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San Jose Sharks fans loudly booed the Canadian national anthem
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From the Associated Press:
San Jose Sharks fans loudly booed the Canadian national anthem Sunday night before Game 5 of their team's second-round playoff series with the Edmonton Oilers.
The vociferous booing started from the opening notes of singer Annmarie Martin's rendition of "O Canada." While other fans attempted to drown it out by singing along, the boos were audible until the final notes.
Pregame anthem booing was a hot-button issue in sports shortly after the beginning of the war in Iraq, with fans in Chicago's Wrigley Field, Montreal's Bell Centre and other arenas booing their neighbors' anthem from 2002-04.
There was no apparent political motive for the booing in San Jose - just a questionable expression of the fans' dislike of the Oilers, who won the last two games in Edmonton to tie the series at two games apiece.
San Jose Sharks fans loudly booed the Canadian national anthem Sunday night before Game 5 of their team's second-round playoff series with the Edmonton Oilers.
The vociferous booing started from the opening notes of singer Annmarie Martin's rendition of "O Canada." While other fans attempted to drown it out by singing along, the boos were audible until the final notes.
Pregame anthem booing was a hot-button issue in sports shortly after the beginning of the war in Iraq, with fans in Chicago's Wrigley Field, Montreal's Bell Centre and other arenas booing their neighbors' anthem from 2002-04.
There was no apparent political motive for the booing in San Jose - just a questionable expression of the fans' dislike of the Oilers, who won the last two games in Edmonton to tie the series at two games apiece.
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§fans ask for ALL Canidan players to be sent home
a growing lobby is calling for the sharks to fire all their Canidian players as reporter in the SJ "mercy" news
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§Are you out of your minds ?
You guys really want to send home the Canadians ? I am not sure you will have the same calibure of hockey south of the border if you do that ! Us Canadians still make up more than 50% of the NHL...Most of the really elite players come from Russia/Sweden/ Cech/Fins and Canada...not the United States...You guys play baseball, football and basketball (oh yeah and there is Nascar to) not hockey in the same volume that we do...You can send our boys home..we would love to have them anytime...
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§Great, now Canadians are monitoring the site too
because of the Cindy Sheehan flap
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§Shame on anyone who booed the Canadians
Apologies from San Francisco for our trailer trash cousins to the south. No class.
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