All I was saying was it’s an annoyance before the game. I’m sure they are just fine putting up with to collect their paycheck here.
I assume they get used to it, but I always wondered if it was weird for American hockey players playing for Canadian teams, or vice versa, hearing a national anthem before the game and it's not theirs.
The inevitable “like it or leave it” comment, thus signifying the upcoming shitshow that this thread will become lol.
I believe the NBA and maybe sometimes the NFL will do the anthems while the team is in the locker room. For the CCC and Leagues Cup they do it when the teams are in the locker room. And Liga MX requested not to have the Mexican anthem played.
Or being European and having to listen to the American and Canadian anthems. Of course, the irony is that if (I don’t know if this is the case or not, but let’s pretend) Russia played their anthem before every single game, they’d be nationalistic fascists. We do it, we’re patriotic red blooded Americans. Ah, perspective.
Really? If the players were in the locker rooms during the anthem, why was there so much hullaballoo over kneeling during it?
It's nothing of the sort. Retract your leftism. Foreign players on an American team aren't immigrants. They're employees hired for a job. Presumably they have other options. You remind me of the steel mill I used to work with where some women sued to get jobs in plant maintenance. When they won, they showed up and were appalled that pipefitters and millwrights and such had obscene pictures in their lockers and used rather, shall we say, coarse language. So they sued again to make it all get cleaned up. They wanted in, OK fine. Then they don't get to bitch about it. It's not like my oldest son's fiance, who I bought dinner and nice tickets to a game and then refused to stand for the national anthem knowing full well that it would piss me off. I was personally offended, but she is an American, born and raised, and has every right to behave boorishly if that's her choice.
Down, boy. The first post on this tangent mentioned that foreign-born players might find it "annoying." As a result of it not being a normal thing for them. I don't see any mention of such players actually complaining about it.
I don’t understand your point, besides going off of the deep end of what has been, up to this point, a rather civilized thread.
Some years ago I went to the opera in Cincinnati at Music Hall and was surprised when instead of the overture, the orchestra launched into the Star Spangled Banner. Apparently it's their tradition on opening night of the opera season. Anyway, the audience belted it out and technically we all sang at the opera!
I don’t see how pointing out that the use of the anthem can be viewed in multiple ways is controversial. I also don’t see how when someone says “if you don’t like where you live and work then leave” as a “like it or leave it” comment is controversial either. Furthermore, I don’t see how bringing up the possibility that the single most divisive issue in America the last five years (outside trump, covid, and abortion) in the Kapernick kneeling debacle, is in anyway helpful, which is what my facepalm gif was referencing .
It isn’t whether or not something is controversial. My point was that you mention how this thread will inevitably become a sh!tshow, then you contribute to said sh!tshow.