is the national anthem poll thread closed?

Denmen185

@BoulderDawg said:
The answer is simple. Do away with the National Anthem at all sporting events. It's normally not played for lectures and concerts and things like that.

In most other countries the Anthem is only played before international games and both countries anthems are played.

JoelSidneyKelly

@donm said:

@JoelSidneyKelly said:

@donm said:

@BoulderDawg said:
The answer is simple. Do away with the National Anthem at all sporting events. It's normally not played for lectures and concerts and things like that.

I wonder when the custom of playing the national anthem before games first started?

September 4th, 1918 during the 7th inning stretch of the World Series game between the Red Sox and Cubs at Comiskey Park (the Cubs rented it from the White Sox because Weeghman Park only held 14,000).

Well thanks. A pretty old tradition...almost 100 years old. Interesting. Do you know when the custom of playing it before the game started?

Three days later, when the series moved to Fenway, it was played pre-game. But it wasn't presented at every baseball game following. However, by 1931 (the year Congress acknowledged the Star Spangled Banner) it was a baseball tradition. By 1942 every team played it before every game.

donm

@JoelSidneyKelly said:

@donm said:

@JoelSidneyKelly said:

@donm said:

@BoulderDawg said:
The answer is simple. Do away with the National Anthem at all sporting events. It's normally not played for lectures and concerts and things like that.

I wonder when the custom of playing the national anthem before games first started?

September 4th, 1918 during the 7th inning stretch of the World Series game between the Red Sox and Cubs at Comiskey Park (the Cubs rented it from the White Sox because Weeghman Park only held 14,000).

Well thanks. A pretty old tradition...almost 100 years old. Interesting. Do you know when the custom of playing it before the game started?

Three days later, when the series moved to Fenway, it was played pre-game. But it wasn't presented at every baseball game following. However, by 1931 (the year Congress acknowledged the Star Spangled Banner) it was a baseball tradition.

that's what I'm talking about. Thanks. I love historical type stuff.

JoelSidneyKelly

@donm I have no idea about when it was first used in a football game. I'd be interested to find out.

Palm_City_Dawg

I believe it is played before these athletic contests because, although there is a huge amount of people generally disagreeing with each other in the stands as to who they want to win the game, it is (or should be) a galvanizing moment to show that no matter what our personal disagreements may be, in the final analysis, we are all Americans, and will come together as one when the Nation needs us to.

Much like family... I have five kids who relentlessly give each other grief and, at times, are downright cruel to each other! But I can guarantee, and have definitive proof to back it up, if you mess with one of them, then you have, by default, messed with all five of them; and in that instance, you better bring your "A" game because they are going to do their absolute best to kick your a_s_s!