.com reports that Pat Burrell will officially retire. 

Back in November, Burrell told the Associated Press that he was likely done, but it seems we can expect an official announcement shortly.

Photo: Barstool

Now seems like as good a time as ever to honor Pat by reminding you of his existence as The Machine and the story of Max Talbot bringing girls back to Bat’s old Rittenhouse condo last year. Our friends at Drinker's will hold a moment of silence at around 1:53 tonight. We will miss you, Pat.

Evan Turner Gets Real With Magic Johnson on Twitter

Sometimes professional athletes pretend not to care about what outsiders, pundits, scriptuals and talking heads have to say about their (or their team’s) performance. But, sometimes, they do care.

Yesterday, Evan Turner took to the Tweets to fire a, um, threat at Magic Johnson, who was about to give his (long-awaited?) Top 5 Teams in the East list:

Oh. Shit. It just got real. Anything but the documentary, bro.

Alas, Magic wrongly excluded the Sixers from his top five by instead putting the Celtics on the list, and we now fully expect that Beaker will be doing some serious iTunes cleansing today. The horror.

Michael Vick Would Like to Become Sean Avery

Photo: Bob Grotz, Daily Times

Well, he won’t turn white despite ESPN’s best efforts, but you get the point-- Michael Vick would like to become a fashionista. Happy Monday, folks.

The always reliable NY Post reports the following: 

A source tells us that a publicist for the NFL star “is asking around for Fashion Week invites.” It sounds like Vick is keen to develop links with the fashion world by following in the footsteps of Amar’e Stoudemire, who sat front row at Tommy Hilfiger Fall 2011 and later inked a deal to design a fashion line with Rachel Roy. But we’re told Vick, who isn’t known for his sartorial sense, hasn’t quite been besieged with invites to sit with Anna Wintour and company. One Fashion Week insider told us, “Curious who will have him.” 

 

Right. I’m not even sure what this means exactly, but I can’t imagine fashion designers are lining up to be affiliated with an ex-con. Who knows, though, stranger things have happened. We’ll keep an eye out for QB 7 sitting alongside a runway somewhere.

H/T to our friend HughE Dillon of PhillyChitChat.com for keep an eye on all things gossip for you

More Scott Hartnell: Harts Doing Play-By-Play on CBC

Scott Hartnell week is not yet over, it seems. Here's video of Hartnell calling play-by-play from the bench during last night's All-Star Game.

Report: Juan Castillo Will Remain as Defensive Coordinator

Inquirer Eagles beat reporter Jeff McLane, who was once punched by his colleague Les Bowen, tweeted that the Eagles will hire Todd Bowles to be defensive backs coach and Juan Castillo will stay on as defensive coordinator.

Just a moment later (three minutes to be exact), Eagles mouthpiece Dave Spadaro tweeted: The Eagles have Todd Bowles in for an interview on Monday for a vacancy as a defensive backs coach in charge of cornerbacks. 

Thanks, Dave Spadaro. I think the cat is already out of the bag.

Bowen and Tim McManus confirmed McLane’s report.

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