Not all in Philly was brotherly love
Perhaps we spoke too soon when we wrote our post celebrating the love-in that was the Winter Classic. Philadelphia police say that after the game on Monday, Flyers fans attacked Rangers fans at the famous Geno’s Steaks, a Philly Cheesesteak landmark, about two miles north of Citizens Bank Park. The police are seeking help identifying the attackers.
One of the Rangers fan, an off-duty Woodbridge, N.J. police officer, who reportedly served in Iraq as a Marine, was taken to the hospital afterward and required stitches. The New York Daily News has identified him as 30-year-old Neal Auricchio.
Philadelphia police may have caught a break when Edward Neary bragged on the Facebook page of the Broad Street Hockey blog that he and his friends committed the attack. On the Broad Street Hockey blog itself, Travis Hughes screen-grabbed Neary’s post.
The attack somewhat echoes the severe beating that Los Angeles Dodgers fans gave a San Francisco Giants fan after the season opener last March in Dodger Stadium’s parking lot. That fan, Brian Stow, an EMS first responder, required a lengthy hospitalization and has not yet fully recovered from his head injuries. (Lee Jenkins of Sports Illustrated wrote this article about the attack in August).
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