Posted on 09/25/2017 6:51:36 PM PDT by pboyington
GREAT RANT PING
“The Star Spangled Banner”
Verse Four
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!
No more NFL watching in the boatbums’ house! We’re done with them and will begin to boycott the sponsors who continue to support them.
NASCAR is good. Also try MOTOGP, Superbike and UFC for a good change. We aren’t missing football at all!
Thank you for that verse of the Star Spangled Banner.
Interesting that these guys, to protest racism or whatever, kneel during the song that was written (and selected) by the winning side that abolished slavery.
“So given that history Michael Bennett - by protesting during the Anthem and the stars and stripes....does that mean you are more of a Confederate?”
My daughter wants to get a Confederate flag - mainly just to piss off Liberals. However, being “Yankees” I’m not sure how I feel about her displaying it. With no heritage behind it, and no meaning, it is just a prop and I don’t think it would be proper. Maybe if she studies it more, and can find some deeper meaning of it for herself. (State’s rights, anti big-government, etc.)
If you put all the players in a room and asked them ‘what do they want’...none of them could give you a reasonable answer of which they don’t already have....
This boycott is rather like sanctions....takes a bit of time to get moving before it really BITES HARD!
Except maybe Kaepernick.
“Well....I’d like a job!”
(Heck, the way contracts are today in the NFL, he is still probably getting paid millions a year even without playing!)
In Chicago, the entire Pittsburgh Steelers team, minus former Army Ranger and Bronze Star recipient, Alejandro Villanueva, remained in the locker room, rather than take the field and stand for the National Anthem, under orders from Coach Mike Tomlin. Villanueva was later reprimanded for his actions by Coach Tomlin.Thanks bitt.
From the Sept. 19, 2011 issue of ESPN The Magazine:
THAT STORY BEGINS, as so many tales in modern American sports do, with Babe Ruth. History records various games in which "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played dating from the mid-1800s, but Ruth's last postseason appearances for the Boston Red Sox coincided with the song's first unbreakable bond with the sports world, in 1918. Game 1 of that year's World Series was notable for many reasons...There was also World War I, which blackened everything, including the national pastime. The U.S. had entered the war 17 months earlier, and in that time some 100,000 American soldiers died. Veterans who survived often came home maimed or shell-shocked from encounters with modern warfare's first mechanized mass-killing machines. At home, the public mood was sullen and anxious. The war strained the economy and the workforce, including baseball's. The government began drafting major leaguers for military service that summer and ordered baseball to end the regular season by Labor Day. As a result, the 1918 Series was the lone October Classic played entirely in September.
World War I wasn't the only issue weighing heavily on fans. On Sept. 4, the day before the first game, a bomb ripped through the Chicago Federal Building, killing four people and injuring 30. The Industrial Workers of the World were thought to be behind the attack, a retaliation for the conviction of several IWW members on federal sedition charges...
Although the Cubs festooned the park in as much red, white and blue as possible, the glum crowd in the stands for Game 1 remained nearly silent through most of Ruth's 1-0 shutout victory over Chicago's Hippo Vaughn. Not even the Cubs Claws, the forerunners to Wrigley's Bleacher Bums, could gin up enthusiasm...
With one exception: the seventh-inning stretch. As was common during sporting events, a military band was on hand to play, and while the fans were on their feet, the musicians fired up "The Star-Spangled Banner." They weren't the only active-duty servicemen on the field, though. Red Sox third baseman Fred Thomas was playing the Series while on furlough from the Navy, where he'd been learning seamanship at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Chicago...
Upon hearing the opening notes of Key's song from the military band, Thomas immediately faced the flag and snapped to attention with a military salute. The other players on the field followed suit, in "civilian" fashion, meaning they stood and put their right hands over their hearts. The crowd, already standing, showed its first real signs of life all day, joining in a spontaneous sing-along, haltingly at first, then finishing with flair. The scene made such an impression that The New York Times opened its recap of the game not with a description of the action on the field but with an account of the impromptu singing: "First the song was taken up by a few, then others joined, and when the final notes came, a great volume of melody rolled across the field. It was at the very end that the onlookers exploded into thunderous applause and rent the air with a cheer that marked the highest point of the day's enthusiasm."
The Cubs front office realized it had witnessed something unique. For the next two games, it had the band play "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the seventh-inning stretch, to similarly enthusiastic crowds. By Game 3, a bigger crowd of 27,000 was in attendance. Not to be outdone, the Red Sox ratcheted up the pageantry when the Series relocated to Boston for the next three games. At Fenway Park, "The Star-Spangled Banner" moved from the seventh-inning stretch to the pregame festivities, and the team coupled the playing of the song with the introduction of wounded soldiers who had received free tickets. Like the Chicago fans, the normally reserved Boston crowd erupted for the pregame anthem and the hobbled heroes. As the Tribune wrote of the wounded soldiers at Game 6, "[T]heir entrance on crutches supported by their comrades evoked louder cheers than anything the athletes did on the diamond..."
Still, the Series' most enduring legacy belongs to a song. Other major league teams noticed the popular reaction to "The Star-Spangled Banner" in 1918, and over the next decade it became standard for World Series and holiday games. In subsequent years, through subsequent wars, it grew into the daily institution we know today...
Congress didn't officially adopt the "The Star-Spangled Banner" until 1931 -- and by that time it was already a baseball tradition steeped in wartime patriotism. Thanks to a brass band, some fickle fans and a player who snapped to attention on a somber day in September, the old battle ballad was the national pastime's anthem more than a decade before it was the nation's.
-PJ
Super!
History OF the Song..
Thanks.
Thanks for posting!
Yep.
>>Will we kneel like Jerry Jones? Or will we stand like the Donald?
#WE_STAND!
Don't tell me, let me guess. First word starts with the letter "F" and the second starts with "Y."
Would like to see/hear Mike Ditka’s take on this ???
The teams have violated rules regarding actions such as protests, wearing of unauthorized apparel (Hands Up Don't Shoot T's) etc. but disallowed the Dallas Cowboys from wearing decals on their helmets honoring five slain cops.
The NFL rule book makes no mention of the national anthem. But the game operations manual does.
Here's what the game operations manual says regarding the national anthem, according to an NFL spokesperson:
The National Anthem must be played prior to every NFL game, and all players must be on the sideline for the National Anthem.
During the National Anthem, players on the field and bench area should stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand, and refrain from talking. The home team should ensure that the American flag is in good condition. It should be pointed out to players and coaches that we continue to be judged by the public in this area of respect for the flag and our country. Failure to be on the field by the start of the National Anthem may result in discipline, such as fines, suspensions, and/or the forfeiture of draft choice(s) for violations of the above, including first offenses. (TIME sports) In any event, those NFL players and teams totally disrespected our country and Flag.
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