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The Flyers got their name through a contest. Bill Putnam announced there would be a contest to decide the name of the Philadelphia hockey team, and many attempted to win the contest.

It was the sister of Ed Snider (who owns the Philadelphia Flyers) that suggested the name Flyers, and Ed Snider saw it as a winning name. Over 100 entries were labeled as "Flyers" and a drawing was held to determine which one would be the winner.

It was Alec Stockard, at that time a 9-year-old boy, who won the drawing, although he did misspell the name and wrote "Fliers."
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Teams use to be called names from the city they were from for Exmples; the New Yorks' the Boston's the Phillies were called the Philadelphias' newspaper writers shorten it to Phillies. Because of the nickname of the city Philly (IES) being plural. more than one.

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The "Phillies" got their name because they are from "Philadelphia" hence "Phillies". Their old name was the "Quakers".

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since the liberty bell is in Philadelphia they used an eagle as there symbol

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they were originally called the 'philadelphias' but it was then shortened to the 'phillies'

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it is Philadelphia shortened

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