Comments on: Brandon Roy Walking Out On The Anthem: Cool? http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165 Celebrity sports gossip since 2001 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:50:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: paul http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-144560 paul Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:55:15 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-144560 So he doesn't stand with his team for the national anthem, who cares. Being a good person is patriotic. There are plenty of aholes who have flags on their house, care and wear them everyday. That is a real disgrace. So he doesn’t stand with his team for the national anthem, who cares. Being a good person is patriotic. There are plenty of aholes who have flags on their house, care and wear them everyday. That is a real disgrace.

]]> By: malcolm http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-144420 malcolm Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:44:21 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-144420 What's this? A pro athlete with a mind of his own? A conscience? Solemn and reflective? Aware of affairs beyond his appearances at the Playboy Mansion? And he's not even tatted-up and blinged-out from head to toe? Yeah, let's get on HIS case. And c'mon, does the singing of the National Anthem before sporting events really "honor America"? We're usually spending the 90 seconds thinking about how many beers and hot dogs to buy at the first TV timeout. What’s this? A pro athlete with a mind of his own? A conscience? Solemn and reflective? Aware of affairs beyond his appearances at the Playboy Mansion?

And he’s not even tatted-up and blinged-out from head to toe?

Yeah, let’s get on HIS case.

And c’mon, does the singing of the National Anthem before sporting events really “honor America”? We’re usually spending the 90 seconds thinking about how many beers and hot dogs to buy at the first TV timeout.

]]> By: mrmydak http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-144330 mrmydak Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:06:13 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-144330 Can someone help me out a bit here... Obviously i'm not from the states, but don't let the russian nick fool you, i'm actually in the uk. I go to watch professional sports of different types on a regular basis - Soccer, Rugby, Cricket, Ice Hockey mainly, and over here we don't have a rendition of god save the queen before the game every week, and not having it happen doesn't dampen the atmosphere of the game. What exactly IS the deal with having the anthem played before all your games over there? I mean, you have the best players at most of your major sports playing over there, and i think everyone knows where they are, so what point does it serve? and while i'm here, does anyone feel that when you have not US-players in the game on that day, that it might be a tad insulting to them, making them stand through your anthem? be grateful if someone could try to explain this to me, as it IS something that has always troubled me. Can someone help me out a bit here…

Obviously i’m not from the states, but don’t let the russian nick fool you, i’m actually in the uk.

I go to watch professional sports of different types on a regular basis - Soccer, Rugby, Cricket, Ice Hockey mainly, and over here we don’t have a rendition of god save the queen before the game every week, and not having it happen doesn’t dampen the atmosphere of the game.

What exactly IS the deal with having the anthem played before all your games over there? I mean, you have the best players at most of your major sports playing over there, and i think everyone knows where they are, so what point does it serve?

and while i’m here, does anyone feel that when you have not US-players in the game on that day, that it might be a tad insulting to them, making them stand through your anthem?

be grateful if someone could try to explain this to me, as it IS something that has always troubled me.

]]> By: Bubba http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-144305 Bubba Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:25:15 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-144305 Ogre, ...Roy cannot "stay classy" until he initially exhibits any class at all. Currently he's just an unpatriotic, POS that ought ot go try to make his livlihood in Darfur or Somalia or Cuba or somewhere else where those conditions might make him appreciate what he has and where the hell he was lucky enough to have been born! Screw You Brandon Roy! Screw You! Ogre, …Roy cannot “stay classy” until he initially exhibits any class at all. Currently he’s just an unpatriotic, POS that ought ot go try to make his livlihood in Darfur or Somalia or Cuba or somewhere else where those conditions might make him appreciate what he has and where the hell he was lucky enough to have been born!
Screw You Brandon Roy! Screw You!

]]> By: ogre http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-144076 ogre Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:38:57 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-144076 It's a very simple question of respect --- respect for a lot of things --- but certainly respect for the country in which you live that affords you the brilliant freedoms and opportunities that you enjoy --- and respect to those that volunteer to protect those freedoms. You stay classy Brandon Roy. It’s a very simple question of respect — respect for a lot of things — but certainly respect for the country in which you live that affords you the brilliant freedoms and opportunities that you enjoy — and respect to those that volunteer to protect those freedoms.

You stay classy Brandon Roy.

]]> By: Liam http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-144010 Liam Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:38:12 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-144010 I know for a fact that his dad was a US Marine. This does not make any sense. Absolutely inexcusable. What is he thinking!!! I know for a fact that his dad was a US Marine. This does not make any sense. Absolutely inexcusable. What is he thinking!!!

]]> By: Wonder http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-143999 Wonder Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:59:44 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-143999 So Roy has advertised for over two years that he's too immature to endure the common decency of American society and customs. And this is so unexpected--that a sports icon would--after years of hubris thrust upon and around him--would not have matured into adulthood. I can't consider this unpatriotic, simply because you cannot reasonably claim that a six year old is unpatriotic for the very same thing in the stands. Let Roy have his temper tantrum, or his timeout, or whatever. Playing ball is all he's good for, after a nice long run, he can retire, go to school, and grow up to be a nice rounded adult. Then, you can say this is unpatriotic, because then--he'll just be another a**hole. So Roy has advertised for over two years that he’s too immature to endure the common decency of American society and customs. And this is so unexpected–that a sports icon would–after years of hubris thrust upon and around him–would not have matured into adulthood.

I can’t consider this unpatriotic, simply because you cannot reasonably claim that a six year old is unpatriotic for the very same thing in the stands. Let Roy have his temper tantrum, or his timeout, or whatever. Playing ball is all he’s good for, after a nice long run, he can retire, go to school, and grow up to be a nice rounded adult.

Then, you can say this is unpatriotic, because then–he’ll just be another a**hole.

]]> By: Bubba http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-143859 Bubba Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:22:16 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-143859 He's a f 'n vegetarian too? Just as well, cuz I wuddnt give him any o my possum %squirrel stew any damn way! The unpatriotic POS! Bubba He’s a f ‘n vegetarian too? Just as well, cuz I wuddnt give him any o my possum %squirrel stew any damn way! The unpatriotic POS!
Bubba

]]> By: mike http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-143809 mike Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:40:44 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-143809 <p>oh sh*t, he's a vegetarian too, out with him!!!!</p> oh sh*t, he’s a vegetarian too, out with him!!!!

]]> By: ARC http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-143676 ARC Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:58:26 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/brandon-roy-walking-out-on-the-anthem-cool-27165#comment-143676 Get that goddamn commie/terrorist/vegetarian out on the court with his mates. No excuse for standing in a tunnel by yourself - it's just weird...and suspicious. Get that goddamn commie/terrorist/vegetarian out on the court with his mates. No excuse for standing in a tunnel by yourself - it’s just weird…and suspicious.

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