(September 26, 2017 at 10:10 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote:(September 23, 2017 at 12:35 pm)FFaith Wrote: I'm pretty sure there's a rule in the NBA stating that players must stand for the anthem. Is it really forced though? Nobody is forcing these millionaires to make millions playing a game. They can go and do otherwise if they so choose. I understand that playing the anthem is mostly just an advertisement for the military, and I'd like it to be removed from all games other than the Olympics, but that's not happening anytime soon.
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I know the thread has moved waaaay past this but I just want to whole heartedly agree with this. Do the Dallas Cowboys have to be reminded at every game which country they are playing for? No, because all the teams are playing for the same country. In international sports where the national anthem actually denotes a difference between the players/teams it's at appropriate, or at least arguably so.
I'm also sympathetic to that suggestion.
However, these displays of faux patriotism at every damn professional sporting event have always been a recruitment spectacle for the armed services -- nothing more, nothing less. There aren't enough dishonest sergeants in every recruiting office in the country to match the sheer advertising pull they get from inserting themselves into a single Super Bowl.
So no . . . the Cowboys will have to continue to be reminded that they live and work in the U.S.A.
