It's not likely to raise the sale value of $750 million Mario Lemieux is reportedly asking for his NHL franchise, the Pittsburgh Penguins, but you can't blame a group of Philadelphia Flyers fans for trying, farfetched though their dream may be. A small contingent of Broad Street Bully fans has started a GoFundMe page to raise the three quarters of a billion dollars apparently necessary to buy the Pens. A Flyers blog, The Orange and Black Pack, are the culprits behind the tongue-in-cheek campaign. Check out their reasoning...
Please help us purchase the worst franchise in the NHL so we can try to make it better by doing things like:
- Painting the entire inside of the arena Orange and Black
- Putting a giant photo of Claude Giroux on the outside of the building, facing the highway
- Repainting the parking lots stripes orange, with a Flyers logo in each spot
- Using colored thread to impose a beach ball in the net behind Fleury
- Make a wall of fame in the concourse with photos of our top donators
Seems like a pretty solid thought process, right? The Pens and their fans would surely benefit from some of these changes, especially the photo of Giroux - he's very photogenic after all. Unfortunately it seems that their efforts may ultimately fall short of the $750 million goal. As of this article's writing the campaign had collected just $1,299 from 68 people. Then again, it's only two days in, so in about 5777,000 years they'll reach their goal!
Considering the reaction many experts had to Lemieux's reported asking price, the team could potentially remain on the market until then.
