Video: Penguins fans assail Rocky statue, leap victoriously

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Video: Penguins fans assail Rocky statue, leap victoriously
The Pensblog found this 5/11/2008 on sports.yahoo.com [flag]
The assorted tomfoolery continues between Pittsburgh Penguins fans and Philadelphia Flyers fanatics over the desecration of assorted landmarks in their respective cities. Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Horses put out a hit list of other Philadelphia targets for Penguins fans to hit with shirts, jerseys and digital cameras. The Pensblog published photos of a few competed missions, including this ... [link]

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GameDay (3.2) -- Flyers @ Pens
Published 5/11/2008 by Pensblog Staff (noreply@blogger.com) at The Pensblog
... Netters ] pointed out, it has surpassed the annoyance of the "Jordan/Eric Staal being brothers" story. [ Paul S. ] :: On the goon front, PFC Louden Downie might play. Which means at least three powerplays for the Pens. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ROCKYGATE [ G-Dubs, the Puck Daddy ] was e-mailed the Tube. ...

Let's Go Play With Statues! YEAH! FUN!
Published 5/12/2008 by Enrico at The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae
... More over at Puck Daddy. And I would like to state for the record I think this statue garbage is horribly boring and this will be our last post about it. ...

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