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Phillies fan robs bank to pay for gear | Philadelphia Daily News | 10/30/2008
Phillies fans are known for their diehard, drastic and often drunken support for their team. Crazed Phanatics paint the team's logo on their lawns or imbibe the same amount of shots as the number on favorite player's jersey. It doesn't matter. You take one for the team. But one fan may have ...
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Phillies fan robs bank to pay for gear
SmackCaster SmackBlog — ... One Phillies fan went too far to support his team, robbing a bank and buying team gear at Modell’s on Wednesday. Honest. ...

Your Philadelphia Crime, Rioting, and Car Flipping Update
Walkoff Walk — ... A Phillies fan robbed a bank in a quest to get some cold hard cash to pay for Phillies playoff gear at a Modells store. No telling whether he posed with a Red Sox hat and a Youuuuuuk sign before he left. ...

Man Robs Bank in Order to Pay for Bandwagon Phillies Gear
FanHouse — ... Just when you think Philadelphians can't be any more whacked out about their sports teams, just when you start to believe that maybe this whole Philly World Series thing will be kind of calm, well, some guy decided to go and rob a bank in order to purchase Phillies merchandise. ...

From the Only in Philly Files: Bank Robbing Fans
The Sports Complex — ... , whose wall doubles as a a glass window and patrons do not double as rowdy), some was ugly (someone threw a paper stand through a Lucky Brand storefront on Walnut, and I’ve heard reports of a tipped over firetruck) and some was both: ...

Man Robs Bank To Buy Phils Gear As Rome Burns
SPORTSbyBROOKS — It’s day two of the Siege of Philadelphia, and though most phone lines to the beleaguered city are down, we are receiving scattered reports of unthinkable horrors being perpetrated. Like one man who decided not to loot a store directly, like most normal people, but to rob a bank and spend it on Phillies gear . ...

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blacksportsonline.com 10/30/2008 — Ryan Howard is from Saint Louis, so I have had the opportunity to meet him several times. I once asked him how was playing in Philly and his reply:. "It can be tough, but they are passionate and they just want a winner" ...
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