[OT] THIS is American Sportsmanship ??

Tom Cashel said:
And in the playoffs? Come on, what'd you expect? I'm not saying it isn't rude to boo the Canadian anthem and shout "USA!"...I'm just wondering why you expected it not to be rude?

Well, playoffs or not, I can expect booing of another team, but booing a national anthem is an entirely different matter. Just imagine if Toronto fans were to boo the US anthem ...
 

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First I would like to state that it was the Piston basketball fans that did the booing not the red wing hockey fans get your teams straight.

Second Detroit is not some city full of hooligans like the world seems to think.Yes there is a crime problem in the inner city but the large majority of Detroiters are good law abiding citizens.Ask any one who lives here in the detroit area.

And yes the Canuck fans were obnoxoius and threw things on the ice just because there team was losing so I wouldn't talk

As for the Piston fans what they did was reprehensible and I'm ashamed to live in the same city as them.We detrioters share a border with canada they are literally just across the river and we get canadian T.V. I for one no all the words of the canadian anthem.I don't think we as a city dislike canadians.
 

Canadians have been known to boo an American anthem now and then.

I'd rather be a Canucks fan in Detroit than a Yankee fan in Fenway. ;)
 

LostSoul said:
Canadians have been known to boo an American anthem now and then.

I'd rather be a Canucks fan in Detroit than a Yankee fan in Fenway. ;)

I hear that! I am a Yankee fan, and I have been to Fenway :D

In all fairness, one of the greatest moments in American baseball I ever witnessed (on TV) was when the crowd at Fenway sang "New York, New York" shortly after September 11th.

Even long time sporting rivals know deep down that it's only a game, and there are more important things in life.
 

LostSoul said:
I'd rather be a Canucks fan in Detroit than a Yankee fan in Fenway. ;)

True, but I think it'd be worse being a Sox fan in Yankee Stadium (at least this is what my buddy from NYC tells me as I've never actually been to Yankee Stadium. Although, on a side note, the two of us did go down to Baltimore to see a game at Camden Yards. A Sox fan and a Yanks fan sitting in the O's home park rooting for the Phillies. Our hats kind of gave us away, and we did get quite a few puzzled looks...). :)

tKL
 

Lady Dragon said:
First I would like to state that it was the Piston basketball fans that did the booing not the red wing hockey fans get your teams straight.
I never mentioned the Detroit basketball team's name; I can't stand the sport so I don't even know what the team's name was. Someone after me added the Red Wings.
 

Lady Dragon said:

Detroit is not some city full of hooligans like the world seems to think.

I just remember that story from several years ago about the car accident on a bridge in Detroit...two guys in one car and a woman in the other, and the woman, threatened by them, jumped to her death to get away.

Perhaps this sort of thing is the source of some of the bias.
 

Lady Dragon said:
As for the Piston fans what they did was reprehensible and I'm ashamed to live in the same city as them.We detrioters share a border with canada they are literally just across the river and we get canadian T.V. I for one no all the words of the canadian anthem.I don't think we as a city dislike canadians.
Yeah don't let the actions of some drunks out here fool you, we're actually a nice town. And let me guess the show your friends called into, if it was parker and the man, they can be a little abusive.

As for detroit not liking canada in general, most of us think of windsor (or sarnia for you folks from port huron) as just a cleaner part of detroit. :)
 

I never mentioned the Detroit basketball team's name; I can't stand the sport so I don't even know what the team's name was. Someone after me added the Red Wings.

Well, then this whole thread doesn't make any sense. The Detroit Pistons game at the Palace is where the Canadian anthem was boo-ed. And the Wings game in Vancouver is where there were some boos for the American anthem. Although, as I said, at least the anthem ended in cheers, so it was probably just a few bad apples.

Then again, this whole thread is about people making rather offensive generalizations based on a few bad apples, so maybe it belongs after all.

And for those who rag on Detroit: yeah, it's deserved. The roads suck, we were recently selected as the worst city in the nation as far as crime, the city itself looks like leftovers from the Mad Max set (with a few notable exceptions) and the weather absolutely sucks.

However, if you live in the suburbs, its really not that bad...
 

...and THIS is why I don't go to sproting events - ESPECIALLY Hockey. If I want that kind of treatment, I'll wear a Jewish Pride T-shirt at a KKK rally.

Why do fans get so worked up about a sport that they actually don't even PARTICIPATE IN? The players are more civil to opposing teams off the ice than the fans are!

You mentioned sportsmanship - my question is, how did the TEAMS treat each other on the ice? (Besides the pushing, shoving and breaking of teeth that is hockey, of course)
 

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