I'm not an American but....

[CDSmith]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

Question: do Canadians do the "hand over the heart" for the beautiful "O, Canada"?

No, that's pretty much an American (US) thing.

Here we just stand, those who actually know the words sing along, and after it's done playing we all clap our hands like idiots.




If they didn't play the national anthem at sporting events some people would never ever hear it.

It's played during the Olympics for each country, as well as world soccer games where teams represent their countries, so I suppose it just carried over to all other sports.