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15 Years Ago This Week, the Flyers Handed Out Kate Smith Shirts for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals
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It’s really slow on a spring Friday, so I went back into the Crossing Broad archives to see if anything happened during the first week of June, 5, 10, or 15 years ago, and came across a 2010 Maestro post titled Flyers to Give Out Kate Smith Shirts for Game 3:
Wrote Kyle Scott: “An anonymous source (ohh the intrigue) at the Flyers sent this along to us. They will be giving out orange t-shirts as per the usual, but tonight, they will be adorned with Kate Smith to bring some much needed luck to the Flyers. Bad. Ass.”
Sure enough, the Flyers, down 2-0 in the series after a pair of one-goal losses in Chicago, won game three in overtime. It was a 4-3 victory with goals from Danny Briere, Scott Hartnell, Ville Leino, and then Claude Giroux with the OT winner. Chris Pronger played 32 minutes and G had a pair of assists to go along with his game-winner.
In the 15 years since, the Flyers have not sniffed the Stanley Cup Finals, or the Eastern Conference Finals, while Kate Smith was cancelled, her statue covered in a black tarp and removed from outside of the arena formerly known as Wells Fargo Center. Now it’s somewhere in storage, I think? Did we ever get that confirmed? I thought someone reported back in the day that they moved it into a garage somewhere. I’ll ask around.
If you’d like this shirt, by the way, I found one on Ebay for $75.
Oddly enough, there was another Flyers apparel story that appeared on Crossing Broad on June 6th. This was 2015, when some guy showed up to the Belmont Stakes wearing a signed Smarty Jones jersey:
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com