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Fresh off a stunning win in the first game of their first round series against the Detroit Pistons, the 76ers play Game 2 tonight at 7:30.
And, to celebrate, the 76ers got Gov. Rendell to rename the Schuylkill Expressway “I-76ers”:
the team is requesting that travelers in the Greater Philadelphia Region refer to the Schuylkill Expressway by its proper name (I-76) and add “ers” to the end. The team hopes this will spread and people will immediately begin calling the popularly traveled highway “I-76ers.”
“It’s playoff time and we want to get our fans revved up for the postseason,” said Sixers Senior Vice President Lara Price. “As patrons utilize I-76ers every day to get to work, they’ll think of us and support our run in the playoffs.”
I-76ers is 25.2 miles of highway that extends from the Pennsylvania Turnpike at Valley Forge through Downtown Philadelphia to the Walt Whitman Bridge.
A friend of mine pointed out the proclamation from Ed Rendell noted the team “faces the Detroit Pistons in the first round of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals.” This is only the first round of the quarterfinals? Man, the 76ers have been out of the playoffs for so long I forgot over 300 teams qualified for the playoffs.
SIXERS ASK FANS TO PROPERLY CALL “SCHUYLKILL” BY IT’S REAL NAME (“I-76”) AND ADD “ERS” TO THE END FOR FIRST WEEK OF PLAYOFFS [Sixers.com]
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