Eh.
Unsure what forum to put this in, but it’s kinda fun. When the singer of the US national anthem’s microphone cut out, the Leaffans spontaneously finished the anthem. Good on ya.
I saw that this morning…good showing.
I have to ask though; do all Canadians know the words to the Star Spangled Banner, or are we missing part of the story? I’d gladly fill in if I were at a Sharks game and there was a similar malfunction, but I don’t think I’d get too far:
O Canada,
Our proud and native land
…
something, something, so-omething
…
O Canada,
We stand on guard for thee!
Our “home” and native land.
Yeah, we know the words to The Star Spangled Banner. We drink your Kool-Aid daily. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. You’re the elephant next door.
Aw…thanks, Canadians! You guys are pretty cool.
I’m still embarrassed by my USMC bretheren who couldn’t fly your flag correctly all those years ago - it was for a World Series game, IIRC. And I led my unit’s color guard for a few years, too.
That was amusing. Yeah, the flag got raised upside down. There was some media attention, but most Canadians got a chuckle out of it. It was an honest mistake, and seriously, we don’t hold our flag in the same kind of reverence that you folks do. I mean, we like our flag, but it’s just a damned flag.
To be fair, Canadian sports fans probably hear the “Star Spangled Banner” much more often than American’s hear “Oh Canada.” As a baseball fan, I hear the latter only when my team plays Toronto, and that may only be at their home games. I do hear it more often following hockey, but I’d guess maybe twenty times a year. A Candain hockey fan would hear ours maybe sixty times a year and a Blue Jays fan at every game if they play it for a visiting team and half the games if they play it only when the Jays are visiting.
I think most hockey fans in the US have heard “O Canada” enough to make at least a decent attempt at crowd-singing it if a microphone went down at a game. I’m off to learn some lyrics, but I know the tune.
Doubt it would have happened in Montreal, though. Especially if Boston was in town.