Bad Taste

Many people have already heard the story today of how fans of the San Jose Sharks Hockey team booed the Canadian national Anthem before Game 5 of the Western Conference Semifinals. I for one am all for pumping up your team, cheering as loudly as possible in support for your team, booing your opponent, but to boo a national anthem is just wrong in my book. For the Edmonton Oilers team, having players from the US from Canada and Europe, the Canadian national anthem is more of a place holder for where the team hails from, not the makeup of where its players hometowns lie. I find it amazing that in todays day and time that the lack of respect is displayed like that, and an utter lack of respect for the anthem of our neighbors to the north.

Maybe this sets me off a lil because of my newfound affection for Canada and what it has given me, not only the girl I love, but the "American" car I own was assembled and then shipped to the states through Canada.

In today's age of national tension over immigration, I would think that Americans could still have the respect for the anthems of other countries when playing in the US. It doesn't matter if the team is Canadian, Mexican, Japanese, Albanian or Iranian, if they are playing a game here in the states, they have every right to hear their anthem and for the fans attending to have the respect for the players and teams from that country.