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Get In Loser, We’re Jumping on the Flyers Bandwagon

By Coggin Toboggan

Published: Apr 8th, 2026 · 2:18 PM EDT

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Let’s go gang, we’re jumping onto the Flyers bandwagon. Come on! There’s plenty of room, the ice is cold, and the orange and the black is giving us our first reason in the last six years to even consider jumping on their bandwagon for a fun postseason run.

The Flyers inched ever closer to a postseason berth with last night’s 5-1 victory over the hated Devils, increasing their chances to claim a playoff spot to 70% and sweeping a season series over New Jersey for the first time in 42 years. It’s also increased the usage of the word “wagon” in this city by 9000%, as the Flyers certainly look like the perennial wagon rolling into the playoffs.

Flyers with huge game tonight vs the Devils https://t.co/tKEb48mlQF pic.twitter.com/jyVxxnm54L

— MoneyPuck.com (@MoneyPuckdotcom) April 7, 2026

So why oh why do we keep seeing some of the “dedicated” Flyers fans in this city getting their Bobby Clarke jerseys in a twist over the sudden interest in “their” team. Everyone should be welcomed onto the Flyers bandwagon, because honestly this is the first time in YEARS that they’ve given this city a reason to be excited.

Holy shit we’ve suffered through the likes of Dave Hakstol, Ron Hextall, Chuck Fletcher, Alan Vigneault, Mike Yeo, Torts, and Brad Shaw to get where we are today, so move your ass over and let the casual fan onto this ride.

I asked this same question back in 2020 when the Flyers last made the playoffs…can a bandwagon fan be welcomed back into the Flyers faithful? Here’s what I wrote:

I’m a bandwagon fan; what can I say! Am I so wrong with the Flyers, though? Can I jump back on this wagon and not worry about getting clotheslined off from the diehards that sat through season after season filled to the brim with the likes of Rob Zepp, Cal Heeter, Petr Mrazek, Calvin Pickard, or the countless other pieces of garbage that manned the pipes for the Flyers?

Can I jump back in, just like that? Can I pretend like nothing happened, show up at watch parties with a brand spanking new Konecny jersey, and jump right back in?

Or do I need to repent for my sins? Pay a penance? Self-flagellation with a knotted Roman Čechmánek jersey to make up for my years of absence?

FUCK YES I can jump on the bandwagon. Anyone can jump on the bandwagon. I think that’s perhaps the biggest difference between me as a fan now and me as a fan in my youth. In my teens and my twenties I absolutely scoffed at the notion of only paying attention to a team when they were “good,” sticking with them through thick and thin.

But now? Well, it’s not as black and white anymore. When a team like the Flyers is actively as incompetent as they have been for the majority of the last 13 years or so, it’s now my opinion that it is perfectly acceptable to put them on the pay no mind list. If they’re not going to try and win, or they’re going to try and do so in a half-assed way that has absolutely no chance of success (Chuck Fletcher’s ‘competitive rebuild’ comes to mind), than I’m not paying them any attention.

They didn’t deserve our time. Now they do. It’s as simple as that. You didn’t have to suffer through the failings of Nolan Patrick and German Rubtsov in order to enjoy the success of Porter Martone and Tyson Foerster, for fucks sake.

So come on, hop aboard the bandwagon and enjoy the ride. They might not make the playoffs for another six years after this.