Saw a toronto sports media guy scolding hockey fans for booing the American national anthem and I would like to extend my boos to that person specifically
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Actually, yes, a f-ton of English loyalists fled the colonies to Canada during the Revolution.
So you're just claiming Civil War and Jim Crow reprobates are there too?
Not sure if you are referring to them but this was the take of Friedman and Bukauskas this week. A bit insane, a country is threatening Canada’s sovereignty. Boo all you like, this is bigger than hockey.
"This shouldn't be political!" as giant holographic country flags wave, and some "musical prodigy" belts out the anthems with a tear in their eye on the bi-monthly military/law enforcement night.
This. And what bugs me about the U.S. is the fetish with war planes flying over games and religious prayers (esspy US auto racing) being broadcast. They do this crap at the Toronto Indy and it feels like indoctrination when they do it up here.
I've lost interest in baseball after a lifelong love affair.
As a kid and adult now retired.
Players striking
The Houston Astros cheating and no discernible repercussions.
The game is played by a clock and pitch clock.
The soul of the game was that it could last for hours.
It's sterile.
There’s something that happens to your brain when you see how much more popular you become as you get closer to the athletes. They make you pay for that access with your dignity. So you overcompensate (the suits, the hair), the Instagram posts that hint at wealth, gate keeping hockey.
I’m American and I say boo, and boo loudly. Americans know that the booing is at MAGA fools. Those of us that are trying to defend our democracy are not upset by the booing.
As an American and a hockey fan, I sincerely welcome your boos. Boo away! I might even join you. (I already always sing along to Oh Canada when we play Canadian teams at home)
Trump destroys everything he touches. The CANADA- USA friendship is over, they are merely our neighbours now. Trump burned that bridge by threatening us with the unthinkable ….
It is our Canadian right and responsibility to protest against the tyranny and oppression which has clearly overtaken what used to be a democratic country. Boo the USA and its Fascist leadership at every opportunity. Boooooooo trump.
People who buy the tickets can boo if they want to. As for some sports media guy getting all uppity about the booing, we didn’t start this fight with Mango Mussolini. This is sports media guy’s “shut up and dribble” moment.
I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend your right to say it.
Boo away, 🇨🇦... though a chant of F*%# Tr-mp would be more accurate and frankly comforting to your USA 🇺🇸 friends opposing the Orange Debacle #nokings #oppose #tuckfrump #sicsempertyrannis #wethepeople ##WeWillRise
Excuse me. To whom is that comforting? What about the millions of americans that voted for the asshole?
Don’t assume that you are the majority because… as can be seen by how your country voted, that is not true.
Please re-read. Comforting to we who are on the same page as you. While I never mentioned a majority, I can confidently say VERY FEW IF ANY Americans take that irresponsible lunacy seriously. It's deliberately intended to distract from real in-progress actions our wannabe dictator is doing. ❤️ 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🗽
Pissed off Americans ARE frustrated with what they see happening in their lives and (correctly) imo feel neither party has done anything to help everyday Americans. Unfortunately, too few think critically, and protest voted or stayed home. MAGATs are cultists- can't help them. We will fight this 🗽
Thank you. You aren't too bad - for a Canuck's fan (Penguins here) ;-)
This craziness has to stop. I love my country. I'm a 21 yr retired Naval Officer and served alongside your Navy. This saddens me beyond words. We ARE so much more... Our Supreme Court Decision - Citizens United has poisoned us.
Weird how one sad little man can destroy a strong and important relationship between 2 countries in just a few days. When I was a teenager we would drive across the border with just a driver’s licence. No passport required.
This makes me very sad good neighbor.😔 All of the US doesn't deserve boos, though the whole world will probably be hating us soon. We're losing all of our friends on the playground.😔But most of us love our neighbors to the North. Save your boos for Felon47, Evil Musk & the rest of the MAGA Cult.
This is not a typical Canadian thing to do. It’s not a reflection of the players on the opposing team. It’s our FAFO. It speaks volumes. It shows our unity. We too are feeling the ripple effect. We are not violent, we are not pulling out guns. If this is how we support each other, I’m good with that
As an American, I say "boo" as much as possible. Until we rid ourselves of this neo-nazi administration, we cannot expect the world to respect our flag when our own President shits on it everyday.
