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Yukishiro1  Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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Snarf_Igraine posted:
Wrong, at least for baseball, they played the star spangled banner during the 1918 World Series as a tribute to all the military personnel in attendance. They played it at every World Series from that year on and at every season opener. This was all done before it even became recognized as our national anthem by congress in 1931.
But not every game until WWII.
And it's sorta funny you said "no it wasn't becuase of WWII it was because of WWI!" 
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
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Incidentally, this post just proves what I was saying. Baseball fans have become so inured to the national anthem from repeated meaningless performances that they just ignore it and boo the other team during it.  |
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Football you big dummy! 
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
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Hahahaha oh wow you're right. How embarassing.
Contrary to what you might gather from the thread, I do know the 49ers are my hometown football team. We were just discussing baseball and I didn't bother to check back to see what the original story was bout.  |
__Bonk__  Posts: 5,122
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So Paul was booing America?
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vn_nnanji Title: Outpost Music Expert
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You misspelled Yuki!
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Blue_arrow  Posts: 468
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Yukishiro1 posted:
Snarf_Igraine posted:
Wrong, at least for baseball, they played the star spangled banner during the 1918 World Series as a tribute to all the military personnel in attendance. They played it at every World Series from that year on and at every season opener. This was all done before it even became recognized as our national anthem by congress in 1931.
But not every game until WWII.
And it's sorta funny you said "no it wasn't becuase of WWII it was because of WWI!"
It was done quite a bit before WWII is the point which deflates your argument that it was not about tradition. It clearly has been done for over a hundred years, long before the song was even the national anthem. It has been reported done in the 19th century as well. An article below summarizes the relationship that sports and the national anthem have. The song that began in one war, and was popularized during WWI, and even more so in WWII show the relationship Americans have with pride in their country for the sacrifices the soldiers made to make our country great and the competitive American spirit on a different battlefield, the baseball diamond.... this is the tradition that you mock and fail to comprehend because you obviously hate national pride and have stated so before.
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THE FIRST THING to remember is that it's a battle song.
The most memorable lines involve rockets and bombs, and the lesser-known verses conjure "the havoc of war" and "the gloom of the grave."
The second thing to remember? It's a taunt, a lyrical grenade chucked at a defeated opponent. "See that flag still flying, the one you tried to capture?" it famously asks the British. Then it answers: "Scoreboard."
That's why, in a country that loudly lauds actions on the battlefield and the playing field, "The Star-Spangled Banner" and American athletics have a nearly indissoluble marriage. Hatched during one war, institutionalized during another, this song has become so entrenched in our sports identity that it's almost impossible to think of one without the other.
Our nation honors war. Our nation loves sports. Our nation glorifies winning. Our national anthem strikes all three chords at the same time.
http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/6957582/the-history-national-anthem-sports-espn-magazine
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
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So basically what I said: it was began during war to promote patriotic feeling and create an identification between domestic sports and nationalistic feeling.
Thanks for supporting my point for me.  |
vn_nnanji Title: Outpost Music Expert
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1/1/00 12:01am
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And the problem would be.......? 
Other than you that is.
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