New policy requires on-field players, personnel to stand for anthem

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(05-24-2018, 04:57 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Personally, I think playing the anthem before sporting events is ridiculous, anyway. Before international competition? I get it. But when it is as commonplace as it is it comes off as nationalistic rather than patriotic and it has an effect of desensitization for a lot of people.

JMHO on the matter.

Pretty much summed up what I said up above. It has been and is being overplayed, period.

But what even comes off as fake and 'forced nationalistic patriotism', is the millions of dollars the Pentagon paid directly to the NFL and NFL teams to 'salute the troops!' Because if they cant earn patriotism by God they will buy it.