❤️ Canada.
As an American who grew up near the Canadien border and traveled there , played hockey there, vacationed there and ate there I was very pleased they booed our anthem. So how do MAGA hockey Americans feel now seeing this ? Most are not capable of shame but should be.
Also, I don't think anyone booing thinks it's a solution. It's an expression of discontent. Given current realities, I really don't care about any notions of sportsmanship or decorum that are making people clutch their pearls
"Yeah i mean I get that people are mad that a much larger country is using the destruction of the economy as leverage to chip away at canadas sovereignty, but booing is very mean"
I’m not against then booing but someone is getting the chance to sing in front of others. That person has nothing to do with the politics of Cult Stooge.
Presumably they had a choice to sing there. No enslaved anthem singers that I know of. As far as association goes, a national anthem is 100% symbolic, so if you don't know what you're singing it for that's on you.
Typical social media response. I never insinuated anyone was forced to sing anything. Just that I’m sure it feels like an honor to be given the chance to sing in front of 20,000 people. Are you a musician?
Just following my own thought through to its logical conclusion. Which thought it this: if I'm asked to sing or speak on behalf of an entity, I hope that I'll realize that means I'm aligning myself with it publicly. Therefore I'll decide if I AM aligned before I accept. My *free* choice.
Ok we definitely need to make sporting events more controversial and no one should ever sing the Star Spangled Banner whether it gives them the experience of a lifetime or not. You’re freedom of choice is well understood.
there's a thinkpiece in there somewhere about the reactionary right, lifted truck owners and people who can afford to play hockey cosplaying as blue collar, working class people.
The dude I'm talking about is working class despite partly owning a business (and his partener is Arab so.. 🤷♀️ lots of this seems to be driven by white dudes who didn't realize business is hard if you're not rich to begin with... it's driven by disappointed White male privilege basically).
Life's hard if you don't start out wealthy and middle age is when you start realizing youthful ambitions and plans aren't going to play out as you envisioned (and your body starts hurting if you do physical labour). It's what makes these guys vulnerable and redirects their anger away from rich guys.
Yeah, most hockey guys I know aren't hockey/truck guys and are also into women's hockey. Though one hockey/truck/small business guy I know keeps falling into the "immigrants are why I can't buy a house" trap they lay for hockey/truck guys (so much of this stuff is resentment about, well, reality).
Canadian WWI soldiers didn’t commit war crimes just to have their sports guys capitulate in advance. Canadians didn’t engage in the Christmas Truce; they sure as hell would boo an enemy’s anthem.
The 3rd Geneva Conventions were written largely in response to the Canadians actions during WWI. I’m teaching International Law this semester and it was a fun day when students learned Canadians could be bad guys.
Not a fun day for my grand father who was in the Canadian forces in WW1.
Make sure you teach them how friggin young they were. Gotcha moments eh .
There were no fun days for him as he was shot twice and was on disability from the time he was 19.
I do. College kids are the same age/older as WWI soldiers and also have a relatively myopic view of the world. They don’t have a sense that any place other than the US has ever been the imperial bad guy or that Canada has ever been anything other than our weak neighbor. Teaching WWI is important.
Instead of booing the American anthem I would prefer the crowd chanting “Trump Sucks.” Can’t use the F-word because kids are in attendance. Our Anger should not be at the US, it should be directed at the Orange Menace.
Whats that style we all did in music class and then probably butchered during the Xmas concert in elementary school. Where one group sings one thing while the other sings something else? We could always do that..
Unfortunately, it’s well deserved. They are booing a dictator and an unelected person who has breached our data and has brought our government to a halt. That person should be sent back to South Africa.
The folks who died on both sides if the border in both WW's , the wars in SE Asia and the Middle East is why we should leave not be booing either anthem...the players did not promote tariffs.
Unfortunately it's not booing America, Canada has a platform to boo TRUMP who is ruining the WORLD, so yes we will continue booing until he IS REMOVED from office..that's all!!!
All of America holds responsibility by allowing and tolerating the mouth breathing gomer chuds with all their MAGA BS for years. They elected the village idiot to the highest office. We all bare this burden and we will all burn because of it. Boo away. We deserve it.
