College Football

[sardis]

Eagles couldn't adjust after half-time. Chiefs did, and that's what won it, not the holding call.

I'm not sure i understand having a fly-over a domed stadium. Can the people inside hear it at least?

[Jungle Rat]

The roof was open nit wit. The field was horrible as well. Just a total shitshow.

[Jungle Rat]

[innocentbystander]

Excellent Super Bowl. Attention was paid to the entirety of the game, which is rare for Superbowls.

[Jungle Rat]

Who won?

[Tree]

Terrible superbowl. Never mind the chiefs won their last two games on questionable calls, both teams were slipping all over the field. Not sure how that happens in the biggest sporting event of the year.

[hedge]

Why do they even sing the national anthem at sporting events to begin with?

[eCat]

at one time people took pride in their country and wouldn't question it

[hedge]

But why at sports games? Nobody sings the national anthem before, say, church, or eating dinner, or taking a crap. Why sports? What's the connection b/w the national anthem and local sports teams? I can see it at the Olympics, and I actually don't mind it at other games, just wondering why it was ever done in the first place, but nowhere else besides sports. Does it mean people aren't proud of their country b/c they don't sing the national anthem when they go to the dentist?

[Tree]

Everyone is asking about the holding call and why the field was flooded. Except for Hedge. He wants to know what’s going on with the national anthem.

[hedge]

I already commented on the holding call...

[aTm]

Why do they even sing the national anthem at sporting events to begin with?

Baseball teams started playing the Star Spangled Banner during World War I. The song's popularity as a pre-game patriotic song helped it to officially become the national anthem in 1931. So singing a "national anthem" at sporting events has technically been going on for less time than just singing the Star Spangled Banner before games has...

[aTm]

Fun fact...The Star Spangled Banner was written by a slave owning southerner while Dixie, the de facto anthem of the Confederate States of America was written by a northern abolitionist.

[hedge]

Does part of the National Anthem talk about the death of slaves?

QUESTION:

Does the Star Spangled Banner have an extra verse referring to the killing of slaves?

ANSWER:

Yes, this is true.

That’s the one that reportedly talks about killing slaves talks about killing slaves.

Here’s the exact verse:

Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.

The Smithsonian also says Francis Scott Key was a slaveholder who believed blacks to be quote “a distinct and inferior race of people.”

Open and shut case right? Slaveowner writes a song and it includes a verse about dying slaves equals Star Spangled Bigotry.

Those historians we talked to, the ones who were experts on this time say, that’s not the whole story.

They tell us British forces recruited escaped slaves to fight against the American militia in that war, which to Key, would have made them as much of an enemy as the Brits, and could account for that part of the song.

They also point out, even though Key owned slaves, later in his life he fought to end it, serving as lawyer for many slaves fighting for freedom.

It’s that history that makes the debate over the song complicated.

No matter what the song meant 200 years ago, historians today agreed the song has come to celebrate the sacrifice of all American military heroes during the war -- black and white.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/veri ... -484430099

[hedge]

Here's another fun fact:

According to the website of the Kansas City Chiefs, the team was named for H. Roe Bartle, the mayor of Kansas City in the early 1960s, who was nicknamed “Chief” and played a major role in bringing the Dallas Texans to Kansas City in 1963.

After the team moved from Texas, they were renamed the Kansas City Chiefs.

“While the origin of the team's name has no affiliation with American Indian culture, much of the club's early promotional activities relied heavily on imagery and messaging depicting American Indians in a racially insensitive fashion,” the team's website says. “Over the course of the club's 60-plus-year history, the Chiefs organization has worked to eliminate this offensive imagery and other forms of cultural appropriation in their promotional materials and game-day presentation.”

After establishing an American Indian Community Working Group in 2014, the team banned headdresses and face paint at games and retired the use of Warpaint as an ambassador of the Chiefs, among other things.

[Jungle Rat]

Pussies

[hedge]

For Rat:

[Jungle Rat]

Who the fuck is that clown?

[Jungle Rat]

What do you think?

[Tree]

no