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Originally Posted by Martinjmpr

OK, serious question:

My point with all this is that there seems to be an assumption that every football game or baseball game will start with a national anthem and presentation of the colors. But I don't see it as something that always has to be that way.

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I never really thought about the "why" of the Anthem before any game. Why is it done? It's just a game after all. Do they sing the National Anthem before a national ping pong match?

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Originally Posted by GilpinGuy

I never really thought about the "why" of the Anthem before any game. Why is it done? It's just a game after all. Do they sing the National Anthem before a national ping pong match?

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Or a Pokemon game ?

The National Anthem involvement with sports has a been more of a storied history than the leftists would like to be known (it kills their falsehoods).

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/...-espn-magazine

http://mentalfloss.com/article/22150...porting-events

pre-9/11 article showing its presence before sporting events, thus cutting off the DOD recruiting effort trope at the knees:
http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcr...7/03/molotsky/

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Originally Posted by Martinjmpr

o for those who have, do they normally do the National Anthem? My guess is probably not. For one thing, in Europe it's common for teams from different countries to play each other. So who gets to have their anthem first?

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No, we didn't invent the national-anthem-before-games no matter what kind of silliness and tropes the Left pushes. I believe there's a protocol for playing the national anthems in multinational games.

I'm pretty much dumbfounded by this whole thing; what a nightmare of three stooges comedy gone wrong. The NFL has no backbone, Trump's continuous sound bites should be on reality TV not in the white house, and the players are a bunch of disrespectful worthless pricks who should not be supported at all.

The NFL as well as all professional sports teams have two choices; they either clarify their code of conduct regarding what is acceptable during the national anthem or remove it from their games.

Trump needs to be a man of action not a man of sound bites. If the NFL isn't respecting the country, and the men and women who serve it, then remove our military from those games...no more colour guards, no more flyovers, no more involvement in any way.

I don't think there is any hope for the players and the people who believe in that shit, which is why this country will face great tribulation in the future.

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Originally Posted by MED

Trump needs to be a man of action not a man of sound bites. If the NFL isn't respecting the country, and the men and women who serve it, then remove our military from those games...no more colour guards, no more flyovers, no more involvement in any way.

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[Beer]

Well said. And in addition to withdrawing the flyovers of jets, he can also withdraw the millions of $$ the DoD spends advertising and otherwise supporting the NFL. And the thing is, Trump could do that with a phone call.

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Funny, but I've never seen Brokeback Mountain...and never will.

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Originally Posted by Gman

Funny, but I've never seen Brokeback Mountain...and never will.

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I just used search engine to see what that was. It was a movie.........

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Originally Posted by Bailey Guns

The NFL can go bankrupt and disappear for all I care.

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I second this.