honestly the Canadian teams should just stop performing the Star-Spangled Banner before their events. It's not really fair to the performer nor is it fair to the American players who had nothing to do with why people are booing it!
Yeah--the examples I've seen have been young Black women who have consistently led the fight against US fascism up to and including the last election. Boo the hell out of a recording.
Perhaps we could turn our backs on it, take a metaphically knee,,if you will. It would be better - I'm dreaming, but still - better if we didn't attend at all. Let it all go quiet, the sound of a silent doom to match dark times.
But it has a lot to do with their team owners, who are billionaires and Trump supporters and contributors. Fuck them. Let them hear it or get told about it.
The performer should take a knee while singing the anthem, try to elicit louder consistent boos and the crowd should applaud the performer when finished.
Very true. Not directed at blue voters who bothered to vote—directed at 77.3 million who voted for T and the blue voters in swing states who stayed home bc angry with Biden or didn’t want to vote for a woman of colour
Nah buddy. America, …it’s your f-ing guy whether you like it or not, and America is attacking our country. He literally said his plan of taking over out loud via a f-ing tweet FFS. Please, (using an American term) ‘Fuck Your Feelings’ …we’ll keep playing the anthem. We’ll keep booing.
I read a great idea yesterday. The US anthem should just be a recording of the music, so we can boo it and not have to worry about the performer feeling disrespected.
Agreed. National anthems before pro sports events are an abomination, save them for national team stuff. It's just one of those weird American things that us Canadians have been bullied into going along with.
The ones who are American citizens are just as culpable for this bullshit as any other American. We all got blood on our hands for letting this happen. Read Burden Of Guilt if you need further convincing.
The idea of playing a national anthem before domestic matches is anathema to me as a Brit tbh, and you could probably just yeet it. Felt that when the CK7 protest happened, feel that way now.
Lot of people don’t remember this wasn’t really a thing in the US before 9/11. This is a remnant of jingoism and hatred and if this is what kills it, good, I say.
This was 100% a thing prior to 9/11. Things like veterans nights or GBA during the 7th inning stretch increased, but the national anthem has been standard for a long time.
I tried not standing for the Pledge one day when I was a kid in school, and the teacher scolded me for “disrespecting everyone that died for this country”. They love guilt-tripping people into patriotism
I'll see the effusive praise for the monarchy and raise you "We had this worthless war where you burned the Capitol and White House and we finally won a battle after a peace treaty was signed but for whatever reason, you missed the flag when you were shelling Fort McHenry" in an unsingable key.
That's true. And both of them inevitably end with "Oh crap. Should have started an octave lower" with the US going full tilt into everyone sounding like Edith Bunker as we screech out "For the la-and of the free"
Seriously, even if we weren't antagonizing every friendly country on the planet, we should yeet The Star Spangled Banner into the sun and replace it with America the Beautiful or just see if Bruce Springsteen can do what he did for New Jersey multiple times and write something that doesn't suck.
Isn’t the reason they play this because they’re playing an American team so they do both anthems? So all their games are international unless Vancouver gets a team back.
Having said that, I don’t personally care much at all to be clear.
Similarly, London NFL games have both anthems (which is an actively hilarious compare-and-contrast between our dull stately anthem and the bombastic, brutal-to-sing American one)
I guess there’s a part of me that’s sad for this. How far down we’ve slid so quickly (we’ve sucked 4ever but hello history this is fucking huge) feels like a gut punch to my dead parents who believed in our country. A deep southern dem married to a ny gop. Na. Yippee. Keep booing. It’s fitting
they might have been league mandated before him, but both the Raptors and Blue Jays are stuck in always playing against American teams. The NHL can at least have two Canadian teams facing off and avoid this
I dunno maybe the Canadian singer would like to boo too. Think of it as a non violent protest, much like taking a knee, against country that is trying to economical destroy us so he can acquire us. But let’s just stop with the silly anthem thing in general.
The performers have a choice.
They can either sing a song that glorifies the US, a nation that's working to destroy and assimilate Canada, or they can say 'no thanks' to the job.
I'm American, and I remember thinking it was extremely weird that they played the American national anthem before a hockey game I attended in *Glasgow*. I think it's weird and jingoistic to play it before games in America; it's extra weird to do it in other countries.
They should start the first line of the anthem, let the crowd take over for the middle (like they do sometimes during playoffs), then sing the last line. Lots of opportunity to protest in there, and seemingly not against any guidelines for the leagues.
