Not really. There isn't enough talent to sing it for each soccer game. It's played before pee wee and high school football games though.133743Hokie wrote:I'll play your snarky game. It isn't played before an 8-10 year old girls soccer game in Montana because no one cares. You may not like that answer, but that's my opinion. No one gives it a thought; no one cares one way or another; and most would think it was pretty ridiculous, if not stupid, to do so.CFB Apologist wrote:OK- let's take it one by one.. the board could use the traffic. I'm serious- let's go...133743Hokie wrote:The ESPN NFL article? Yes I did. And it didn't answer the question at all. It addressed the NFLs position on why we (and the players) should respect the anthem, and I agree. But that isn't the issue I'm raising. Again, why is the anthem played at a football game to start with?Mcl3 Hokie wrote:Did you read the article I posted? It answers your question.
it's not about how one should act or behave when the anthem is played at a sporting event, but why it is played at the sporting event at all. Why are sports "special" in this way over other gatherings?
1. Why isn't the national anthem played before an age 8-10 girls soccer game in Montana? - your thoughts? let's analyze it, figure it out, then move to the next example.. shouldn't take long to cherry pick them all. Why do you think the Montana girls league doesn't play the anthem before girls 8-10 games?
So now, you get to try and answer my question -- again. And it isn't "why do we play the national anthem?", and it isn't "why do we do what we do to show respect when the anthem is played?". Those are all understood and accepted almost universally. It's "why do we play the anthem before professional sporting events?". What makes that setting special, unique, the one that warrants this treatment?
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You have misrepresented my earlier comments, but the resort thing is kind of weird in my humble opinion. Different strokes.USN_Hokie wrote:Yeah, his argument assumes a false premise that it's only done before professional sporting events.CFB Apologist wrote:Please list the "gatherings" one by one and let's discuss them/analyze them133743Hokie wrote:I don't think the question threatens anyone on here. I just think they are confusing "why we respect the anthem and how we should act when it is played" with my question which is "why is it played at all before sporting events and not other gatherings".ip_law-hokie wrote:The very question threatens some on here. I don't know why.133743Hokie wrote: But why does that "unifying ritual" occur only before sporting events? Why not other gatherings? What makes sporting events so special? And if they aren't special, then why then but not at other events? THAT's the question that no one will (or can) answer.
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They could play a recording.awesome guy wrote:Not really. There isn't enough talent to sing it for each soccer game. It's played before pee wee and high school football games though.133743Hokie wrote:I'll play your snarky game. It isn't played before an 8-10 year old girls soccer game in Montana because no one cares. You may not like that answer, but that's my opinion. No one gives it a thought; no one cares one way or another; and most would think it was pretty ridiculous, if not stupid, to do so.CFB Apologist wrote:OK- let's take it one by one.. the board could use the traffic. I'm serious- let's go...133743Hokie wrote:The ESPN NFL article? Yes I did. And it didn't answer the question at all. It addressed the NFLs position on why we (and the players) should respect the anthem, and I agree. But that isn't the issue I'm raising. Again, why is the anthem played at a football game to start with?Mcl3 Hokie wrote:Did you read the article I posted? It answers your question.
it's not about how one should act or behave when the anthem is played at a sporting event, but why it is played at the sporting event at all. Why are sports "special" in this way over other gatherings?
1. Why isn't the national anthem played before an age 8-10 girls soccer game in Montana? - your thoughts? let's analyze it, figure it out, then move to the next example.. shouldn't take long to cherry pick them all. Why do you think the Montana girls league doesn't play the anthem before girls 8-10 games?
So now, you get to try and answer my question -- again. And it isn't "why do we play the national anthem?", and it isn't "why do we do what we do to show respect when the anthem is played?". Those are all understood and accepted almost universally. It's "why do we play the anthem before professional sporting events?". What makes that setting special, unique, the one that warrants this treatment?
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Sureip_law-hokie wrote:They could play a recording.awesome guy wrote:Not really. There isn't enough talent to sing it for each soccer game. It's played before pee wee and high school football games though.133743Hokie wrote:I'll play your snarky game. It isn't played before an 8-10 year old girls soccer game in Montana because no one cares. You may not like that answer, but that's my opinion. No one gives it a thought; no one cares one way or another; and most would think it was pretty ridiculous, if not stupid, to do so.CFB Apologist wrote:OK- let's take it one by one.. the board could use the traffic. I'm serious- let's go...133743Hokie wrote:The ESPN NFL article? Yes I did. And it didn't answer the question at all. It addressed the NFLs position on why we (and the players) should respect the anthem, and I agree. But that isn't the issue I'm raising. Again, why is the anthem played at a football game to start with?Mcl3 Hokie wrote:Did you read the article I posted? It answers your question.
it's not about how one should act or behave when the anthem is played at a sporting event, but why it is played at the sporting event at all. Why are sports "special" in this way over other gatherings?
