Posted on 07/05/2021 4:44:39 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Several women on the US soccer team on Monday turned away from the US flag as 98-year-old WWII veteran Pete DuPré played the national anthem on a harmonica.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
I hope they get their asses handed to them!
These women are so stupid they are spitting into the soup.
The left has been really good at destroying sports. No one wants to watch them anymore.
I saw only 2 of the USWNT players not facing the U.S. flag during the playing of the national anthem.
Those 2 were WOC.
Some of the players placed their hand over their heart. Others didn't
Didn't see any of the players taking a knee.
According to Wikipedia, Meghan Rapinoe is listed on the current roster.
Dennis Prager should do an update and add the USWNT to his list ...
3/25/2019: Prager University - "Why Are So Many Good Things Being Destroyed?">
Didn’t that one lesbian say it was “homophobic” to not buy their merch LOL
Calm down everyone.
Please keep in mind that this is women’s soccer. They probably just didn’t know which way they were supposed to be looking.
Aawww, well, so be it.
ANYONE who turns their back on the flag should NOT represent the United States in the Olympics.
Absolutely — they’re clearing not playing for this country.
Just as the US Men’s Basketball Team.
I will be rooting for Slovenia and Luka Doncic in the Olympics.
My response to that is to ask what you think would happen if the men's team played a bunch of under 15 girls? And...why don't they? Curious that the women play boys but the men don't play girls.
Good point
They are representing the US, so it is NOT their right to do so. In a sane world, they would be off the team.
Coaches need to grow some cojones. They control the player’s behavior.
Hasn't been that way since Latrell Sprewell tried to choke PJ Carlesimo, the inmates run the asylum now.
This is why I will watch every Olympic game in women’s soccer.
They are the best in the world, and I’ll be rooting for a miracle on the pitch as I root against TeamUSA.
You Nike will be first in line to with endorsements for these traitors.
It's a shame to see the athletes of today undoing what the athletes from a century ago began.
From the Sept. 19, 2011 issue of ESPN The Magazine:
THAT STORY BEGINS, as so many tales in modern American sports do, with Babe Ruth. History records various games in which "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played dating from the mid-1800s, but Ruth's last postseason appearances for the Boston Red Sox coincided with the song's first unbreakable bond with the sports world, in 1918. Game 1 of that year's World Series was notable for many reasons...There was also World War I, which blackened everything, including the national pastime. The U.S. had entered the war 17 months earlier, and in that time some 100,000 American soldiers died. Veterans who survived often came home maimed or shell-shocked from encounters with modern warfare's first mechanized mass-killing machines. At home, the public mood was sullen and anxious. The war strained the economy and the workforce, including baseball's. The government began drafting major leaguers for military service that summer and ordered baseball to end the regular season by Labor Day. As a result, the 1918 Series was the lone October Classic played entirely in September.
World War I wasn't the only issue weighing heavily on fans. On Sept. 4, the day before the first game, a bomb ripped through the Chicago Federal Building, killing four people and injuring 30. The Industrial Workers of the World were thought to be behind the attack, a retaliation for the conviction of several IWW members on federal sedition charges...
Although the Cubs festooned the park in as much red, white and blue as possible, the glum crowd in the stands for Game 1 remained nearly silent through most of Ruth's 1-0 shutout victory over Chicago's Hippo Vaughn. Not even the Cubs Claws, the forerunners to Wrigley's Bleacher Bums, could gin up enthusiasm...
With one exception: the seventh-inning stretch. As was common during sporting events, a military band was on hand to play, and while the fans were on their feet, the musicians fired up "The Star-Spangled Banner." They weren't the only active-duty servicemen on the field, though. Red Sox third baseman Fred Thomas was playing the Series while on furlough from the Navy, where he'd been learning seamanship at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Chicago...
Upon hearing the opening notes of Key's song from the military band, Thomas immediately faced the flag and snapped to attention with a military salute. The other players on the field followed suit, in "civilian" fashion, meaning they stood and put their right hands over their hearts. The crowd, already standing, showed its first real signs of life all day, joining in a spontaneous sing-along, haltingly at first, then finishing with flair. The scene made such an impression that The New York Times opened its recap of the game not with a description of the action on the field but with an account of the impromptu singing: "First the song was taken up by a few, then others joined, and when the final notes came, a great volume of melody rolled across the field. It was at the very end that the onlookers exploded into thunderous applause and rent the air with a cheer that marked the highest point of the day's enthusiasm."
The Cubs front office realized it had witnessed something unique. For the next two games, it had the band play "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the seventh-inning stretch, to similarly enthusiastic crowds. By Game 3, a bigger crowd of 27,000 was in attendance. Not to be outdone, the Red Sox ratcheted up the pageantry when the Series relocated to Boston for the next three games. At Fenway Park, "The Star-Spangled Banner" moved from the seventh-inning stretch to the pregame festivities, and the team coupled the playing of the song with the introduction of wounded soldiers who had received free tickets. Like the Chicago fans, the normally reserved Boston crowd erupted for the pregame anthem and the hobbled heroes. As the Tribune wrote of the wounded soldiers at Game 6, "[T]heir entrance on crutches supported by their comrades evoked louder cheers than anything the athletes did on the diamond..."
Still, the Series' most enduring legacy belongs to a song. Other major league teams noticed the popular reaction to "The Star-Spangled Banner" in 1918, and over the next decade it became standard for World Series and holiday games. In subsequent years, through subsequent wars, it grew into the daily institution we know today...
Congress didn't officially adopt the "The Star-Spangled Banner" until 1931 -- and by that time it was already a baseball tradition steeped in wartime patriotism. Thanks to a brass band, some fickle fans and a player who snapped to attention on a somber day in September, the old battle ballad was the national pastime's anthem more than a decade before it was the nation's.
-PJ
Exactly, they don’t represent the US team or us either.
May they reap what they sow.
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