I disagree. Sure, it’s unpleasant for the singer & the American players, but it is certainly sending into the homes of Americans watching the feelings widely held by their closest trading partner and long-term historical ally. Don’t like it? Protest loudly against the rapist demagogue they elected.
I think it’s important for all Americans, including performers & players, to realize what tRump is doing to our reputation & our country. He is insulting, demeaning, & threatening our closest allies. What did they expect the Canadian crowd to do?
I see what you are saying, but it is their right to boo. Perhaps this even causes some people to find a trustworthy source of news that will help them realize why people are so upset. I am sure the artist understands it has nothing to do with the performance
This is like saying, "This is not the appropriate time to talk about gun control" after a school shooting. The US has declared economic war against its neighbours for no reason.
American players will just have to learn to deal with it. The United States has declared economic war on our country. You’ll excuse us if we don’t really care about the hypersensitivities of Americans to their national anthem.
Spot on! All Americans need to shut the hell up about what Canada and Mexico should do. The faster they bitch slap the USA, the faster this might be over. What trump and his posse have done to our friends in Canada is abhorrent. I’m ashamed and so so sorry.
that said, I agree with the performer, and if they want to continue playing it, which i think is still an obsolete tradition, they should probably be using a recording.
American teams should stop playing the star spangled banner as well. No one should be forced, explicitly or implicitly, to participate in nationalist propaganda just to watch or play sports.
Originally? To support the troops in WWII. Now? It's really just the inertia of tradition, but I think it's a requirement of the various leagues - I don't believe the Raptors or Senators or whoever can just decide not to have anthems, it'd have to be the NBA/NHL/etc.
I don't even want to think about how this is all going to look like next year when Canada , the US and Mexico are supposed to host the World Cup together. Internally i'm already accepting that it will have to be relocated to somewhere in Europe because the US is at war with Mexico .
I’d be good with it. We don’t deserve Canada’s respect right now. But we should make sure we cheer loudly for the Canadian national anthem when it’s played here.
We love y'all back, its the orange menace & gop quislings we despise. Not americans in general. Just the broligarchs funding this nonsense & maga idiots who voted him in cause mad at wimmin & dei
American teams should stop performing it too, but just because performing anthems in front of games by club teams is dumb and is only done for performative patriotism.
It's a tradition when they are close to the border or athletes both countries are involved. They play both anthems at the Indycar race in Detroit as well.
Starting to think we need a safe word or passphrase so when the Canadian army liberates us they know who not to shoot. Maybe… “Jesus Murphy, Trumps a hoser”?
That reminds me of a story I heard about a Canadian who lost their passport abroad. On returning, the customs officers officer asked for the phone number for Pizza Pizza when the Canadian didn't have his passport. He recites it. The customs officer says 'You're Canadian, welcome home!"
The postcode is etched into my brain because they would give the mailing address for different CBC shows at the end of every one, in the days before Internets and e-mail.
Please though, push back yourselves! Canada 🇨🇦 could never win this battle by ourselves. At least we have our freedom, our democracy. We will suffer for that. At 67 I don’t know America anymore.It is rotting and looks more and more like pre-war Nazi Germany. Please fight back mostly for yourselves.
Makes my heart swell with patriotism as a Canadian. Maybe if Americans finally did some soul searching about how they over tolerated the right-wing intolerance for 20 years.
Allowing the right wing to lie incessantly for 30 years. On Fox, CNN guests, online shows
If this drags on and expands what will be the option for Canadian teams like the Raptors and the Blue Jays that need cross in to the US frequently? I can see either side starting to restrict travel if things escalate. Forfeit? Relocate to the US temporarily?
America you really are a the dumbest girl at the prom. Roe fell and young women and men, decided to sit this out again. Many for Gaza. Now Trump, a criminal, is sitting down with Netanyahu, another criminal, to discuss Gaza’s future. You really can’t make this ignorant shit up. Americans are dumb!
Donald Trump has officially declared through an executive order that everyone on Earth is transgender. He signed an executive order stating that sex is determined at conception. HOWEVER, every person on Earth develops sex at about one month AFTER conception. We ALL change gender at one month.
Tribalism. Our species has a hubris problem because we're the smartest species on the planet
All the other creatures are stupid pretty stupid.
History stands on the back of the few exceptional, on average we're pretty stupid too. I'd say a bit more than 50% of humanity is this.
