The coming week will feature many accolades for Flyers owner Ed Snider, who passed away Monday morning in California at age 83. Snider brought hockey, and then two Stanley Cups, to Philadelphia. But before that, he was vice president and treasurer of the Eagles, from 1963-67, under Eagles owner Jerry Wolman, Snider's then-partner in the building of the Spectrum and the birth of the Flyers.
Snider's role with the Eagles ended when he and Wolman fell out bitterly, financial troubles from a Wolman construction project in Chicago allowing Snider to gain control of the Spectrum and the hockey franchise.