Interesting theory on national anthem at NFL games

[Votto]

Actor says NFL players’ role in national anthem ceremonies is a government ‘scam’

According to the article, the government funded the national anthem routine before games in order to spike recruitment rates for their never ending wars over seas.

 

[Timmy]

Actor says NFL players’ role in national anthem ceremonies is a government ‘scam’

According to the article, the government funded the national anthem routine before games in order to spike recruitment rates for their never ending wars over seas.

I heard it originated back before ww1 to do just that .

 

[IsaacNewton]

The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In fully glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution!
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust":
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Probably no one knows there are those three addtional stanzas. And if you check the wording, as this was written in 1814, there are some references to race that they would like to keep out of the singing of the national anthem these days. I myself had never seen or heard more than the first stanza of this.

"Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!"

Wonder why they don't have Lady Gaga belt that out at the beginning of the Super Bowl.

That's some wild weird stuff Ed!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Progressives, I beg you get the fuck out of America. Take CA and just fucking leave!

 

[LoneLaugher]

Progressives, I beg you get the fuck out of America. Take CA and just fucking leave!

Nope. You'll leave before I do.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Progressives, I beg you get the fuck out of America. Take CA and just fucking leave!

Sorry, Chuck, you're free to leave. Putin will welcome you with open arms and he's someone you will really relate to.

 

[9thIDdoc]

Totally insane attempt to spin and justify the players trying to make some kind of political statement. Premeditated and deliberate decisiveness by the players.

 

[MarkDuffy]

In deplorableland

Taking a knee is disrespecting the Flag

but

is not

 

[Darkwind]

Yeah, its a government scam to put players up to disrespecting all of America's fallen.