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Originally Posted by marc26
i dont even care if i rile some of you up
so, you know my opinion about the brit boxing fans coming to vegas and imposing their songs in every hotel lobby and bar they happen to be in
regardless that other people paid their hard earned money to stay in those hotels also
so, although i dont particualry like it i sort of admire their fan spirit
fair enough
so what do they proceed to do at the arena?
they booed the US National Anthem throughout
a complete classless act by a bunch of hooligans
regardless of how you feel about a countries politics and even their people
you dont come to their country and boo their national anthem
regardless of how people feel about Americans, you would not see Americans doing this in other people's countries
and you know what the worst thing about the whole classless act. American fans have a lot of respect for Ricky Hatton and all it did was get the whole crowd against him
well, im sure i will
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Well, I have expressed my feelings about the US and especially it politics and treatment of incoming visitors often enough.
However, here I must agree with you. Where you have in Europe a number of things as you described above, you also have seperated fan sections with sometimes rows of empty seats in between of the enemy camps. E.g. at champions leagues games, I think it is mandatory to keep 10% of the seats empty for "safety" reasons.
Booing of anthems is very "normal". Although it doesn't happen all the time. It depends on which country you play against.
We Dutch definately always boo the german anthem and the other way around.
Therefore I like the general atmosphere in Canadian and US stadiums. I've been many times in the Montreal Forum and later in the Molson (Bell) Center watching hockey games against Quebec, Boston or Toronto, whioch are big rivakl games. But people of the oposing teams were sitting next to each other, each cheering their own team. That is great and how it is supposed to be.
If you do that here in most football stadiums, you're dead meat.