Steve Conan Trustrum
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First Detroit fans boo the Canadian anthem when the Raptors played there this weekend (and kept shouting "USA! USA! USA!" instead of "Go Detroit!") and now the NY fans boo it when the Leafs played there last night. What is up with this? Is this what passes for sportsmanship south of the border these days?
3 friends of mine were at the Detroit game, as were huge amounts of other Raptor fans, and without them the attendence for that game would have been 2/3 what it was. Two of my friends got hit in the head by a drunken Detroit teen and the ushers refused to remove her because "she had paid for her ticket like everyone else" until my friends threatened to call the police for serving minors. Then they were harrassed by Detroit fans running through the empty row in front of them shouting things like "Go home, EH!" and "We don't want you here!". When driving back, these friends called into a Detroit sports show and explained what poor experience they'd had at the game and the host hung up on them and said over the air "if you Canucks don't like it, stay north of the border where you belong." Is this sportsmanship?
Thankfully, all hope is not lost because a few of the other Detroit fans were apparrently approaching every Raptor fan they could see and apologizing for their fellow fans that make Americans seem like such poor sportsmen.
3 friends of mine were at the Detroit game, as were huge amounts of other Raptor fans, and without them the attendence for that game would have been 2/3 what it was. Two of my friends got hit in the head by a drunken Detroit teen and the ushers refused to remove her because "she had paid for her ticket like everyone else" until my friends threatened to call the police for serving minors. Then they were harrassed by Detroit fans running through the empty row in front of them shouting things like "Go home, EH!" and "We don't want you here!". When driving back, these friends called into a Detroit sports show and explained what poor experience they'd had at the game and the host hung up on them and said over the air "if you Canucks don't like it, stay north of the border where you belong." Is this sportsmanship?
Thankfully, all hope is not lost because a few of the other Detroit fans were apparrently approaching every Raptor fan they could see and apologizing for their fellow fans that make Americans seem like such poor sportsmen.