He doesn’t want the spectacle of his team kneeling.
It’s an erosion of patriotism, the one thing we used to all have in common. Thanks to teachers, lawyers and corrupt politicians, half the country thinks patriotism is raciest and nazism.
Mac, Only steers and queers think standing for the anthem is like a cult, Private Cowboy, and you don’t look much like a steer to me, so that ...
Hey cuban/wilson, phu cough!
Maybe the bigger cult is such an emphasis and concern to watch and care about people who do nothing but chase a ball.
No idea if this guy claims to be conservative, but I’m sure many “conservatives” will cheer this move for this or that stupid reason while ignoring the big picture. This country is on its way out because of idiots like this.
What would happen if a WHITE person were selected to sing it?
Regards,
Mac Engel is Satan’s child.
It gets much FUNNER when young men stop answering the call to serve in the armed forces, because they don’t think the country is worth dying for.
I hate our culture. I despise our panywaste weak men.
America will fall.
Shades of Michelle and Barack Obama “all this hype for a stupid flag.”
Can’t get the full text of this article but the Thomas Wilson quote about the national anthem was just stupid. Nice that he served in the military for 13 years. So did millions of others including my college teammate who was killed in action in Vietnam. He was buried under the cover of the American flag and Taps. Didn’t get to hear the national anthem ever again.
So FU Wilson. If you can’t respect the national anthem, you can’t respect the American flag that inspired it.
The greatest American flags I saw were on riverine patrol boats on the Mekong Delta as they passed underneath a bridge we were travelling over, flying full-bodied on a warm November day.
the right thing to do is to forbid your team members from kneeling during the anthem- fine them, suspend them if necessary- Don’t stop having the national anthem-
Done!
Cuban just flushed his franchises!
Will never resucitate them.
Please humor me Mr. Mark Cuban. Firstly, thank you for your service.
Secondly, what part of this do you find either too embarrassing or offensive that you would shy from showing the patriotism and/or pride that ALL should have as Americans (much less someone having been in uniform).
Our National Anthem’s Lyrics
The Star-Spangled Banner:
O 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 through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O 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, O 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.
O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation.
Blest with vict’ry 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!
Recently I was reminded of the sacrifice of those that have worn the uniform before I ever even thought of serving in uniform myself. It’s sad that I had to be reminded. That’s why I’m humbly urging you Mr. Cuban to remember those men and women that have served and still serve. Remember our National Anthem’s words and what they mean. Remember our Flag and those that have bled for our freedom beneath It’s colors. But please, please remember that sometimes silence can be a sin of omission.
-sent to Mark Cuban in care of Mack Engel at the Fort Worth Star Telegram
How about the Internationale in honor of the owners of the teams ancestors- the founders of Bolshevikism?
The reason we sing the national anthem at sporting events is to unify the two sides of the crowd that hate each other’s team.
Deep down, Humans are tribal and stupid and will do dumb things with a crowd.
Idiots don’t understand this and the evil exploit this.
His ball bouncers hate the country that pays them millions.