Eric Reid Anthem Thread

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(04-10-2018, 07:21 PM)BengalsRocker Wrote: I don't care about it.

Playing the anthem is tradition and standing appropriately is just etiquette.

People break traditions and ignore etiquette on a daily basis.

That doesn't make it right in everyone's eyes and probably never will.



People keep mixing the message with disrespecting the military.

That isn't the message though.

My real question is...   has it really changed anything??

It's just another talking point that goes nowhere and brings out the worst in people who would like to vilify anyone who doesn't follow their beliefs/opinions.

This is the world we live in.  There's no follow up and not enough follow through.  We have societal ADHD.  There's no follow up because the new things go whizzing by so fast that in a matter of days or weeks, what was news is buried under the weight of it.  Very few things last for a year.  Hell, not many things last a week.

The very thing people will be veins bulging, up in faces screamingingly passionate about today will be forgotten in a day or two.

The anthem had legs because it was weekly.  When the games ended, so did all the attention.

So, the real answer to your question of has anything changed is, who the hell knows, because nobody is reporting it now.  Did the cause die with the attention or did it get a life of its own and go on?  I don't ever hear a soul talk about that.