Flyers bloggers launch online campaign to buy Penguins

Philadelphia Flyers bloggers are taking their rivalry with the Pittsburgh Penguins to another level.

The Orange & Black Pack has launched a GoFundMe page to buy the Penguins, who are exploring a potential sale and reportedly seeking $750 million.

Here's the blog's proposal, which includes several digs at their cross-state adversaries:

Recently it has come to light that Mario Lemieux is willing to sell the Pittsburgh Penguins for $750 million dollars. Well, we're gonna buy em! We are the Orange and Black Pack, a dedicated Flyers hockey blog. We figure since the Flyers already figuratively own the Penguins, their fans might as well literally own them.

You can find us at http://www.orangeandblackpack.com or on Facebook and Twitter. In the very likely event we do not raise the money required to purchase the Penguins franchise, 100 percent of the money we have raised will be donated to Flyers Wives charities. Information on who Flyers Wives charities supports can be found here: http://flyers.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=105354

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

The bloggers raised about $200 in the first 24 hours.

Even if they don't hit their goal, at least the money is going to charity.

- With h/t to Philly Influencer