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Hockey Coach Goes Viral: Either Stand For the National Anthem Or Get the Hell Out

tres borrachos said:
Okay, I asked because this thread is about an professional assistant coach in hockey. My husband played in the AHL and the NHL. Coaches actually didn't do this. They didn't have meltdowns over something that hadn't happened. That may explain why this guy hasn't gotten further than the FHL which pays their players about what a McDonald's manager makes.
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Oh. Reminded me of my coaches is all. I guess I paid them to abuse me. I was never a good enough athlete to do professional sports, just good enough to paste the fat guys at the renaissance fairs. They always ended up so black and blue and green that it looked like I ripped them out of their armor and beat them with a bat. I tried jousting. I lasted a season. I thought people got hit hard in football. You get hit with a lance jousting, that like getting by NFL 400lb lineman with a horses speed. **** me that hurts, it doesn't matter what armor you have on. Trying to swing a sword in armor after you get your bell rung a few times, with the pasty fat guys waiting for revenge, yea... no. I have one coach that could hit near as hard as when I jousted and that was my Wing Chun coach. He had straight side kick that gave me jousting flash backs. He could get that leg moving.
 
PirateMk1 said:
Oh. Reminded me of my coaches is all. I guess I paid them to abuse me. I was never a good enough athlete to do professional sports, just good enough to paste the fat guys at the renaissance fairs. They always ended up so black and blue and green that it looked like I ripped them out of their armor and beat them with a bat. I tried jousting. I lasted a season. I thought people got hit hard in football. You get hit with a lance jousting, that like getting by NFL 400lb lineman with a horses speed. **** me that hurts. Trying to swing a sword in armor after you get your bell rung a few times, with the pasty fat guys waiting for revenge, yea... no. I have one coach that could hit near as hard as when I jousted and that was my Wing Chun coach. He had straight side kick that gave me jousting flash backs. He could get that leg moving.
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I haven't been to a Renaissance Fair in years. Are they still around?
 
tres borrachos said:
Thanks. I had no idea. I've been to the one in Tuxedo NY which was the big one in that area growing up. First time I ever laid eyes on a serving wench.
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:lamo Gots to show love to the serving wench, after all they gots the beer. Well in my case root beer.
 
tres borrachos said:
Thanks. I had no idea. I've been to the one in Tuxedo NY which was the big one in that area growing up. First time I ever laid eyes on a serving wench.
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By the way the term wench is not or at least was not derogatory it just means girl or female not known as Lady.
 
PirateMk1 said:
By the way the term wench is not or at least was not derogatory it just means girl or female not known as Lady.
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I love the term wench. Shakespeare used it to describe lovely young girls. If someone called me a wench today, I'd thank him. I haven't been a young girl in a loooong time.
 
Frigidweirdo said:
There are two factors here which are conflicting.

The first is just that you stand for the anthem the same as you should shake hands with your opponent and treat everyone with respect.

The second is the freedom of speech and all that.

If the game is an INTERNATIONAL GAME, then sure, respect the anthems because it's one nation v. another.

But in non-international games, like the NFL, there shouldn't be the national anthem in the first place. It literally has no place there.
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I agree that its out of place playing the anthem before sporting events just like its out of place for them to wear pink during breast cancer awareness month or its out of place for them to kneel during the anthem. There is a time and place for things and force feeding a captive audience these things should be soundly rejected by the audience. Howeger the customer is always right so these things have become expected.

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trouble13 said:
I agree that its out of place playing the anthem before sporting events just like its out of place for them to wear pink during breast cancer awareness month or its out of place for them to kneel during the anthem. There is a time and place for things and force feeding a captive audience these things should be soundly rejected by the audience. Howeger the customer is always right so these things have become expected.

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Not sure the anthem has much to do with the customers.
 
trouble13 said:
Of course it does. Its part of the entertainment package. Just like the halftime show is.

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Could play better songs.
 
AtlantaAdonis said:
No wonder people of color don't want to play this sport.

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They don't want their teeth knocked out. :lol:
 
X Factor said:
You are waaaaaay too aggressive and insulting yourself to be so frikkin’ sensitive. Your ego is actually very fragile.
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So it's egofarm?
 
Amelia said:
"Don't spit" is advice not to commit a crime.

"Don't kneel" is someone ordering another person to go through empty patriotic motions with no respect for their concerns.


The coach was grandstanding and being political, with no better reason for political grandstanding than any NFL or soccer players had.
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Imagine the opposite. A coach tells his athletes to kneel or else...Fox news would be all over it. conservatives would say "Keep your politics out of the game. Respect the players' free speech" :lamo:lamo

How about respecting people's views? What about a Coach who's incredibly religious and tell his players to join the prayer circle, or to make the sign of the cross? That's 'respect'?
 
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