btw i havent watched a flyer,eagles,phillies,or sixers games in the last 5 years i could care less about the money hungry/greedy owners,and players.my money is my money and now my wife and i go out to dinner more,movies,more and we each just purchased new*american cars with our own monies)( what did you think the flyers,eagles,sixers,or phillies were gonna offer to pay my down payment for me as a rebate lol lol lol) hold your breath and wait

There are three breaks each period (at the first non-icing stoppage after 5:00, 10:00 and 15:00) and the 17 minute intermission between periods. The TV breaks really are necessary — you can’t expect these guys to play like they do for 20 minutes straight + game stoppages. They’re annoying, but there’s a reason besides commercial interest why every sport (except soccer) has them: the players need to catch their breath.

You get no free tickets because you didn’t pay for the Wachovia Center. Ed Snider and Comcast did (along with CoreStates/First Union/Wachovia/Wells Fargo/whoever’s next). The only thing the city paid for was to setup utility infrastructure, so the Wachovia Center could make use of and pay for city services. I watched an interview with Snider by Larry Kane a few weeks ago that was on CSN and he wasn’t exactly blunt about how he’s upset that everyone else (including the Phillies, Eagles, Pirates, Steelers and now Pens) got the government to pay for their new stadiums, but he had to pay for his.

Comcast owns the Flyers. They own Comcast SportsNet. Of course they want to have the majority of games on their cable channel that’s exclusive to their network. But it’s not like the Flyers are never on MyPHL17 or were never on UPN 57. And if you live in the Philadelphia area and have Comcast cable, you shouldn’t have to pay extra to see any Flyers game. Even the most basic cable packages have CSN and the Comcast Network/CN8. Are there even any NHL teams in the US that play the majority of their games on over-the-air stations anymore?

The Flyers certainly do not get revenue sharing from the NHL (or the government, if that’s what you were trying to say). If anything, they pay into that pool. You’re free to go make your argument on Phillies and Eagles boards, but the Flyers and all of their assets are privately owned and paid for. If they want to put ads along the boards or show ads on the scoreboard during games, that’s their choice, and they reap the benefits — not the city.

You’re acting like having a professional sports team is a bad thing for a city, and all it does is create harm. If you don’t like the NHL because the majority of players aren’t from this country (but instead from a country who we share an open border and great relationship with), that’s your problem, not Ed Snider’s, not the Flyers’, not the NHL’s and not the city’s.