text: why are the flyers hated so much?, they always get booed in toronto during the draft, what's up with that? doesn't anyone like us? actually, perfessor (how are you?), people love to hate them! the flyers have been, for as long as i can recall, a bunch of huge brutes (very talented brutes, mind you) that have been near, or at the top of hockey. i respect them - but my allegiance to the ny blueshirts prevents me from doing any more than that. i don't hate them, though. those that do hate them are probably just jealous, especially in toronto. can you imagine... a team from philly consistently kicking the butts of a team from the birthplace of hockey. oh, the humanity of it all!