06-14-2009, 08:02 AM
Don Dresden Wrote:The home team has won every game so far in this series, but that doesn't usually mean much in Game 7's.
Nice call Don. Great finals, but I always feel gypped when there are two US teams playing. They don't play "O Canada" before the game when there is no Canadian team playing.
I went to a baseball game years ago when Montreal was in town and they played the Canadian anthem before the game. Girlfriend asks why they are playing the Canadian anthem, "I thought they only did that at hockey games!"
I think the US should invade Canada and steal their national anthem, because I like it better than ours, and it's faster and easier to sing too, which makes it even more American.
Saw a movie years ago called "Missouri Breaks," where Jack Nicholson and his merry band of horse thieves sneak into Canada to steal horses from the Mounties. Their theory was that once they crossed back into the US they were home free because the Mounties can't cross the border to come after them. Somebody forgot to tell the Mounties, because they crossed the border, tracked down the thieves, took back their horses, and didn't say "please" either.
So I suppose if we stole their national anthem they would just come down and steal it back. But until then every US sporting event would start off like a proper hockey game, and that would be fun. "...We stand on guaaaaaard forrrrr theeeeeeee!"