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El Diablo

By Dan Shaugnessy
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, January 13, 2000

Philadelphia is where he heard it. Philly, after all, is where they booed Santa Claus on a sleigh and cheered Michael Irvin on a stretcher. Philadelphia is where a couple gets married at halftime of an Eagles game -- and fans razz the bride. It is where the best and worst sick jokes originate whenever there's a natural disaster or a particularly heinous crime. So it was in Philadelphia's First Union Center that Scott Gomez, skating into the corner, heard a loudmouth loge fan yell, "Hey, Gomez, d ...

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