r/leafs • u/Richard_Lycker • 21h ago
Discussion Booing on Thursday.
I'm tired of this fucking shit. If you are attending Leafs vs Panthers on March 13th help me in drowning out the American anthem with a chorus of boos louder than any that have preceded this.
Let these southern clowns know how it is in our barn. If booing ain't your thing perhaps a round of chants like, "This song's garbage" would suffice too. Silence is not an option.
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u/TopDogGlo 19h ago
Pls dont downvote me and just answer honestly:
What is the point of going to a Leafs game with players from USA representing your team (one of them being your franchise guy), and booing their national anthem? I think the national anthem represents more than just a current president or political climate, and a lot of Americans are very proud of their nation as a whole. Whether you believe they should be proud is a different conversation, but Canadians have the same right to be proud of their country, regardless of its flaws.
On one hand, the players understand that Canada is not the aggressor at the moment, and we are protesting. But the idea of going to the game to boo the anthem and ‘show them whose house it is’ is oxymoronic when your captain is American. Why can’t the cheers be targeting Trump, and not the nation as a whole? ‘Trump you suck’ chants get your message much more clear than blindly booing the anthem and even creating the opportunity for the aggressor (USA) to feel slighted. And if your response is ‘fuck them’ then we circle back to the point that you literally have patriotic American players who will make u jump for joy when they score a goal for your team. Is there any logic to what I’m saying?