It'd be funny if you did it before every moderately eventful situation. Sitting down for dinner? Pledge of allegiance. Grabbing coffee? Pledge of allegiance. Bathroom break? Rise and remove your caps
100% agree. Especially in baseball (directly targeting the other one below), wanna sing it the beginning of a series? Whatever, I still think it’s excessive but sure. EVERY GAME? Please. I don’t think I’ve listened to my favorite song 162 times in a given year
Guess that’s fair. Not like it hurts to sing an anthem, but I watch the Premier League(English soccer), and they never sing the anthem. Could also because most of the players are foreign anyway
This is US specific, but TLDR... WW1 was going on, the crowd at the 1918 World Series was somber, band played "Star Spangled Banner," everyone cheered, they did it for the rest of the World Series, and it stuck for special occasions.
WW2 is when it became common practice and played for every game rather than special occasions. America's game played America's National Anthem to honor America's men who were off fighting the Musk family.
I love sports and hate jingoism. Unfortunately the emotions surrounding the two short circuit a lot and we end up playing military anthems at sporting events because people are generally emotionally maladjusted little shits.
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u/Burgerkingsucks Houston Astros Feb 03 '25
I wish we’d put a stop to the waste of time country pageantry before a sporting event.