Canadians Boo US National Anthem
Last night, at the Bruins- Canadiens game in Montreal, Canadian fans booed the US national anthem both during its singing, and at its completion. The Canadian national anthem, of course, got a standing ovation.
While people here are not totally sure, the only explanation that people can come up with is that the Canadians booing of the national anthem was the 'retaliation' for the accidental death of 8 Canadian soldiers overseas.
Either way, it was an unfortuante situation, and I hope that Bruins fans will show some restraint and not boo the Canadian nation anthem when the series comes back to Boston.
While people here are not totally sure, the only explanation that people can come up with is that the Canadians booing of the national anthem was the 'retaliation' for the accidental death of 8 Canadian soldiers overseas.
Either way, it was an unfortuante situation, and I hope that Bruins fans will show some restraint and not boo the Canadian nation anthem when the series comes back to Boston.
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It's disgraceful really. How did Don put it... "those people are the scum of the earth".
That about sums it up.
So today, people are doing it as a way to disparage the other team (when it's from the other side of the border). Anyone else remember the tizzy created by a certain basketball player acouple of years back when he refused to stand for the playing of national anthems? (Was it Abdur Rahim?) Sports writers all over NA were giving him a hard time, fans booed him. Why? It isn't an international event; he plays for an owner, not a national team. He is effectively an employee who should not be required to make any sort of national or patriotic gesture. All the guy wanted to do was sit on the bench during anthems, people got pissed about it. Now a good many of those people are acting like complete ash-holes before during and after the playing of national anthems.
I've never really thought that a domestic contest is really the place for the playing of national anthems anyway. So, some overpaid athletes who jump from city to city are going to hit a ball, or each other, around for a couple of hours while people drink beer and shout obscenities. What a time to get patriotic! Get rid of the anthems altogether -- as far as sports go, they should be for international contests only.
<strong>Has nothing to do with the war, and everything to do with the typically retarded sports fan.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Amen. Like how fans cheer when a player is seriously injured. Sportsmanship is dead.
When was it alive? Back when spectator sports involved actual death?
Sports hooligans need to be shot, it's possible for people to love their sports teams without acting like jack-asses.
Well, there are occasional real sportsmen, but sportsmanship I guess has never really been a widespread affliction.
I didn't hear it in Game IV. It was uncalled for. The one thing I do like is that the Canucks have been very disciplined in not hammering Yzerman with his bad knee.
Just before the American national anthem was sung, the announcer mentioned the game being dedicated to the bombing victims. That might have done it.
It doesn't make any sense to me, however. Most of the NHL (etc) teams are made up of both American and Canadian players, and booing one anthem or the other will upset both teams.
It's a true embarrassment. <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />
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Sports hooligans need to be shot, it's possible for people to love their sports teams without acting like jack-asses.</strong><hr></blockquote>
could not of put it better myself.
<strong>Canadians are idiots... </strong><hr></blockquote>
_Canadians_ are idiots? It was an American pilot who killed 4 Canadian soldiers during a "friendly fire" incident last week.
I say, we take our lumber, our oil, our water, _and_ our Stanley Cup, and go home.
On a side note: why is it that all the canadian girls I know that live in America are really hot?
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Holy shit I hope there are some good season ending hits on Guerin and Thornton next game...
That was the deadliest elbow I've ever seen.