'It was our watering hole': How a South Jersey bar became the Broad Street Bullies' favorite hangout

A few minutes were left in the game when a bartender came up from the basement of Rexy's, a small bar on the Black Horse Pike in West Collingswood Heights that became a Flyers haven in the 1970s, and said there was a small fire. The fire department, Leonardi figured, would shove a hose in the basement and extinguish the small fire before he bought another round. “We listened to the Flyers lose and then opened the car door to see what was going on with the fire,” Leonardi said.