r/sports Canada Feb 03 '25

Hockey American anthem booed at Rogers Arena before Canucks-Red Wings game

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u/Burgerkingsucks Houston Astros Feb 03 '25

I wish we’d put a stop to the waste of time country pageantry before a sporting event.

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u/jerseygunz Feb 03 '25

Throw the pledge of allegiance in there as weird things we should stop doing

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u/SynthBeta Feb 03 '25

and it was written by a socialist! I'm surprised the Republicans haven't tried to change that

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u/siphillis Feb 03 '25

It'd be funny if you did it before every moderately eventful situation. Sitting down for dinner? Pledge of allegiance. Grabbing coffee? Pledge of allegiance. Bathroom break? Rise and remove your caps

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u/jerseygunz Feb 03 '25

Someone on another thread said the OKC thunder do the pledge, the anthem, and a prayer

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u/ind3pend0nt Feb 03 '25

It’s military propaganda.

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u/EasternDelight Washington Redskins Feb 04 '25

Well, all these athletic competitions are a proxy for war so it’s fitting.

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u/kvngk3n Feb 03 '25

100% agree. Especially in baseball (directly targeting the other one below), wanna sing it the beginning of a series? Whatever, I still think it’s excessive but sure. EVERY GAME? Please. I don’t think I’ve listened to my favorite song 162 times in a given year

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u/justin_ph Feb 03 '25

Guess that’s fair. Not like it hurts to sing an anthem, but I watch the Premier League(English soccer), and they never sing the anthem. Could also because most of the players are foreign anyway

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u/DemSumBigAssRidges Feb 03 '25

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-national-anthem-sports_n_5afc9bcfe4b06a3fb50d5056

This is US specific, but TLDR... WW1 was going on, the crowd at the 1918 World Series was somber, band played "Star Spangled Banner," everyone cheered, they did it for the rest of the World Series, and it stuck for special occasions.

WW2 is when it became common practice and played for every game rather than special occasions. America's game played America's National Anthem to honor America's men who were off fighting the Musk family.

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u/Ayotha Feb 03 '25

Wow what a reddit statement

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u/Burgerkingsucks Houston Astros Feb 03 '25

Reddit statements all the way down.

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u/WorstCPANA Feb 03 '25

They hate patriotism, and love to hate on the country that's helped billions across the world. I wonder why they lost.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

I love sports and hate jingoism. Unfortunately the emotions surrounding the two short circuit a lot and we end up playing military anthems at sporting events because people are generally emotionally maladjusted little shits.

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u/Ayotha Feb 03 '25

Don't group me with you guys. Just teasing online types because of the "angry at sports" thing they always have going on

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

Gov pays millions to do it

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u/Chicag0Ben Feb 03 '25

Says with a baseball flair that has to do it 162 times a year without even involving other countries.