Makes sense to me. The anthem has NO PLACE at sporting events. It’s original purpose was to take peoples minds off how rotten life was during the depression. Patriotism is the last bastion of the scoundrel-works every time.
I had read that the National Anthem playing at sports games started at the beginning of WW2.
Why are you even on FR?
and life is not rotten now, under Obama and the congress-supported Obamacare?
It was written by Francis Scott Key when the brits were attacking the USA during the war of 1812, 120 years BEFORE the depression.
You are stuck on stupid.
It was first played during game 1 of the 1918 World Series.
Exactly a song written 120 years before the Depression. Mr. Key was much smarter than I have ever given him credit for. As for you, maybe you should brush up on your history and leave out the histrionics.
After reading through your history in here, you should spend more time lurking and less time dazzling us with your “witticisms”.
And since you have an issue with patriotism, this site really isn’t for you at all.
This my be worthy of a ZOT! MY beeber meter got stuned and went critical. Try going to your home country of China if you don’t like the US.
Not much surprises me anymore as I accept the plethora of uneducated ignorant people all around us because our school system has been transformed into a liberal propaganda machine--
Yet, Dirty, that a dumb schmuck like you could actually put into words the height of stupidity you have achieved--
Well, it just leaves me speechless... 
except to say 'Kiss my shiny metal ass!"
BS.
Go away.
In case you are still around after your major flaming:
The Star-Spangled Banner is the current national anthem of the United States of America. The poem (lyrics) was written by Francis Scott Key. On 13 September 1814, during the War of 1812, Key visited the British fleet in Chesapeake Bay to negotiate the release of Dr. William Beanes, who had been captured after the burning of Washington DC. The release was completed, but Key remained with the British overnight during the shelling of Fort McHenry, one of the forts defending Baltimore. In the morning, Key saw through clearing smoke an American flag still flying after the 25 hour bombardment of Fort McHenry. He wrote a poem to commemorate the occasion, noting that it should be sung to the popular British melody “To Anacreon in Heaven.”
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 thru 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 full 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!