I'm a Baltimore Orioles fan. During the National Anthem our fan base will stress and yell out the O in O say, does that star spangled banner yet wave.
You guys think this is okay or disrespectful? My brother is an Air Force vet and doesn't like it. I don't have a problem with it. I've heard that Braves fan highlight the word Brave.
In literal terms it's a bastardization of the national anthem yes. But it's one various sportsball groups have been committing for decades and won't bother getting right for whatever reason. I remember hearing my uncles complaining about people hamming it up singing the national anthem in the 80s. I remember seeing various singers or celebrities trying to bebop it in the 90s. I gave up on sports around then for various reasons but I highly doubt it stopped.
There hasn't been an America for a long time. Respect, common decency, patriotism are all cracked shells of the past. Why would those people show respect to the flag when they care more about the point spread any given week?
Did you ever have to take the flag down when you were in the military? I got to do it once definitely an honor. When I was young I never would’ve believed sports would turn so political. The Stars shout “stars” when they do the anthem
Yes I had flag detail more than a few times. It was either a solemn and serious event, or treated like a chore. Which depended entirely on which soldiers were present.
I did it during basic and thanked the sergeant, he seemed surprised I thanked him for the opportunity
Yea it’s a really great experience. Made me think about what the ideals of the country are and what it stands for.
Interesting. The Dallas Stars shout “Stars” during the anthem when that word is said. I personally don’t see it as disrespectful. I guess after the kneeling thing it doesn’t seem so bad. Although definitely not as solemn as the anthem on base when the flag is lowered.
Good luck to the Orioles in the second half.
Thanks. They've seem to have hit a lull lately. Hopefully their bats heat up again. They are a good team. How are your Rangers doing?
Had a big lull but won 5 of their last six going into all star break. 5 games behind first place with Seattle and Houston ahead of them. Should be interesting
Hopefully the break doesn't stop their surge.
Maybe there will be a playoff rematch
I feel pretty comfortable with the Os in a series, except the cubs and who else swept them, curse my infernal memory, Cleveland was it Cleveland?
You are funny. Rangers from the republic of Texas.
That was last year. I was talking about this year. We got Burnes this year so in playoffs he should net us one win, at least.
The national anthem at sports games have lost all meaning and symbolism a long time ago, pretending that someone yelling out the O is disrespectful when it’s being sung by a socialist who hates the founding fathers and teams who wipe their asses with taxpayer money is peak irony.
I totally forgot to post this, but did you hear how the girl who sung the National Anthem at the Home Run Derby was drunk? She posted on Instagram after allegedly checking herself into rehab
I was inspired by the previous topic on here bringing up her performance. I thankfully haven't heard anything but snippets of it. Who goes to work drunk and then kind of brags about it the next day?
I can’t find that post at all, would you mind linking it? It was genuinely the worst sports rendition of the Star Spangled Banner of all time, beating out Fergie
https://m.communities.win/c/KotakuInAction2/p/17teNncg8R/
No u are not allowed to have any fun at all while the national anthem is going on because we are a country that hates fun.
People who get hung up on minutiae like that will be the first to demand everyone fall in line behind the sending US troops to Ukraine or Israel, or sign up to be the neighborhood snitch next time there's a lockdown.
Shouting out your sports team or your community or even your Scout troop's name when you're singing the national anthem is the sign of a healthy nation made up of robust communities. It's a signal that you understand what your sense of nationalism is built on. Insisting that the symbolism of the anthem itself needs to be rigidly separated from those things is not a sign of virtue. It's a display of weakness, because it means you think the symbol is just a symbol, supported by nothing of value. It's an empty virtue signal, an appeal to authority, and it betrays a deep insecurity.
Having the same shared traditions matters because they create unity greater than your immediate local area. It's leftist inversion to suggest maintaining a tradition's integrity is a weakness. If it was, then why would one of the first things leftists do is undermine them with "fun" variants/deviations?
I don't agree that shouting out different sports teams while singing the national anthem constitutes different traditions, or that it undermines that tradition's integrity. I think it strengthens it, because it highlights the basis of the sense of nationhood that the anthem provides.