Yeah! Screw all this "free country" crap. Stand and salute or get out! No differing opinions allowed!!
Fuckin' commie bastards daring to think for themselves, what's up with that shit?
You're not familiar with the word "team", are you?
Mostly, coaches don't tell their players to show up whenever they want, dress however they want, play the position of their choice, and give as much effort as they feel like giving.
If a coach allowed his players to disrespect the other team, he'd be a lousy coach.
Same goes for disrespecting America.
Number one, do you have any evidence from anywhere that this hockey team's opponents, whoever they are, are somehow "playing against America"?
Number two, do you even have any inkling of who this hockey team or this coach.... IS? Because nothing in the OP link gives any indication. It LITERALLY doesn't know. For all we know this is completely staged. A video from nowhere, contrived for no purpose but to incite the rabble. By entities unknown who will not take, and apparently don't want, responsibility.
Number three, the OP title is a lie. Nowhere does the coach mention anything about "standing". Go ahead, run it and see. He says they won't "
disrespect" a national anthem, which is
NOT the same thing. So this whole thread started on a line of bullshit.
And number four, about that phrase "disrespecting America" ---- who's "disrespecting" when you can't get the name of the country right? By the sweeping "America" you're treating Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Hati, the Dominican Republic, Dominica, Curaçao, Venezuela, Colombia, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Suriname, Argentina and Brasil as if they don't matter.
Respect
that, puppet.