I remember a few years ago when a Canadian singer lost her way on the Star Spangled Banner and the Canadian fans joined together and finished it for her. It was awesome.
I worked for Canadian companies for about 12 years or so before retirement. You have been stabbed in the back. Words are not sufficient to articulate my disappointment. I can only apologize for myself. We have truly, let you down.
I don’t want you folks to suffer any more than my fellow Canadians. That said we will do what we have to. I don’t want you to feel ashamed either, that can mute the anger and blunt the focus I’d like to see from more Americans in the face of this.
Something I am miserably aware of. If I had the capacity to leave I would.
Fortunately assface is already stammering and going "err wait" in response to the first round of response tariffs. Keep it up, Canada and Mexico. These 4 years are gonna suck.
This "not all Americans" shit is really starting to sound like another "not all..." situation. Whether you personally voted for him or not, he's a problem we all created. I'm glad other countries are fighting back & not rolling over to show their bellies to him when our own dems are kissing the ring
Looking forward to a canned ssb performance from here on out so that these poor singers dont have to put up with the humiliation of having to sing an anthem about my wretched country
Agreed but it is ordinary Americans who should be leading the fight. He’s robbing you and taking away your freedom. Seriously, America looks like pre-war Nazi Germany. This is madness. This is seriously dangerous.
I honestly hope Americans are pariahs in the entire world for a long time. We earned this. Maybe our great-grandchildren won't be idiots. Or maybe we'll be invaded by someone civilized who will help us evolve.
#goals
From one human to another, I sincerely hope Trump and his cronnies are deposed, the Nazis driven back to the pit from whence they came, and we can go back to being good neighbors soon
It's sickening to the pit of my stomach that the U.S. has so many outright
STUPID EVIL SELFISH FUCKS.
The fascist slime needs wiped from our boot heel. This administration, all of it's enablers are complicit in the fuckery they've unleashed.
Embarrassed doesn't begin to do it justice. Fuck MAGA.
We spent 20 years in Afghanistan with America fighting side by side and losing our warriors in the process and for no particular legitimate reason Trump puts a 25% tariff on us and talks about annexation. Canadians are feeling like we have been stubbed in the back.
100%. We understand who you are booing. I didn’t vote for this. Many didn’t, I suspect it will soon be the majority as this will hurt us too, some here just aren’t educated enough to know this yet. They soon will
Aa Canadian what the heck are you prepared to do about it? So far nothing. Your politicians are sycophants, cowards; boot-lickers, the Dems are pathetically weak, The imbecile’s cabinet is a rogue gallery of lunatics. NO PUSHBACK from Americans yet as he robs you and takes away your freedoms.
listen, here's the deal... we know that. but you don't get to play patriotic music celebrating your country that is currently THREATENING TO ANNEX US in our stadiums and expect a polite response.
Sorry but not voting because you're "really not into politics", or "don't care", is tacit support. In a democracy it is every citizens civic duty to express their political choice. You don't escape responsibility by abstaining, especially when it affects so many others. Most.
If you wonder how us the roommates in this mad meth lab feel: I'm in Michigan and my natural gas comes from Canada and if you guys cut the supply off in Feb, I won't be angry.
Americans who DID NOT vote for the Felon illegally holding the WH hostage feels raped up the butt and the 25% tariff is a way of gaslighting the rest of us by telling us how lucky we are it’s only 25%
O Canada, this is just and proper, and as an American toiling in a red state, I stand on guard for thee. Appreciate you.
This is a model for feckless American Dems attached to norms. Canadians are one of the kindest nationalities and appreciate norms and tradition and stoicism- BUT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Those feckless dems are a good reminder that Canada started fighting Hitler in 1939 and it took the US until late 1941. Dems need to lead, follow, or get out of the way
I think you'll find a lot of Dutch people (not so much the immigrants, as they don't have the same WWII history), would happily sign up to defend Canada, in a heartbeat. We have a history with you guys, and no amount of Trumpian BS will erase that from our history books!
I’ve had older Dutch people and French people from Normandy buy me drinks and tell their stories about the war (which ended more than a quarter century before I was born - but they wanted me to know how much they appreciated Canadians)
it would be hilarious if the Canadian hockey teams straight-up refused to play US hockey teams. force a major sports league to deal with the consequences of that fuckers actions lol
Pro sports are corporate events that don’t need fake, and sometimes paid for, patriotism. Wanna save some money? Quit paying the NFL and others for their faketriotism.
