Flyers Win Hockey Battle, Lose Wig War

The creepiness above is from the Wachovia Center last night, where the Flyers beat the Blackhawks 3-0 to improve their record to 3-7-1.

In addition to topping the lowly ‘Hawks, the Flyers also attempted to set the record for most wigs worn at one time, clearly the most important of all the Guiness World Records. Flyers fans wore 9,315 wigs, topping the old mark of 6,213 at a Detroit Pistons game in 2004. Or did they? From the Orlando Sentinel’s What The Blog?! (sigh):

On February 21, 2006, fans at Quicken Loans Arena [in Orlando Cleveland] broke the Guinness World Record for “most people wearing wigs in a single venue” when 20,562 fans wore curly wigs given away before the game in celebration of [Andersen] Varejao’s unique hairstyle. All fans in attendance were instructed to put the wigs on during a timeout.

They couldn’t even get enough wigs to break the record. (And didn’t have enough fans, either.) Can anything else go wrong this season?

Win helps to ease identity crisis [Daily News]
AP Photo - Orange Wigs [AP/Yahoo!]