James, I understand that and I wonder how many fans even knew about it before going to the game. I imagine many may have been caught unawares but out of common courtesy they stood fot it. I was relieved and delighted that any booing was very small. Last week on the news I watched in disgust as an american flag was being burned by some yahoo in Toronto , it was enough to make me puke. We don't have to agree with everything the Americans do, or the British , or the Irish or Australians or the French or anybody else for that matter but I hope we always have the decency to respect their emblems and their anthems. It is these emblems and anthems that represent the people and we should never intentionally insult them, especially when they are our neighbours.