As a US citizen please stay strong and don't back down. There are millions of us who are sadly depending on our neighbors to the north and south (who didn't ask to be dragged into this) to disrupt their lives to help us stop Trump.
We the people are going to have to raise the volume on this a***** Trump. He's trying to do everything everywhere at the same time, we need to fight him but not on his terms. This is going to be a throwback to the 1970s. We have to get on the street, we need to protest loud, and then get in his face
We're waiting for an organized resistance and leaders who people will follow. The administration's current antics are an attempt to distract and demoralize people from organizing en masse.
How else can Democrats take over the new cycle,besides being in the street every day this will give us multiple options to express our opinion and be in the news.The high ground is attention,attention of people so they don't miss the truth, his flurry of lies that are meant to confuse the people.
Let us imagine what this conflict look like when we have people on the street in DC,New York,Mar-A-Lago & New Jersey. Pushing back making noise, making news coverage, getting the word out, getting people motivated, making a difference, being out there,seeing results of our fight & Focused Attention
I'm an American. Please boo. At least you're doing something unlike our feckless Congress. You're a bigger voice than our elected representatives. Remember most of the country is against this. ✌🏼🇨🇦
Sorry it has to be this way now, though. Please understand we hate doing it, but we’ll never be the 51st state. Fuck the lunatics. Most of you aren’t that.
I'm booing and I'm an American... I just bought an entirely black American flag to hang in protest ...I'm going to purchase a Canadian flag & a Mexican to hang with it... I stand with our neighbors to the north and south against this fascist regime!!!
Only 49% of American voters chose Trump. Literally the majority of us are anti all of this madness. I hope our kinder friends to the north can remember that fact.
Not even 49% of American voters; 49% of those who actually voted (though I of course also blame those who stayed home and didn't vote -- they are as culpable as the Trump voters)
Thank you John. Please don’t be offended. To re-post something I posted earlier: “It is not the American people who are the target of the booing—it is the current American government and the despicable, unwarranted, and unnecessary attacks on Canada (two of the world’s closest allies).” ❤️
And the other 51% are happily sitting back and watching and doing nothing to prevent it. We will burn your fascist nation to the ground because you are all to blame for this. Every. Single. One.
Process this - The leader of a foreign country (Canada) was more effective in one speech on Saturday night than any opposition in the US. Democrats are MIA.
So you’re coming at me? “Process this?” Yes I have processed my party letting me down for 2 years now. Bernie certainly isn’t MIA. You’re just factually inaccurate if you think so. And I know a lot about how pointless it is to debate someone who denies facts. They’re called my family.
Not coming at you, but you have directly made my point. Where is the opposition party? The Democrats are just as much to blame for this situation. I liked Biden but, by God, was he the best that they could bring forward for 2024? The media has also journalistically lost their way.
Um, who was the first presidential candidate brought forward by the Democrats? Invaluable campaigning time was lost. The party had no choice but to go to Harris.
You have every right to be. Disgusted with the majority of this fuckin country(I'm an embarrassed American). Haven't been proud of America since the orange nightmare was elected the 1st time
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿.I myself don't even pledge to no anthem, or salute no flag.👍🏿😊. Alot of us Americans dont. I stand with Canada. And I loved the Montreal vacation my daughter gifted me with!😊.
Same. I don’t say the pledge. Never have. I don’t salute or stand during the anthem either. Blame my military father. 😂 He said, “This county doesn’t love or respect its people, don’t give it any respect it didn’t earn.” Didn’t take me long to see and feel what he meant.
Please do! In fact, I wouldn't blame you at all if you threw eggs instead of boos. I have cousins in Canada and had hoped to build stronger ties with them. My trumper relatives are making it very difficult.
Solidarity. Big, "Kiss my ass!" to the fucking ignorant shitshow our stupid fucking dickless, brainless, hopelessly cruel scumbag president, his party/cult sycophants and his rube voters brought upon all of us across the globe who find this utterly STUPID AND FUCKED UP.
Sick to hurt our allies.
It’s sad that a nation once looked upon with admiration is now scorned & belittled everywhere thanks to a greed, fat, felonious, corrupt, farting Tangerine Tyrant PRETENDsident.
Hey look, another example of how Dems lost the election by trying to sound so perfect and executing soo poorly. Oh wait, NDP ? That well oiled machine ?
