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ShatteredElysium posted...

I still don't understand why the national anthem is played before every game anyway. I understand it being played before every national team game (I.e. when the USA plays whoever) but why is it played before every normal sports game?

Also how many people in bars or at home stand for the anthem before games? It's the vast minority who stand in that situation. Yet I bet those same people who don't stand complain about the players not standing.

In a bar you aren't in vicinity of the real flag.

You are watching it on a screen. I used to do so for NASCAR races till about a decade ago, and that was the reason I stopped unless I was there or around an actual flag.