So is ESPN gonna act like Portland didn't do the crowd singing of the national anthem first

And of course he's a Mass----.

 

What a weird thing to get your panties in a bunch about.

 

Well Dills, you know as well as I do, that the Timbers Army could not have been the first one's to do the anthem accapella in MLS because we have done it at every home game since the inception of the Union in 2010. We may not have been the first, or even the first in MLS, but we sure as hell beat the Timbers to it! It was probably the Sounders. We all know that Seattle invented everything. Portland just has a huge Seattle wannabe complex.

 

Portlandians, maybe, but Oregonians did shoot down an initiative to legalize the ganj.

 

Just wait until the meth legalization movement gets going!

 

That day will be awe- OH MY GOD THERE ARE BEES IN MY TEETH!!!!

 

The fans singing of the national anthem was first done during game one of the 1994 World Series......and 62% of facts are made up on the spot

 

Mariners vs Expos....I remember it well. Great series.

 

The Boston crowd sounded better than Portland anyway.

 

Washington would legalise that first also. http://www.methpedia.org/

 

Nice try...but it was actually the 1524 iteration of the CONCACAF Quidditch Platinum Cup of MegaHappy Awesomeness. It was won by Yugoslavia, by the way, when they defeated the United States of (native) America in the largest upset of all time.

 

Didn't I say....I was just going with modern day sporting events. Of course the 1524 CONCACAF Quidditch Platinum Cup of MegaHappy Awesomeness was the first instance.

 

You guys forgot the great Mornington Crescent match of 1438, where the English anthem was also sung by the fans.

 

Imitation-Americans don't count.

 

The English aren't imitation Americans, they're prototype Americans.

and you guys are all forgetting the time that the entire crowd at The Coliseum, on it's opening day mind you, spontaneously broke out in The Star Spangled Banner, sung in perfect English...

 

I admit that my understanding of this event may be a bit off, but weren't they singing an old Saxon rebel song, rather than an anthem. The Saxons had been biding their time for centuries, digging elaborate underground tunnels under Norman controlled London. They finally got tired of all the LARPing in France by the Kings, and arose from their "tubes" to proclaim their true Englishness. It was all ado about nothing though, as no one with knowledge of the written word "had a clue" what was being sung.
There is some evidence in the late 13th century that the Japanese bushi gathered along the coast to greet the Mongols, made a lot of farting noises with their hands and armpits while their guests floundered in a storm. They thought this sport so comical, they even fashioned a song to it. Kimigayo, yo.

 

Damn, you got me there

 

Bah, the Romans appropriated our Greek gods, and they obviously are appropriating Greek history too. The first fan rendition of the Star Spangled Banner was clearly at the first Olympiad in 776 BC.

 

If the show Spartacus has taught us anything, it's that in Ancient Rome, EVERYONE (Romans, Thracians, Gauls, etc) all spoke perfect English. So yeah, singing of the Star Spangled Banner MUST go back at least this far.

 

Some of them even had British accents, to boot.

 

Those were the days...

 

True. In fact grass is so sacred around here that the Timbers refuse to even play on it.

 

"You talkin' about singin' at ballgames?!?
Portland is made of spare ribs kid."---Harry Caray