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Philadelphia Flyers History:
Ed Snider was a football executive talking business with team banker Bill Putnam in 1965 when he got the tip that led to the birth of one of the NHL's most enduringly successful franchises. Putnam mentioned he would soon be leaving to prepare Jack Kent Cooke's bid for an NHL franchise for Los Angeles and referred Snider to Bill Jennings, the president of the New York Rangers and chairman of the expansion committee. We offer the best Philadelphia Flyers online.
Jennings was both intrigued by the nation's fourth-largest market and skeptical of its historically poor support of a variety of minor-league teams. The last, the Ramblers of the Eastern Hockey League, had abandoned the ramshackle Philadelphia Arena in 1964 for another shabby arena in the New Jersey suburbs.
Meanwhile Snider, who was the Philadelphia Eagles' point man for a proposed baseball/football stadium in South Philadelphia, was asked by Ike Richman, part-owner of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, whether Jerry Wolman, the wildly successful developer who owned the Eagles, had any interest in building an arena. Snider went to Wolman, who agreed that a building with twin hockey/basketball tenants could be viable.
When Putnam subsequently decided to leave Cooke, he joined the Snider-Wohnan partnership and began the bid for an NHL franchise. It was granted, to the surprise of many who expected a team to go to Baltimore, on February 9, 1966. Ground was broken for the arena (the Spectrum) in May at the corner of Broad Street and Pattison Avenue. Team colors of orange, black and white were selected by Putnam, both because of their boldness and because of his old loyalties to the University of Texas, where he had played football. Snider's sister, Phyllis, came up with the name Flyers, as did enough voters in a name-the-team contest, that the franchise could justify its selection over suggestions like Quakers and Liberty Bell.
Before payment of the $2-million franchise fee was due in June, 1967, Snider acquired Wolman's 22 percent stake in the team in exchange for his own 40 percent share in the Spectrum. Snider also bought out Jerry Schiff, giving him 60 percent of the Flyers.
Wolman reiterated his pledge to put up half of the $2 million franchise fee, but with less than two weeks to go before the money was due at the expansion draft, he admitted he didn't have it. Snider and Putnam had to scramble. The last $500,000 was not procured until 48 hours before the deadline. A 15 percent share in the team later was sold to Joe Scott, a well-known local beer baron who would work tirelessly to sell tickets and open doors to a business community that was slow to respond to a perceived foreign sport.
On June 6, 1967, General Manager Bud Poile, a longtime minor-league executive in the Detroit organization hired by Putnam on the advice of Jack Adams, and coach Keith Allen supervised the Flyers in a drafting approach that differed from the other five new teams. Starting with two goaltender selections, Bernie Parent and Doug Favell, the Flyers focused on only four young players, Joe Watson, Ed Van Impe, Lou Angotti and Brit Selby, of whom had spent more than token time in the NHL.
The Flyers debuted with a 5-1 loss at Oakland on October 11, 1967. The team's first victory was a 2-I win in St. Louis on October 18. The following night, with signs of unfinished construction all around the Spectrum, they drew 7.812 for their initial home game, a 1-0 victory over Pittsburgh. Winger Bill Sutherland, who had to sneak into the building after an overzealous usher refused to believe he was a player, scored the winning goal in the third period.
With a base of only 2100 season tickets and no radio contracted, the team endured crowds as embarrassingly low as 4,203 in the early weeks. But momentum began to build. In February, the team had just drawn consecutive sellouts of home games against Toronto and Chicago when high winds tore portions of tarpaper off the Spectrum roof during a performance of the Ice Capades. The building was quickly repaired, but 12 days later more wind did greater damage to a building that, it was learned, had never received a final safety inspection before opening.
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