Yesterday I posted video of a bunch of Flyers fans jumping two Rangers fans outside Gino's Steaks in Philly after the Winter Classic on Monday.Here's a little follow-up:According to NBC New York (H/T to reader Rich C.), the Blueshirts fan who was the most severely assaulted is 30-year-old Neal Auricchio a Woodbridge, NJ police officer and former Marine who earned a Purple Heart in Iraq. NBC also reports that the brawl started when the Flyers fans paid a man who was cleaning car windows to spray a Ranger fan with some sort of liquid.Here's Auricchio's father on his son's condition..."He got banged up pretty badly. Stitches in the one eye, and the other eye is pretty puffed up. He went for a CAT scan today, and we're waiting for the results on that."Here's the full video from NBC last night...
View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com.
...wow, I thought I was pissed off when I first heard about this, now I'm steamed. So now alo...
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