How To Listen To Philadelphia Union Games On 97.5 The Fanatic

97.5 The Fanatic is the home of your Philadelphia Union.

Most regular season Philadelphia Union games can be heard on your radio by tuning to 97.5 FM, online on the website streaming player, and on our free 97.5 The Fanatic App.

Near the end of the regular season, you may have to tune in elsewhere to hear the game due to conflicts. In those cases you can do the following:

On the top right corner of the page simply click LISTEN LIVE located in the top right corner and choose UNION SOCCER from the dropdown menu.

Go to the homepage of our app and look for the second stream listed as "UNION SOCCER" with the Union logo. Click that item at the start of the game you will be able to listen (see the example below).

Thank you and GO UNION.
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Philly fans can hold a grudge. If you show us love, we will shower you with more love than any other fan base. But likewise, if you wrong us, we may never let you forget it.

One such person who wronged us is back in town. Cutter Gauthier. The once top Flyers prospect who forced his way out of town. So with Cutter playing in Philly, and likely in store for a rough night of boos every time he touched the puck, we looked at some of the biggest villains in Philly Sports history.

It was bad enough that T.O. threw a tantrum and forced his way out of Philly. But then the team he chose to go to was the Cowboys. There is no chance he didn't purposely choose the Eagles' biggest rival out of spite for how things ended in Philly. 

 He is not the first big name to go from the Eagles to the Cowboys. But he is one of the most impactful Eagles to make that change. Randall Cunningham was mostly a backup for the Cowboys. Harold Carmichael had just one catch with the Cowboys and spoke about hating his time there.  Tommy McDonald was traded to the Cowboys, against his own will. But T.O. chose the Cowboys and was still in his prime.  

He has repaired his relationship here a little bit after leaving the Cowboys. But it is hard to forgive a guy who refused to live up to his contract and then went to the enemy.  

Philly fans loved Ben Simmons more than anybody at one point. For years Philly fans were his biggest defenders. Lots of us forgave all of his faults. The not shooting, the lack of aggressiveness, the poor FT shooting. And when National Media trashed him, we rose to his defense. Then he passed out of a dunk, and fans were rightfully pissed. Suddenly he didn’t want to play here anymore, and his camp was leaking bogus stories to any reporter who was willing to take their fake stories and run with it.

 To think they actually claimed Sixers fans would protest him outside of the Sixers practice facility, or that Tyrese Maxey (who was with the same agency) would also be traded out of Philly.

Ben didn’t realize how good he had it here. And if he had sucked it up, came back, and actually improved, he would have been beloved again. If he lived up to half his hype, or at least tried to improve, Sixers fans would be naming their kids after him. Instead, he wormed his way out of the city, and he is pretty much done in the NBA several years later.

Like Ben Simmons, at one point Carson Wentz was a Superhero to Philly fans. We went to war with various reporters who tried to put him down. An Irish guy who covers the NFL named Cian Fahey became a villain in Philly because he was Anti-Carson Wentz. But he just couldn't handle people liking his backup. And it hurt his game. 

Was it fair to Wentz that they were drafting QBs behind him? Maybe not. But if he went out and played like he did in 2017, Hurts would have never had the chance to replace him. Instead, he let the mental part of his game impact the physical part and never regained his 2017 form.

Okay, maybe he didn’t actually throw the Super Bowl on purpose. But with how awful his coaching performance was in the Super Bowl, he may as well have. People already didn’t like him. Then we learned he took a job with another team while he was supposed to be preparing for the Super Bowl. And then his defense had one of the worst performances in Super Bowl history.  

No one can blame him for wanting a better job, where he can be the Head Coach. But to take it while you are still with another team, and then perform so poorly, is unforgivable. His defense got 0 stops in the second half. If they got one, just one, there would have been a parade for the Eagles. Instead, we had to put up an NFC Champions Banner, and he is the number 1 reason why. 

At least it didn't work out well for him. After 3 years, the Cardinals fired Gannon, and he has one of the worst win/loss records in NFL history. Eagles, meanwhile, made the playoffs all 3 years since he left. Oh, and they went back to the Super Bowl and actually won it. It helped that their new DC, Vic Fangio, actually called a great game in that Super Bowl.

