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Originally posted by gphi2k
Sorry, but the comment about Canadians BURNING american flags is BULLSH*T. Total bull. I live in Toronto and have COUNTLESS friends who partied on Yonge Street that night. There was no flag burning. A hell of a lot of beer drinking maybe, but not flag burning.
And I think Americans placing a Canadian flag on the floor of the locker room as 'incentive' to win the game in the Olympics is hardly what I'd call good gamesmenship. I'd LOVE to see what would have happened if was the Canadians who had the American flag on the ground. Anyone remember the accidental upsidedown flag incident??? Maybe the 'rumours' that flags were burned her stemmed from the fact that Candians were peeved(right fully so) about the flag on the floor incident. But I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that we did not burn American flags.
Booing another country's national anthem is just plain rude. ESPECIALLY given the fact that just TWO days prior to the boofest there was that little 'accident' in Afganistan. We'd hope our American friends would be a bit nicer to us given the situation. Granted, I don't think any time is ever appropriate to be booing a nation. I don't think anything justifies that.
I'm sorry for the rant, but it is completely untrue that Candians burned U.S. flags after the gold medal game. Needed to set the records straight....
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The question remains, which team booed the other countries anthem first? The game in vancouver vs the red wings or the pistons game.
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