1. Why isn't the national anthem played before an age 8-10 girls soccer game in Montana? - your thoughts? let's analyze it, figure it out, then move to the next example.. shouldn't take long to cherry pick them all. Why do you think the Montana girls league doesn't play the anthem before girls 8-10 games?
So now, you get to try and answer my question -- again. And it isn't "why do we play the national anthem?", and it isn't "why do we do what we do to show respect when the anthem is played?". Those are all understood and accepted almost universally. It's "why do we play the anthem before professional sporting events?". What makes that setting special, unique, the one that warrants this treatment?
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133743Hokie wrote:I'll play your snarky game. It isn't played before an 8-10 year old girls soccer game in Montana because no one cares. You may not like that answer, but that's my opinion. No one gives it a thought; no one cares one way or another; and most would think it was pretty ridiculous, if not stupid, to do so.CFB Apologist wrote:OK- let's take it one by one.. the board could use the traffic. I'm serious- let's go...133743Hokie wrote:The ESPN NFL article? Yes I did. And it didn't answer the question at all. It addressed the NFLs position on why we (and the players) should respect the anthem, and I agree. But that isn't the issue I'm raising. Again, why is the anthem played at a football game to start with?Mcl3 Hokie wrote:Did you read the article I posted? It answers your question.
it's not about how one should act or behave when the anthem is played at a sporting event, but why it is played at the sporting event at all. Why are sports "special" in this way over other gatherings?
1. Why isn't the national anthem played before an age 8-10 girls soccer game in Montana? - your thoughts? let's analyze it, figure it out, then move to the next example.. shouldn't take long to cherry pick them all. Why do you think the Montana girls league doesn't play the anthem before girls 8-10 games?
So now, you get to try and answer my question -- again. And it isn't "why do we play the national anthem?", and it isn't "why do we do what we do to show respect when the anthem is played?". Those are all understood and accepted almost universally. It's "why do we play the anthem before professional sporting events?". What makes that setting special, unique, the one that warrants this treatment?
Quite simply, viewership. Wait, are you doing a Curb Your Enthusiasm shtick?
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Yeah. Unless that resort is catered to military or something like that, I would find that bizarre.ip_law-hokie wrote:You have misrepresented my earlier comments, but the resort thing is kind of weird in my humble opinion. Different strokes.USN_Hokie wrote:Yeah, his argument assumes a false premise that it's only done before professional sporting events.CFB Apologist wrote:Please list the "gatherings" one by one and let's discuss them/analyze them133743Hokie wrote:I don't think the question threatens anyone on here. I just think they are confusing "why we respect the anthem and how we should act when it is played" with my question which is "why is it played at all before sporting events and not other gatherings".ip_law-hokie wrote:The very question threatens some on here. I don't know why.133743Hokie wrote: But why does that "unifying ritual" occur only before sporting events? Why not other gatherings? What makes sporting events so special? And if they aren't special, then why then but not at other events? THAT's the question that no one will (or can) answer.
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Hell, the resort my family goes to every year raises the flag and does the national anthem every morning before breakfast. Aka "nazism" according to IP.
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The place has been around and doing it for over a hundred years. Tradition is a wonderful thing.ip_law-hokie wrote:You have misrepresented my earlier comments, but the resort thing is kind of weird in my humble opinion. Different strokes.USN_Hokie wrote:Yeah, his argument assumes a false premise that it's only done before professional sporting events.CFB Apologist wrote:Please list the "gatherings" one by one and let's discuss them/analyze them133743Hokie wrote:I don't think the question threatens anyone on here. I just think they are confusing "why we respect the anthem and how we should act when it is played" with my question which is "why is it played at all before sporting events and not other gatherings".ip_law-hokie wrote:The very question threatens some on here. I don't know why.133743Hokie wrote: But why does that "unifying ritual" occur only before sporting events? Why not other gatherings? What makes sporting events so special? And if they aren't special, then why then but not at other events? THAT's the question that no one will (or can) answer.
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That's why you're an unusual.nolanvt wrote: Yeah. Unless that resort is catered to military or something like that, I would find that bizarre.
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