The Broad Street Bullies terrified hockey fans in the 1970s. Children in places like Boston and Buffalo feared that Dave “The Hammer” Schultz or one of the other toothless goons from those infamous Philadelphia Flyers teams lurked underneath their beds.
“It will be a period piece,” he said. “Philadelphia was a terrible place in those days. It was also the time of Watergate and the gas shortage and Patty Hearst. It was social upheaval at the time.”
He has kicked around the idea of a Broad Street Bullies movie for a couple years.
http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/sounds/post/_/id/2407/zombie-to-make-broad-street-bullies-film
[RZOMB]