If you saw The Last Dance, you learned about just how big of a villain Jerry Krause was for the Bulls in the 90s. The Bulls had the greatest Basketball team ever, and someone on the inside was actively working against them. Well, the Eagles had something similar, just obviously without the rings to show for all that turmoil.  

The Eagles at one point had Reggie White, Clyde Simmons, Seth Joyner, Keith Jackson, and Eric Allen. Braman slowly forced them all out. Was it because he was too cheap to pay them? Partly. But he apparently also just wanted to purge the roster of players loyal to Buddy Ryan. Thankfully, he eventually sold the team, and the Eagles now have Jeff Lurie, who is not cheap or spiteful. But the Eagles were not always so lucky. And Norman Braman was one of the worst owners in Philadelphia history and held the Eagles back for years by being a giant baby who meddled too much with the team. 

He doesn't have the title of worst owner, though, because that goes to the guy we are talking about next.

Braman is not the worst owner in Eagles' history. Because while he was awful at least he didn’t try to move the team. The same cannot be said about Leonard Tose. He was set to move the Eagles to Phoenix back in 1984. Tose was losing money, in major debt, and was ready to cut a deal to sell part of the team to a Real Estate Developer, with part of that deal being the Eagles' move to Phoenix.  

Thankfully it never came to be. The city reached an agreement with Tose to keep the Eagles in Philly, and a year later Tose sold the team to Braman. But it is hard to ever forgive even the attempt to move the team. Imagine Philadelphia without the Eagles. 

Harden was at one point beloved here. When the Sixers first traded here, many fans were convinced he was the guy who would put us over the top. Instead, it was more of the same, and he pulled the same playoff disappearing act Ben Simmons always did. And also like Simmons, he threw a hissy fit to force his way off of the team. Only he made his hissy fit even more public, while Ben hid behind fake reports.   

We should have known better. It is the same thing he did in two other cities. But our hope for the team blinded us to what Harden really was.

I do not have the same hate for Scott Rolen many other Phillies fans do. I was not old enough at the time to have strong feelings for what he did. But for many who followed the Phillies in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Rolen is the greatest villain in Phillies history. 

Like many other guys on this list, he forced his way out. Then he landed in St. Louis and declared it Baseball Heaven. In fairness, the Phillies did suck at the time, and the Cardinals did not. But it is easy to understand why Phillies fans would feel he stabbed them in the back. Especially when he didn’t even play on Scott Rolen Night with the Phillies.  

No one likes a quitter, and Sandberg literally tucked his tail in and ran away when he realized he was over his head as the Phillies Manager. The heir apparent to Charlie Manuel couldn't handle to heat of being a manager. Didn't even make it through 3 seasons before he gave up, and left the Phillies in the wind.

Is being bad at your job and moving all your best players a betrayal? Chip at the very least betrayed his players. He inherited a very talented Eagles offense, and slowly let all of them, including DeSean Jackson and LeSean McCoy, walk. Anyone who wasn't completely on board with the Chip Kelly way got sent out. It is probably why he got worse every season before he was fired before the end of his 3rd season. And why he got just 1 season in San Francisco.

JD Drew never even actually played here. But Phillies fans hated him anyway. The Phillies drafted him, and couldn't sign him. He went on to have a fine career. And it's not like the Phillies missed out on too much. But being rejected was a type of pain Phillies fans still have not forgiven.

As we have said, no one likes a quitter. Cutter cut out of Philly before ever showing up here. Did he not want to play with John Tortorella? Was he upset the Flyers were slowplaying his development? We still don't know the real answer. What we do know is he quit. He forced a trade and never took the ice for the Flyers.

The annoying thing is how good he is. He has 39 points so far for the Ducks after a 44-point rookie season last year. The Flyers could use a player like Gauthier. Having him as a long-term linemate for Matvei Michkov would probably be great. Instead, he is in Anaheim, and all the Flyers got back was a perpetually developing defenseman in Jamie Drysdale.

Cutter was 19 when the Flyers traded him. Should we hold it against his whole career? Maybe not. None of us made great decisions at 19.

But you know Philly fans will hold it against him. Anytime he visits for the rest of his career, there will be a chorus of boos raining down on him. Philly fans don't forget. JD Drew got booed his entire career for a similar kind of move. A handful of people still wanted to boo Scott Rolen when he returned to go on the Phillies Wall of Fame.

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