Paintball and Other Things

There are times when after a debate, you remember that "thing" you should have or could have said. I had that feeling about paintball yesterday.
A bunch of guys came up from Washington to play a game with our squad here. They were a great group of hard core Christian youth. They were expecting fun times on the paint ball course with our guys. I think they got less than that. Let's beat "the Americans" was the immediate cry from our guys.

I find the visceral dislike many Canadians carry for Americans can surface in some very rude behavior towards them. Thankfully our guys were not really all that bad in general but there were "incidents".
When the Canadian side won a round against the American squad, they triumphed like they had conquered the whole of the USA or something.
When the time came to leave the field, the American side left in a rather somber mood. I suspected it was the effect of having been treated a bit like "the enemy". Not once did they said a single derogatory thing against the Canadians. They shamed us with THEIR politeness and sportsman like conduct.

Not a good day.