ridenrain ridenrain:
Did you miss out the part on good sportsmanship when they sent you to school in North Korea?
It's a game. It's the same convention that makes all of us play by the same rules, instead of doing whatevr we have to do to win.
To turn it around, has anyone ever heard of Americans booing a foreign teams?
I've never heard of that at all.
As I have said before, much to the chagrin of the resident lefties on CKA, Canada does not want to attract the attention of America this way. I know it is an unequal relationship and it will always be so unless Canada suddenly becomes America's equal in every way.
As anyone who knows me should know, I'm dearly fond of Canada.
That said, if the booing and hissing and name calling from the liberals does not abate, as our Ambassador advised, there will be repercussions.
Canada and the USA have been friends for a long time, but if you boo enough and call our President a moron enough and act like you don't like us, then at what point do you expect us to start paying attention to that?
At some point the general public down here will collectively say, "Hey, Canada hates us."
Once that becomes enough people to win votes for whichever politician panders to the anti-Canada vote then there will be problems.
And softwood and etc. will be the least of them.
Geez Bart, sounds like a pretty one sided friendship if not a very arrogant attitude to take. "Kiss our Butts or you won't like what we do to you". Making threats is basically what you are doing in your post with a "our way or the highway" attitude.
Would I have booed the US Junior team? No, would I have cheered them? again no. I root for the Red and white and I really don't care who we are playing. As long as Canada wins, I don't care what happens in any other game. If a bunch of retards feel the need to back slap because they are getting media coverage for their stupidness, so be it, as for the President noticing, I would be very surprised seems how JR hockey in the USA has about the same appeal to the majority of your countrymen as Al Quaida. Check out the attendance at the tournament hosted in Boston a few years back, EMPTY. This even in an NHL city and ameteur hockey hotbed. North Dakota would have been the same if not for the close proximity of the Canadian border to fill the stands. I am really sure JWB has more important things on his plate than worrying about a hockey game involving a team I am so very sure he does not even know exists, in Vancouver.