I want to go to a game just to Boo the US team and I’m American. And I can Boo a hell of a lot better than Canadians Im from NY I will show them how it’s done. 😎 BOO!!!
As an American: it makes me sad, that our friends, are booing us; but, I totally get it. We have a fascist reality TV show, 🤡; Hitler wannabe: playing president .
No. As an American I fully support booing the national anthem, the "president", and any American legislator. Don't boo the people, though. There are half of us who definitely don't want this, who knew better, who aren't trash and are working to end them
What sports media guy doesn't get is that we're not booing their national anthem; we're booing Trump *during* their national anthem.
There's a big difference.
It’s very rude to threaten a friendly country with assimilation too, just because you don’t want to pay a fair price for their resources. Booing at a hockey game will be the least of your worries as you will face retribution from Canada for your actions. Boo to Trump and all those who support him.
Understand that it’s people booing the moronic US president and all the idiots who support his destructive policies. They aren’t booing the players. I hope the booing is especially loud tonight.
It's funny to me how some can put differences aside and choose to show respect for a nation as a whole while some cant. Every game I go to I stand and show my respect for your fellow Canadians during the anthem. Regardless of what you say, I'll continue to do so. You can boo all you want bud
As an American, I'm fine with it. Our country sucks right now. I also didn't vote for FOTUS, so I don't have any hurt feelings, because idol worship of a flag or anthem is dumb.
Initially I was, turn your back. After a moment: let the US know we are pissed. This isn't about the players. We obviously are making a clear and loud statement
Just make sure you burn it when Dumbfuck, fElon, Johnson, Grassley, Mitch, Clarence, Alito, and as many other MAGAts that can fit are in the Oval. Bar the doors.
I'm 'merican, and I wholeheartedly agree with the booing. I'm ashamed. people who don't research, get conned by a con man, or are racist can't complain. We r acting like bullies...Thought we were better than that. Guess we not.
I once saw a video of Canadians singing the American anthem out of respect when the singer’s mike went dead. They even knew the words (more than most of us do). So Boo away, our Felon deserves it!
I got into it with a Raptors pod boy for the same reason. He wasn't even born here and was poo pooing Canadians for booing the flag. Who the hell are you to tell Canadians how to react.
This American is going to tune in to the Canada vs usa game and boo the national anthem from home... hell I might even sing along with 'Oh Canada' for the first time ever.
While I would not do so, I have no problem with people expressing their opinion of our neighbour at any opportunity. As for the idea that it is not the player's fault, I am quite sure that a percentage of them are, in fact, at fault. At least, their votes were for Trump.
Economic warfare since it is being used against us anyways. There are times in life where you have 2 choices to make in, stand your ground or cower in fear of losing privileges! We're at this moment right now, history is ready to be written, and your worried about not living a spoiled life!
Eric, without knowing precisely what this will do to the economy, would you say it's time for us to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?
I'll pass on the goo; I'm not sure there would be any nutritional value on the watery remains--maybe used as a soup-starter, but I would only feed the soup to the hordes of Trump supporters who will be starving pretty soon...
American and hockey fan here. I look forward to hearing the boos from Canadian crowds, please keep ‘em coming. I despise this administration, and hearing boos feels like solidarity against a common enemy. I want everyone here to see how much the international community disproves of Trump/Musk, et al
As an American, I fully support Canada's right to boo us. We brought this on ourselves by diminishing education and glorifying celebrity. I did not vote for Felon 45, but I accept the consequences of not being able to convince enough people. And I still adore our northern neighbors. "Oh, Canada!"
I’ll be honest, I can’t guarantee I won’t be cheering for Canada to win tonight. Not feeling terribly patriotic but proud of my neighbors to the north who may someday need to give many of us safe harbor.
That's the US national anthem not America's Canada is not a part of the US. Sorry y'all that our idiot in chief is harassing you. I like you just how you are. Not so much some in the US right now.
There comes a time when it is no longer patriotic to quietly suffer the continuous and humiliating insults to one's country all in the guise of civility.
It is a divisive issue, some thinking its rude. I think people are blowing off steam because of their anger and disgust. I don't think that many Democrats take it as an insult.
You are correct, we don't. We gladly boo in unison with Canada for what maga, trump, and his cohorts have and are doing to this country. Follow it back to Russia and Putin.
