Palin booed at NHL game in Philadelphia

Source: CNN Ticker



PHILADELPHIA (CNN) – Although many Philadelphia Flyers fans cheered and clapped as Sarah Palin took to the ice at the Wachovia Center on Saturday night to drop the ceremonial puck kicking off this town's NHL season, their warm reception was no match for the 90 seconds of sustained booing that rumbled through the arena, drowning out most of the cheers in support of the Republican vice presidential nominee.

As Palin stepped onto the ice before a capacity crowd to drop the puck, joined by her daughters Willow and Piper, the arena's jumbotron flashed a futile message to the thousands of notoriously harsh Philadelphia sports fans in attendance.

"Flyers fans, show Philadelphia's class and welcome America's #1 hockey mom, Sarah Palin," the massive electronic message board pleaded, to little effect. Booing quickly erupted when the smiling candidate emerged from a tunnel leading onto the ice, muffling the applause of any Palin supporters in the crowd.

Some in the audience simply gave her a thumbs down gesture. Others called her names.

Palin spent about a minute and a half on center ice, posing for pictures with Flyers captain Mike Richards and New York Rangers assistant captain Scotty Gomez, an Alaska native. The crowd commotion was sustained for her entire time in the rink.



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Surprised that CNN reported it so straight.

A great book full of practical wisdom that I read when I was running for Congress.

"Never, ever allow yourself to be introduced at a sporting event. You will be booed. And that's the only thing the media will report".

He had gotten introduced at a Red Sox game, and was booed.

... she might have been saved this embarrassment.

Makes sense when you consider sports events are inherently antagonistic and actually encourage rabid public expression of it.

Everyone knows that Phillyfans(any sport) and Raderfans are a different breed. Even if Palin was intelligent, honest and pure as the driven snow she would've been booed. (Eagle fans once booed Santa Clause, lol) But seeing this chick get booed was great.

booed Santa Claus? Those sick bastards!!!!11!

The guy who replaced him was skinny and totally untrained, and the halftime show was a disaster. The man himself says to this day, that if he'd been in the stands, he would've been booing, too.

Quit perpetuating this myth about Eagles fans being "bad" because they "booed Santa". They booed a crappy halftime show, that's all.

A lie is halfway around the world before the truth puts on its boots....

Hearing Mooselini get booed would be music to my ears!

Fuckin' asshole.

Poor barracuda.

And to subject her children to that.

She is one sick fuck.

and the audio mix heavily favored the music.

piped in applause with the music. Pathetic.

:hi:

if'n I haven't before

There are several links around here somewhere. Or you can look on Youtube for "Hockeymom gets booed at Flyers game". In some clips it's hard to hear the boos but there is one where you can hear it very clearly over the loud music.

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What was interesting is that they played some music and piped in applause. You could tell it was amplified because you could see some of the crowd in the background and maybe two of ten were applauding. That drowned out the booing, unfortunately, on TV at least. But I heard the booing and cheered.

but I was able to see the people doing the thumbs down gesture.

We don't do that sort of thing.

We are talking about Philadelphia sports fans. It would be more like "will someone f-ing shoot her already"?

....that's what the Bible says.

sometimes.

Are we having fun yet?

she forgets that Obama/Biden supporters aren't full of hate... she needs to worry about her own party

the bigger leagues. Were these kids expecting such fevor? Not seen any Video, Hopefully the kids were prepared.

to the point I wonder why... esp since the rallies are escalating in their violent ton

You know what kind if mischief kids can get into when they're kept out of school during the school year. Just ask Bristol.

Regards

where Caribou Barbie plots to bring her 7-yo daughter out with her to stop the booing. Poor kid. Them's family values for you :eyes:

most moms would shield their young children from the possibility of being booed.
She can't fade back into obscurity fast enough.

Using their kids as human shields. Yes, I'm comparing Caribou Barbie to Saddam Hussein!

http://www.phillysbest.com/

Yummy cheese steak (wit or witout onions), Tastykakes and Soda (not pop). :P

I wonder what they called her......

:think:

and she is the only person that makes me spontaneously utter the "C" word....

:rofl:

I'll give you three guesses.

