Question, why is the National Anthem played before sporting events?
I just don’t see the purpose.
Our national anthem is not just a song with some catchy lyrics. It was written in the heat of the moment about real freedom loving Americans standing up against a bombardment. So when we have major events that bring people together we often sing the anthem or pray or both. It can serve to help us remember those who established and maintained our country.
I’m going to wing it and then go look it up on the internet. Perhaps it’s not only an opportunity to celebrate our freedom when it isn’t Independence Day, but also to remind us that we are fellow citizens even when opposing each other.
“Question, why is the National Anthem played before sporting events?
I just don’t see the purpose.”
Because a professional sporting event used to be put on by patriotic Americans “performing” for other patriotic Americans. Teams used to have prayer before a game too.
If you don’t see any purpose, you’re living in the wrong country and should move out!
Name the decent country in which national sporting events does not the anthem played.
Yesterday these smug thugs and there foreign invader owner stood for the British anthem and trashed the USA one in London .
I have noticed more and more of these anti American comments dripping in here .
This theme of the anthem at sports....started around 1918 (Wilson era)...at the World Series. Oddly enough...it was the tune used for the stretch moment in the 7th inning. People thought it was a great moment, and then was used at the start of the next game of the World Series. We should note...the country had entered the war and this was a moment to support the nation.
Personally, I don’t think this really caught on until you started to have a speaker system at most arenas and fields.
It’s almost always stated just before the anthem... “To honor America... something that is apparently lost on you.
Answer: To expose all the communists, mozlums and other anti-Americans.
Wow...really?
Maybe try studying more about American history, rather than Asian history. Especially about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have died over the years so we would have the freedom to go to those sporting events? Or all the Americans who died to ensure the people of the Pacific were free to live their lives NOT under the boot of Imperial Japan?
Oh yeah...when you do go back to get you bachelors' in American History, don't do it in Austin.
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I just don’t see the purpose.
Large public events have a long history of doing this, and we're certainly not the only nation with such a practice.
Why play the anthem of the gold medalists' home country at the Olympic Games? Why play the national anthem of *every* competing race team's country before the annual race at Le Mans? These are signs of respect, often coming from people of other nationalities. Think of it as part of the trappings of the civilized world, regardless of how much purpose it appears to serve.
If our own obscenely well-paid football players can't show this nation the same level of respect that is typically expressed by foreign sporting adversaries, I agree - let them sit in the tunnel until it's time to take the field. Denying them some camera time would do all their egos some good, too.