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The Flyers Should Consider Banning Main Liners and Only Allowing Mongrels into the Building for Game 6

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Apr 28th, 2026 · 11:57 AM EDT

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Tweeted this out after Game 5, and after sleeping on it, I’m thinking the Flyers should seriously consider:

Flyers should kick the Main Liners out of the building on Wednesday night and only allow mongrels in

— Kevin Kinkead (@Kevin_Kinkead) April 28, 2026

To be fair, Pagan tossed this idea around when he was with Crossing Broad. He’d often talk about mongrels, which is a term of endearment, like the 1983 movie starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. Mongrel is a compliment. It means you’re a rowdy and committed fan, not some suit and tie guy sitting in a luxury box, eating caviar or whatever they do up there. If you get the blue collar fans in the building on Wednesday night, you’ve created an edge before the puck even drops. They’ll be so Flyered and liquored up that it will osmotically convey jam to the Flyers and get them playing with the requisite speed and physicality.

Also, let’s be honest with ourselves –

Philly sports fans are great. Some of the best in the world. But you know as well as I do that if the Penguins score first on Wednesday night, that building is going dead silent. You’ll be able to hear a pin drop. And while it’s true that fans across all spectrums reciprocate what’s given to them by a team, we can’t be getting fucking rattled just because the Yinzers scored a goal. Enough with that. It’s the #1 reason why we need 19,000 drunken assholes in the building on Wednesday night, because they aren’t going to get all soft if the Flyers go down 1-0 in the first period. They’ll keep the energy going no matter what and get behind the boys. We can’t have this reactionary shit killing the vibes during a big playoff game.

With that being said, we’re breaking it down into two lists. This is open to interpretation, and we will consider updates, but it’s looking like this at the current moment:

Here’s who is allowed in

• any card-carrying member of a labor union
• all of South Philly
• all of North Philly
• all of Northeast Philly (attendance is highly encouraged)
• the River Wards (Bridesburg, Port Richmond, and the old school part of Fishtown, not the yuppie part)
• Manayunk and Roxborough
• Delco residents who live east of Sproul and south of Manoa Road (give or take a few blocks)
• Delco residents in the Chester/Marcus Hook corridor, basically if you’re west of Sproul Road you have to be south of 95
• anybody from Lower Bucks, especially Bensalem
• South Jersey roughly up to the Haddon Field/Heights/Township border
• all New Jersey neighborhoods that touch the Delaware River
• all Berks County towns except for Wyomissing
• anybody who vacations in Wildwood
• Lansdale, but strictly the borough only, not Towamencin or Upper Gwynedd
• Bridgeport and Norristown (no KOP)
• anybody within the Pennridge School District lines
• all fans who take the BSL to the games
• anybody with a criminal record

Here’s who is not allowed in

• Main Line residents extending up into the Malvern area
• people in the Blue Bell / Ambler region
• anybody working in finance or who is full-time work from home
• all private school kids (current students + alumni)
• anybody from Chester County living beyond the Downington/Coatesville corridor
• Society Hill / Rittenhouse Square / Fitler, basically anybody currently living between South and Callowhill in the city
• all lawyers
• the entirety of the 08057 zip code (Moorestown)
• anybody who wears a collared shirt to a sporting event (or anything from Vineyard Vines)
• all media members (gotta fill up the press box with mongrels and create any advantage we can get)
• anyone looking at their phone or doing any kind of “influencer” or content creator work
• children – sorry kid, this is the playoffs

Undetermined / could use some feedback

• Delaware

Thoughts? We have 36 hours to refine the list. This not a complete list by any means. We’re willing to hear arguments for and against certain neighborhoods located inside of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area before we submit our work to Spectacor.

Flyers in 6.