Now, yelling, "OH, I HATE THE COLONEL WITH HIS WEE BEADY EYES!" in a Scottish brogue loudly enough for the entire stadium to hear when the opposing team's coach (who looked like Colonel Sanders) stepped out onto the ice, and there was just a few seconds of silence - that's classy.

That's a, "So, I Married an Axe Murderer," quote by the way (Mike Myers movie).

TlalocW

a chimical in his chicken that meks yuuuu crrrrave it fortnightly, smartass!"

"HEED! MUUUUUUUUV!"

Love that movie.

:D

:rofl:

Tut-tut

:bounce:

Interesting, one of our local news channels mentioned Failin dropping the puck (or whatever it is she did), but nothing about boos. Another channel mentioned it but added that she WAS booed. :wtf:

that she got an 'icy welcome" and was booed

PHILADELPHIA -- Those famously churlish Philly fans can't hide behind the urban legends. The truth is out there: They simply booed Santa Claus.

Frank Olivo -- the erstwhile Santa in question -- wasn't drunk, nor was his red suit in tatters that December day in 1968 when he walked onto the field for the halftime show, only to be met by a chorus of jeers and a snowball fusillade from Eagles fans.

But by all accounts, they had cause for an ugly mood.

"The fans carried on like that because the Eagles were horrible," Olivo said.

The antics at halftime of the Eagles' final regular-season game, beamed around the country on Howard Cosell's national sports show, helped cement Philadelphia's reputation for having rogue, rowdy sports fans.

"There's nothing that sounds worse than throwing snowballs at Santa," said sports radio host Glen Macnow of WIP-AM in Philadelphia. "It's like spitting on Miss America."

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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=nfl&id=1980880

Really, could no one in the McCain camp predict what was going to happen? Maybe they were trying to build some sympathy towards her or something?

(from Fark)


:rofl:

(substitute sarah for linda)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6FPadJvflU

I flipped on the beginning of the Flyers game before going to dinner, expecting to see a recap of the Palin puck-drop, but instead they showed it live, just before the game began. Anyone with Center Ice could see it.

And let me tell you, the booing was LOUD. Fans were visibly upset, on-camera, that Palin was invited to this game, and they definitely hit a crescendo of boos whenever the blaring music paused for the PA announcer to say a few words.

I hate the Flyers, but I now respect the hell out of their fans.

As a Pittsburgher, Philly is our natural rival in football as well as hockey. This showing of real emotion and honesty has given me a reason to respect the fans there and to root for them, except when they play the Steelers or Pens of course. Did you notice, no racial slurs, no shouts of traitor, just the good old Bronx cheer. Good for them.

ARG!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/11/hockey-mom-palin-greeted_n_133911.html

The little one, the five year old who was photoshopped into flipping her brother the finger, is on the ice with her. Granted, the mom shouldn't have used her as a political prop, but even if your mother's the antichrist, it can't be too great to watch your mom get booed by 10,000 people. She does smile and wave, though...

Sad, but true.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7417470&mesg_id=7417470

in high heels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1VHSQV0yn8

:rofl:

telling him to keep his politics to himself and that he should have had Tina Fey there instead of Palin. Fey would have been cheered. I told him it was his worst public relations disaster. What was he thinking in a 90% Democratic city? Plus everyone saw him on tv at Palin's rally at the Irish Pub the night of the first Presidential debate. What a moron.

Obama gave a great speech today in Philadelphia, the placed was stuffed downtown there.

They made a hell of a lot of noise discovered by ABC Now.

Ed Snider is an idiot!

I am a big hockey fan. And I HATE these kind of stunts before games. This includes when the PA guy says, "please rise to honor America with our national anthem," and then they sing "God Bless America" first. That is BS, plain and simple.

So, rather than inviting Obama instead of Palin, Snider should have just remembered that this is a HOCKEY GAME, not a campaign rally. This wasn't about who gives the best speech; it was about the fact that those fans paid for a sports ticket, not to be props in a photo-op for a political tool.

We haven't been able to afford a ticket to a Penguins game in a while, come to think of it. I don't want to sports OR religion to be any part of this.

I am sick and tired of all these sporting events trying to force people to listen to a pregame show that tries to force fans into faux patriotism. I stopped going to baseball games because of it.

:rofl:

The town that boo'd SANTA CLAUSE AND SARAH PALIN!


BwaHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That must have been really embarrassing for the owner, a big GOP supporter.

:rofl: America's :rofl: Hockey :rofl: Mom! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/11/palin-drops-puck-at-flyers-game-receives-mixed-reaction/

October 11th, 2008 7:56 PM Eastern

Palin Drops Puck at Flyer’s Game Receives Mixed Reaction
by Shushannah Walshe
PHILADELPHIA –-

Sarah Palin has become known as “The Most Famous Hockey Mom in America” for her constant referral to herself on the stump as “just a hockey mom.” This evening, she met that title head on by dropping the first puck of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey season in their opener with the New York Rangers.

A carpet was laid down and Palin, dressed in a beige trench, walked on to the ice joined by her daughters Willow and Piper. The GOP Vice-Presidential nominee said at an earlier fundraiser that she would stop some of the booing from the rowdy Philadelphia fans by putting her seven year old daughter, Piper in a Flyers jersey. She said, “How dare they boo Piper!”

Her secret weapon may have worked. The crowd in this staunchly Democratic city –visited today by Barack Obama—gave Palin mixed reviews. There were audible boos over the very loud music and some in the crowd had their thumbs down, but there were also many people clapping and cheering the GOP Vice-Presidential nominee.

Once she got on the ice she met the woman who won the “Ultimate Hockey Mom” contest, Cathy O’Connell from Erdenheim, Pennsylvania and patted her on the back. Flyers captain Mike Richards skated over to shake Palin’s hand and fellow Alaskan and New York Ranger Scotty Gomez greeted his Governor who gave him a kiss on the cheek. Palin then leaned over for the face off between the two players and dropped the puck.

The Palins joined by the “Ultimate Hockey Mom” walked off the ice waving to the crowd.

Obama was greetly so warmly at a local diner the other day - Bruce entertained tens of thousands for free on the Parkway -- and now these great Philadelphians booed Sarah Palin.

I was sorry her children were there. These fans booed Santa -- so there was no hope of them holding back, despite jumbotron signs pleading with them to be nice.

Philly is a working class city hit VERY hard by the policies of Republicans. I'm from Philly. She walked into the lion's den just then. And Daniel she ain't.

Way to go fellow Pennsylvanians!

:rofl::

Excellent :D

... i never thought I would say this. THANK YOU FLYER fans.


FINAL SCORE RANGERS 4-3 WIN


GO OBAMA and GO RANGERS

Anyone who has ever been to a hockey game could tell you this is a baaaaaad idea.

Good job guys, nice to know Philly's bullshit detectors are still in working order!

Good job guys, nice to know Philly's bullshit detectors are still in working order!

I'll have to admit I was a little worried that the fans were NOT going to BOO enough. Many of the fans are from south Jersey. I have heard more then a few state their reasons for liking hockey to be that there is "no pepper in my salt." Plus, lots of corporate seats. But, they did BOO. And you could tell Snyder/Comcast was trying desperately to hide it. I am pissed that they injected politics into my sports. I watch sport so I don't have to think about politics. Fuck Snyder. May have to go back to boycotting the team.

Good for the Flyer fans

This was going to be a disaster of epic proportions. If I was a McCain aide sitting in a meeting and this idea was brought up I would have said: "Palin? At a hockey game in Philly? You'd have to be crazy!!" That this was even entertained at all tells me they don't know much. A liberal populace with notoriously prickly hockey fans, plus lots of beer and a national joke/RW nutjob from a small town who demonizes people from big cities.

There was no possible way this was going to work out well for her. No way.

McCain might have the dumbest campaign I have ever seen. After this race is over these guys should just retire from politics and go into something else. They suck.

Bringing America's favorite hockey mom to a hockey game in a state that the Republicans need to win the election seems, on the surface, to be an ingenious move. But when one thinks about it a little and applies more than a little common sense, it is, as you have pointed out, clearly a catastrophe in the making.

I think the problem with the McCain campaign is that they actually BELIEVE their own bullshit. Since they truly believe that Palin is America's Favorite Hockey Mom, they thought that this was a great idea without any further thought on the matter. It's similar to how they chose Palin in the first place. That whole decision was based on the fraudulent idea that there were disgruntled Hillary supporters who would rush out in droves to vote for a woman for President, no matter who the hell it was.

