O'Canada

Gives me chills every time. Thanks, BBAM.

 

Same here, IJAG ... until the minute mark when Corky, in the background, is putting so much effort into belting out O'Canada. It's then that I burst out into laughter.

 

"Corky" has down syndome and is the Oilers stick boy. Real name is Joey Moss
Singing the anthem like that was first started in Vancouver at a Canuck playoff game a few years back

 

See? And this is one of the reasons I dispute the national anthem still being played at non-Olympic and non-world championship events ... we started it. No, we started it.
Who gives a shit who started it? Can't it just be a wonderful moment? I'd be willing to bet there are people who would dispute it was 'first' done that way at a Canucks game ... say, some people who were at the Red Deer world juniors? Or folks who stood on the docks in Halifax awaiting soldiers' arrivals? Or the crowds who travel across the country to attend Canada Day ceremonies in Ottawa?
This is a far more poignant moment than the national anthem before an NHL puck drop:

Now that we've lost the original intent of the thread ... have at 'er.

 

nice. my first pair of skates were 152s.

 

Relax, I was talking about the anthem singer putting the mic to the crowd

 

Well, in that case, Mick Jagger did a few times back in the '70s ...

 

OK, you win

 

Aren't PEI beaches red?

And if you've driven across the country, how do you miss Manitoba?