“Recently a high-ranking Red Sox official told me — nearly 17 years after the towers fell — that he really doesn’t know why the team still plays ‘God Bless America,’ but he knows this: The team would ‘get killed’ publicly if it was the first team to stop doing it,” Bryant writes.
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Any anger would disappear in about 1.5 seconds if they stopped playing it in this maggot infested state (MA.) Sports talk in Boston has become so rabidly anti-God it has become impossible to listen to.
It’s not just about the butts in the seats, though. It’s about TV revenue. And there are plenty of markets where this kind of cr@p won’t sell well.