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WHO SAID WE CAN’T GET THINGS DONE IN THIS COUNTRY? WE’RE FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHT TO LIVE, TO EXIST.

We told you last week the Flyers were indeed considering bringing back the Ice Girls. Tonight, it became official. After the Ice Men were booed off the ice during the first few preseason games, tonight the Flyers announced, with this video on the scoreboard, that they’re bringing the girls back, baby. I don’t even know how to react, but I feel like we should all run around like Iraqis with our purple thumbs in the air. Be proud of yourselves, Flyers fans, you cast a vote for change, and change you will get… by way of more of exactly the same.

The decision to cut the Ice Girls was a bad one. The Flyers blinked in the face of (non-)public pressure, because one or two former Ice Girls complained about conditions that… sounded exactly what they probably knowingly signed up for. And wave of political correctness briefly swept the hockey landscape after the San Jose Sharks were criticized for putting their Ice Girls in skimpy outfits. As if cheerleaders aren’t a widely accepted thing. It made no sense. The boos were heard, loud and clear, and tonight, we celebrate our Independence Day. Or something like that. Someone get me Bill Pullman.

Apply to be an Ice Girl here.