And doesn't that say so much about our awful situations, that Canadians would boo, and Americans approve. It definitely wouldn't happen two months ago. Have you seen the video when the sound system failed at a hockey game a few years ago, and Canadians finished the US anthem loudly. A different time
It's like living in a fever dream. We warned everyone this is what would happen, their plan was laid bare in p2025, but NO ONE LISTENED!! Now the magas will denounce us as hating our country when their fuhrer and sidekick are handing it over to Putin on a gold platter.
Canadians love their men that want to be ladies. The fact that they don't have to spend money on a military and their discount store medical care. They loved hockey and it was so good it ended up in America. Take off ehh?
As an American, I understand, the Americans should boo with them. Maybe they should all sing a fight song against trump.. at every canadian/American game. Solidarity against the orange clown and his puppet master
I have to say it's really lousy times be an American during this time. Canada, please know that not all of us down here are with this evil MAGA movement and find it disgusting and an embarrassment.
My personal preference is for the audience to sit down while that song is sung. That’s just respectful of the performer. Then rise for our anthem and sing their hearts out.
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So you're just claiming Civil War and Jim Crow reprobates are there too?
Everything is political, sorry boys. You can still shoot your pucks but people are going to boo the anthem
Sports should be for the people, and not act like some elite institution.
As a kid and adult now retired.
Players striking
The Houston Astros cheating and no discernible repercussions.
The game is played by a clock and pitch clock.
The soul of the game was that it could last for hours.
It's sterile.
this isn't the time buddy!
Hmm, but then again. It's hockey!
ok, maybe tennis but not Hocky
Boo away! We are.
We’re protesting and boycotting and flying our flags upside down in distress.
When our good & kind Canadian friends boo us, it’s showing the world something is seriously wrong.
Screw “sportsmanship” right now. Nazis are taking us over!
Boo away, 🇨🇦... though a chant of F*%# Tr-mp would be more accurate and frankly comforting to your USA 🇺🇸 friends opposing the Orange Debacle #nokings #oppose #tuckfrump #sicsempertyrannis #wethepeople ##WeWillRise
Don’t assume that you are the majority because… as can be seen by how your country voted, that is not true.
This craziness has to stop. I love my country. I'm a 21 yr retired Naval Officer and served alongside your Navy. This saddens me beyond words. We ARE so much more... Our Supreme Court Decision - Citizens United has poisoned us.
❤️ Canada.
Also Americans: “Don’t boo our anthem, it hurts our tender feelings.”
Because I want to be very clear, I like the booing
Sports oligarchs are robbing sports enthusiasts blind.
Booing US is only a salve, not a solution. There are a couple hundred million Americans that DID NOT VOTE FOR A DICTATOR.
And, the evidence of cheating to upset the election of Harris/Walz is piling up.
Also, I don't think anyone booing thinks it's a solution. It's an expression of discontent. Given current realities, I really don't care about any notions of sportsmanship or decorum that are making people clutch their pearls
That being said, there is definitely a truck/hockey/fuck trudeau connection.
maybe that person could get hit by a car and then we could scold them if they express animosity towards the car or the driver
No, wait, that's not the saying.
Make sure you teach them how friggin young they were. Gotcha moments eh .
There were no fun days for him as he was shot twice and was on disability from the time he was 19.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJsrcbVGsa4
Mexicans aren’t going anywhere.
Boooooo
There's a big difference.
Boos are merely return-fire by a plucky volunteer militia made up of patriotic sportsmen and women, farm hands, laborers, and more.
Also Hockey reporters: Every Russian should be banned forever from even watching international hockey.
XOXO
I don't think they're that well known so if they're being good faith I don't want to be the person that starts a dogpile on them
If they're being bad faith and just trying to get attention, I don't want to give them what they want.
- Sincerely ,
An American Hockey fan
Make up some lyrics to the same tune, like union boys singing "Dixie", and belt it out in unison louder than the stadium speakers.
Loud jeering makes an alright backup though.
Boo away, Canada, boo away.
2.) america fucked around, now she can find out.
3.) keep up the boos. It ain't hurting nobody's feelings but the fascists.
But I would def. take a knee and bow my head to the boos.