Even as an American former college football player... playing the national anthem at the beginning of every game just seemed weird to me from the start. It's Americans playing against Americans, this isn't the Olympics or anything. It's a weird tradition, and I have no problem with people sitting/kneeling/standing/doing whatever during it. Only time it'd get disrespectful is if you interrupt or disrupt the singer/musician - that's just being a dick. But the anthem isn't a magical sacred spell of words that can be hurt or damaged by simply sitting down.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson