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    Sports Boycotts

    I'm no longer interested in watching the NFL or NBA, due to their disregard for my feelings toward the flag and the national anthem. MLB is probably next, saw a player taking a knee yesterday.
    Have seen owners statements endorsing the athletes. So I now boycott Flying J and Pilot gas stations. No sense forking my money over to them.

    I have no issue with their right to do anything. But I have a choice where I spend my money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NapRover View Post
    I'm no longer interested in watching the NFL or NBA, due to their disregard for my feelings toward the flag and the national anthem. MLB is probably next, saw a player taking a knee yesterday.
    Have seen owners statements endorsing the athletes. So I now boycott Flying J and Pilot gas stations. No sense forking my money over to them.

    I have no issue with their right to do anything. But I have a choice where I spend my money.
    I've never understood why a baseball game, etc., has to be a flag waving experience in the first place. In baseball, half the players are from other countries, for example. Why should they be expected to participate? What on earth does it have to do with baseball?

    Help me here, Nap. I'm not defending the dissing of the flag (although we could do that in another thread), I'm questioning why we do the flag waving thing in the first place.

    Neither of us were around when it started or remember why we sing the anthem before games, but we both remember why we sing during the 7th inning stretch.

    America the beautiful is a great song, which unlike the national anthem is easy to sing by non opera singers. But every time I hear the 7th inning stretch I am reminded by how easily frightened we are. The experience doesn't convey strength to me, but rather fear.
    I think the seventh inning stretch has run it's course. Jmho. Time to return to take me out to the ballgame.

    Your thoughts?
    Last edited by Bethere; 09-24-2017 at 12:50 PM.

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    Good luck with that.
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    We spend entirely too much money and pay for to much attention to what are basically children's games anyway. While I might watch the occasional game I don't buy expensive logo gear or anything like that. I couldn't care less whether the playersame stand sit or squat during the anthem and don't understand the purpose of playing it at the beginning of every major sporting event anyway.
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    It's just tradition. One of my brothers just said that's the answer: end the tradition. We play the national anthem for high school games, college games and pro games.
    I enjoy it immensely, although I admit I can do without all the Maya Rudolf versions. Just have a band come out and play it, or play an MP3 version.
    I've seen a lot of opening day baseball games where they line up on the baselines, play the anthem, release the balloons and have a flyover. It's amazing, it's American. Why do people have to be turds in punch bowls?
    Go to an Army-Navy game, you'll get so inspired, you'll want to enlist.

    It'll be interesting to see how many season ticket holders will be replaced by those who think the police are against them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bethere View Post
    I've never understood why a baseball game, etc., has to be a flag waving experience in the first place. In baseball, half the players are from other countries, for example. Why should they be expected to participate? What on earth does it have to do with baseball?

    Help me here, Nap. I'm not defending the dissing of the flag (although we could do that in another thread), I'm questioning why we do the flag waving thing in the first place.

    Neither of us were around when it started or remember why we sing the anthem before games, but we both remember why we sing during the 7th inning stretch.

    America the beautiful is a great song, which unlike the national anthem is easy to sing by non opera singers. But every time I hear the 7th inning stretch I am reminded by how easily frightened we are. The experience doesn't convey strength to me, but rather fear.
    I think the seventh inning stretch has run it's course. Jmho. Time to return to take me out to the ballgame.

    Your thoughts?
    Ever since 9/11, they added God Bless America to the 7th inning stretch in many locations, starting with NYC. They still do Take Me Out... too. I wouldn't mind cutting back to the latter

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    I see people at the ballpark getting upset because somebody doesn't stand and take off their cap for 'God Bless America' (which they only play on Sundays here). You just want to say, "It's not even the National Anthem, dude!"

    If you've ever seen that early-'70s classic Billy Jack, you might remember a skit the folks at the reservation school put on wherein one guy doesn't stand for the Anthem, and while the others are singing they are also pummeling and kicking the guy into unconsciousness, and they all end up standing over his body with their hands over their hearts, singing about "the land of the free and the home of the brave". While that sort of thing doesn't routinely happen, as such, in real life, there are certain parallels between that attitude and the current controversy.

    The wife and I were at Game Two of the 2001 World Series in Phoenix, and got to see Ray Charles on the field with his piano singing and playing "America", and it was something I will never forget. On the way home, on an after-game call-in radio program, some doofus claimed to have "almost walked out" because they didn't play the Star-Spangled Banner. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    I see people at the ballpark getting upset because somebody doesn't stand and take off their cap for 'God Bless America' (which they only play on Sundays here). You just want to say, "It's not even the National Anthem, dude!"

    If you've ever seen that early-'70s classic Billy Jack, you might remember a skit the folks at the reservation school put on wherein one guy doesn't stand for the Anthem, and while the others are singing they are also pummeling and kicking the guy into unconsciousness, and they all end up standing over his body with their hands over their hearts, singing about "the land of the free and the home of the brave". While that sort of thing doesn't routinely happen, as such, in real life, there are certain parallels between that attitude and the current controversy.

    The wife and I were at Game Two of the 2001 World Series in Phoenix, and got to see Ray Charles on the field with his piano singing and playing "America", and it was something I will never forget. On the way home, on an after-game call-in radio program, some doofus claimed to have "almost walked out" because they didn't play the Star-Spangled Banner. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
    People can do what they want.
    It costs so much to take family out to any college or pro sport event. They build stadiums that are full of high-dollar luxury suites. It's so strange that they'd risk alienating their base by allowing what most people consider disrespect of the country, military, police, etc. judging from social media responses I've seen, there's an overwhelming backlash. Good luck without a dime of my money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NapRover View Post
    It's just tradition. One of my brothers just said that's the answer: end the tradition.
    It would be far better to end the troublemakers.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    Quote Originally Posted by NapRover View Post
    People can do what they want.
    It costs so much to take family out to any college or pro sport event. They build stadiums that are full of high-dollar luxury suites. It's so strange that they'd risk alienating their base by allowing what most people consider disrespect of the country, military, police, etc. judging from social media responses I've seen, there's an overwhelming backlash. Good luck without a dime of my money.
    The whole stadium thing is and was blackmail don't you think?

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