No one is perfect and to imply racism isn’t recognized is a pure disconnect to DEI attacks in the US no where found here.
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You do not what it to applied to all, then get out there and protest. March on Washington and get him tarred and feathered.
It's for Trump, not for everyday pro-democracy Americans
He declared war on us today. Literally. Excuse us for booing.
https://bsky.app/profile/waynechow.bsky.social/post/3lh7mz7u66c2l
At least in the NFL.
Not at all healthy
Having said that, I don’t personally care much at all to be clear.
but then again we just shouldn't be playing the national anthem before games in general, it's weird
They can either sing a song that glorifies the US, a nation that's working to destroy and assimilate Canada, or they can say 'no thanks' to the job.
No?
Then they are an enemy.
You’re the baddies, America. Unless proven otherwise.
Americans should become more self-aware.
I am patriotic. I don't need to show it by standing up at a sports event for 2 minutes
When can we speak?
We have issues with Trump, not with Americans
🫡🍁
Let them boo.
On the other hand, absofuckinglutely not
Don't subject the Canadian signing the anthem to that ridicule.
Well we would boo. We got a lot of attention with that.
Is that all.
We fought their tariffs with tariffs of our own.
That’s not very smart.
Boo!
But those tariffs are still in place now.
Boo!
So that’s all you got?
Boo!
I’m done.
They’re Canadian
They can’t vote in American elections.
I wrote it.
So they are Canadians.
All most of them can do is boo to show their didpleasure with what is happening.
I built off of that.
Had a little fun.
My other fav is V4G 1N4.
And H0H 0H0.
movement is just what we need right now. Trump is an historical accelerator. More of this please.
The world and majority of Americans feel the exact same way.
Fuck Trump his nazi musk wife and his dipshit cabinet cultists
Allowing the right wing to lie incessantly for 30 years. On Fox, CNN guests, online shows
https://youtu.be/R18h5NmmhQc?si=-PNhaidQrH7UB5VU
It’s delicious the retaliation aims at red states.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEwjS5MX6No
All the other creatures are stupid pretty stupid.
History stands on the back of the few exceptional, on average we're pretty stupid too. I'd say a bit more than 50% of humanity is this.
Was it the anthem , or her appalling voice , or both 😂😂
Like, damn. I'm not a crazy flag waving person but I like where I live, or I did.
It's fed by a bubbling national spring of patriotism. Boo.
Fortunately assface is already stammering and going "err wait" in response to the first round of response tariffs. Keep it up, Canada and Mexico. These 4 years are gonna suck.
Dyson vacuum cleaner suck.
#goals
From one human to another, I sincerely hope Trump and his cronnies are deposed, the Nazis driven back to the pit from whence they came, and we can go back to being good neighbors soon
STUPID EVIL SELFISH FUCKS.
The fascist slime needs wiped from our boot heel. This administration, all of it's enablers are complicit in the fuckery they've unleashed.
Embarrassed doesn't begin to do it justice. Fuck MAGA.
He majored in how to turn a great country into a shit-hole country.
Hope she did not take it personally.
Fucking traitor
Uber patriotic obstinance is their wheelhouse.
Sorry, not sorry; our country deserves it.
This is a model for feckless American Dems attached to norms. Canadians are one of the kindest nationalities and appreciate norms and tradition and stoicism- BUT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
MAGA’s heads are going to explode.
The public needs to be able to express their opinion too.
There were times when Canadian crowds would loudly sing the US anthem at a hockey game if the anthem singer forget the words or the microphone failed.
Those times seem to have passed.
Is that what it means to be great again?
Becoming the most hated nation on the planet?
Achievements in the last two weeks? Wow.
And Americans keep taking it in the ass passively.
Repulsive.
Everyone should.
We have deliberately abandoned all reason, and deserve scorn from every other civilized nation.
https://abcnews.go.com/538/vote-back-trump/story?id=109090626
Providing detail that it's a majority backing Trump has chased you away?
It's harvest time.
It just takes us a long time to openly show disdain. We don't like it. It's not natural for us on a grand scale but here we are.
BooooHoooo
Canada strong 🇨🇦.
Sick to hurt our allies.
We are booing a government who is actively trying to colonize us. We aren't polite we just dropped passive from aggressive for a hockey game.
No one is perfect and to imply racism isn’t recognized is a pure disconnect to DEI attacks in the US no where found here.
Get over it.
I work, associate and function across all genre and nature by shutting the fuck up
Happy black history month.