Talk:U-S-A!

message: Somebody cleverly spammed the page a while ago and replaced all the names with "Ronald McDonald". That is, except for the name John Cena. Would someone mind going through and fixing that? -StreetAnger (talk) 05:33, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: UPDATE: it seems that this user https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/74.103.208.26 is a spammer and should be stopped. -StreetAnger (talk) 05:36, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Ronald McDonald

message: At Arizona State football games, sometimes the "ASU" flags get switched around, and opposing fans will sometimes sarcastically yell, "U-S-A! U-S-A!" -- Nwebster84, 21:40, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: ASU/USA

message: The US won the gold medal after defeating Finland, not in the Miracle on Ice game.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.173.88.38 (talk) 21:14, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 'gold medal win'

message: this is also a popular chant for when the usa, or a citizen thereof, does something embarrassing.  with near exclusivity, it is a fellow citizen who expects better of their compatriots.
while it is a possibility that non-citizens may use it derisively, this usage lacks the required mutual standing and, therefore, subsequent embarrassment.
71.253.25.182 (talk) 01:00, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: irony

message: Good job they invented the USA chant at that hockey match in 1980. However, the article forgets to mention that they invented time travel and went back to a 1979 USA vs Hungary soccer match and taught them the chant before it existed. Let's make it clear that the 1980 Olympics hockey game is a folk origin (or popularization event) for the chant, which has no real verification beyond a few people watching a major sporting event on television and saying "well that was the first time I heard it". It's a little too convenient that it was "invented" at a moment when everyone was watching it on TV. SFB 08:15, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: First usage

message: I'd expel the students solely on the basis of bad grammar. u must stop using teh internets 2 lern ur spelling or u look liek teh LOLZ!!!!!111 </end sarcasm> -- 70.56.81.63 (talk) 18:42, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Wisconsin School/U Suck Ass

message: According to an opinion garnered at WT:WikiProject Songs, chants are covered by that project. So can someone reinstate the banner? 76.65.128.132 (talk) 05:58, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that's a good idea. See the January 2012 response at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Songs/Archive 8#Chants. It's not like this is a Gregorian chant or anything; the "lyrics" are just "U-S-A" repeated. --BDD (talk) 18:03, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Instrumentals are not songs either, but WPSONGS covers that. Musical rhythmic acoustics seems to be the coverage area of WPSONGS (and spoken word "songs" found in some modern forms of rap music, which sound more like speeches than anything else, with a musical background track) -- 70.51.202.183 (talk) 05:10, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject Song

message: Might want to mention that now the chant is regularly being used by crowds at political speeches in the U.S. to drown out protesters who yell out to interrupt the speaker. I don't have a source at hand, but I'm sure a Google search will turn up many examples. - dcljr (talk) 23:00, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to find those sources and add them to the page. If it's a prevalent as you seem to suggest, it's worth noting. Achowat (talk) 13:33, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Shouting down protesters