And for the ramparts we watched
Why do they play the National Anthem before a sporting event?
Let me know.
I love to go and watch our local college girl’s basketball team. They rock. The atmosphere is ruckus and people bring the noise. Their play is aggressive and fast paced which I can say is ten times more exciting than the colleges’ counterpart men’s team. I went to every home game and took the wife and kids to every one.
You walk into the stadium and the smell of popcorn starts the initial burn of enthusiasm. We move to our seats while the girls are out on the glassy blonde wood floor. Their mirrored reflections dance off the floor and we cheer as they head for the locker room.
A few minutes later they announce, “PLEASE STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM”. I get up and take my hat off. My children and wife all stand and we place our hands over our hearts and we sing along. It never fails, every time I get tears welling up from this show of patriotism/faith. I remember when I was in high school and was a wrestler before each event we would stand and do the National Anthem and even then I got the “heebeejeebees” Like a cold chill of goose bumps that whispers and says, “Pssst, you’re part this whole shebang dude. Cooool.”
And it makes me proud, proud to be an American, but moreover proud to see that so many people come together and stop everything that they are doing and sing one man’s song about a bloody battle fought for the land of the free and the home of the brave. I believe it is so admirable and needed that all people everywhere recognize that we can all come together and be a part of something bigger.
Today, we use the National Anthem in so many settings, but I’ve always wondered how it became something done prior to a sporting event.
Let me know.
I love to go and watch our local college girl’s basketball team. They rock. The atmosphere is ruckus and people bring the noise. Their play is aggressive and fast paced which I can say is ten times more exciting than the colleges’ counterpart men’s team. I went to every home game and took the wife and kids to every one.
You walk into the stadium and the smell of popcorn starts the initial burn of enthusiasm. We move to our seats while the girls are out on the glassy blonde wood floor. Their mirrored reflections dance off the floor and we cheer as they head for the locker room.
A few minutes later they announce, “PLEASE STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM”. I get up and take my hat off. My children and wife all stand and we place our hands over our hearts and we sing along. It never fails, every time I get tears welling up from this show of patriotism/faith. I remember when I was in high school and was a wrestler before each event we would stand and do the National Anthem and even then I got the “heebeejeebees” Like a cold chill of goose bumps that whispers and says, “Pssst, you’re part this whole shebang dude. Cooool.”
And it makes me proud, proud to be an American, but moreover proud to see that so many people come together and stop everything that they are doing and sing one man’s song about a bloody battle fought for the land of the free and the home of the brave. I believe it is so admirable and needed that all people everywhere recognize that we can all come together and be a part of something bigger.
Today, we use the National Anthem in so many settings, but I’ve always wondered how it became something done prior to a sporting event.