"Ok, let's do it!" then run off and never think about it more than a few seconds. It's bizarre. I think it comes from the top. McCain is erratic, he seems to change his mind based on the last person who talks to him rather than stepping back and putting all the info together and doing his thing. Bush may not be the brightest bulb around, but compared to McCain his discipline is astounding. People look at McCain and see 4 years of chaos. You just know you'll get 4 years of ill-conceived and rash moves, and you'll have a guy who is and will be angry the whole time. Nobody wants an erratic president who is less disciplined than Bush and who blows up and dissent and cries around blaming it on the media or his opponents etc. It's surreal watching this guy. And he's supposed to be the seasoned steady pro while Obama is the reckless neophyte? lol

so they could hear that. she is so hateful.

According to my wingnut acquaintance, the crowd was really booing the players and libruls are lying. This must have really bothered him to put out an email so quickly.

The players were already introduced, and both teams were on the ice circling around to cheers and applause before Frau Palin was introduced. And as soon she walked out on the carpet and started her dumb f*$k waving, the chorus of boos commenced, subsequently drowned out by some bombastic orchestral fanfare.

:rofl:

I feel sorry for the woman who had actually won the contest who lives just over the city line, not far from where I live. No one has reported whether she is Dem or repuke but it was supposed to be her honor and that was preempted by this nonsense with Mooselini.

I mean, they might boo the Rangers, but when both teams are on the ice and have been introduced, the idea that they start booing the players again after Scary Palin comes walking out with her kids is ludicrous.

And I had to laugh when I saw/heard in another thread that the announcer said to show some Philly class. What Philly fan class?

Imagine how long those boos would had been if she didn't have her daughters with her.

I think the crowd toned it down because of them. Thank God, because Phili fans are the roughest and meanest on the Earth.

perfect.

I hate the Flyers and their fans, but this time I'll give them credit. Thank you Flyers fans(the organization still sucks).

I'm a Penguins fan, when I went to Philly to see a game last season, I'm lucky to have escaped with my head.

Shit-ass awful fans. Their team sucks too, lost to their minor league affiliate.

But I am impressed with how stupid the Palin-McCain camp was to go to the strongest Democratic stronghold in PA and expect a warm reception. Seriously, Philadelphia fans booed Santa Claus and Wayne Gretzky. A symbol of hope and joy, and the best hockey player of all time. What chance did Palin have?

......never thought I would say that statement

I doubt she's ever known such a reception, having only appeared in front of bottom-of-the-barrel Rethug base she only knows adulation for being one of them. I'll bet this nagged at her mind all night. A narcissist such as she will not soon get over such an embarrassement.

Julie

Sweet

I wish there was video. Bet that fake veneer cracked a bit under that sort of strain.

FNA!!!!!

This shows just how much hate she has spewed! Other than the few thousands that attend a mclame/failin rally, the rest of the country has come to hate her as much as she hates the Democratic Nominees.

I LOL when I read the article!!

Thanks for my morning laugh!

:toast:

She'll get booed BIGTIME:)...............

;-)

:).........

Or maybe a lack thereof. Isn't this the kind of behavior that we criticize repubs over?

David

Hope this helps.

It it took rowdy Philly hockey fans to give Palin a dose of reality outside of her red-state bubble, so be it.

"We thank you for your concern!"

DAMN if I didn't LOVE those wine cooler commercials as a kid!

So no- I have no tolerance left for people like her.

She is spreading hatred and inciting violence.

She deserved to be booed.

:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

Booing a person is not, I think indicative of tolerance, but of preference- especially in the realm of sports...

Not the booing. Boo all you want, call all the names you want just don't get upset when someone calls worse names or says something more offensive.

David

I was raised a Devils fan, and am now a Tampa bay Lightning fan, which means that the idea of me saluting the Flyers should be an abomination. But here I stand, saying thank you Philly. Too bad you could not have thrown an Octopus or two for great ummph (it's a Hockey thing)

puck the racist slime ball.

That's 'mom' getting booed. Has to be awful for them.

This is where they threw batteries at Santa.

Maybe she's used to being booed? :shrug:

They were booing the youngest daughter--wsn't she wearing a team jersey?

If I met her in person.