{"id":3943,"date":"2016-10-05T06:33:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T11:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2016-09-20T13:34:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T18:34:12","slug":"philadelphia-flyers-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/philadelphia-flyers-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers Are Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted this beauty in a 1966 Philadelphia Eagles program &#8212; it&#8217;s promo and season ticket application for the Philadelphia Flyers, one of the NHL&#8217;s six new expansion teams scheduled to begin play in the 1967-68 season. Dig this beauty:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3944\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/philadelphia-flyers-1966-promo-ad.jpg\" alt=\"1966 Philadelphia Flyers season ticket promo\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/philadelphia-flyers-1966-promo-ad.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/philadelphia-flyers-1966-promo-ad-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/philadelphia-flyers-1966-promo-ad-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/philadelphia-flyers-1966-promo-ad-769x1024.jpg 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check out those prices! $247.50 for a box seat would cost\u00a0about $1800 in 2016 dollars. I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s a bargain, especially considering the Flyers finished their inaugural campaign by winning the West Division. Unfortunately season ticket holders lost out on the last 7 games of the season after a March 1968 snowstorm damaged part of the Spectrum&#8217;s roof.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, let&#8217;s take a moment to acknowledge that Flyer mascot drawing on the right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted this beauty in a 1966 Philadelphia Eagles program &#8212; it&#8217;s promo and season ticket application for the Philadelphia Flyers, one of the NHL&#8217;s six new expansion teams scheduled to begin play in the 1967-68 season. Dig this beauty: Check out those prices! $247.50 for a box seat would cost\u00a0about $1800 in 2016 dollars. I&#8217;d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[21,454,42,453],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advertising","tag-1960s","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia-flyers","wpcat-68-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3946,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions\/3946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}