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The Mavericks are ditching the National Anthem before games. Who’s next?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by wicked, Feb 9, 2021.

  1. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Cuban should claim he has a sincerely held religious belief that it’s sacrilegious to play a song before a game. Watch the flailing by the GOP.
     
  2. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Or before pro wrestling matches.

     
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  3. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Also bubble hockey games.
     
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  4. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Ah, Shotglass
     
  5. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Most people do like it, and accept the appropriateness of protesting during it. It’s just fashionable for about 13% of the country, at the moment, to say they don’t it should be played at all, and a lot of those people fancy themselves more citizens of the world, who can pick and choose political and cultural ideas as they please, rather than acting as people who live in a place and a time.

    Some of them are very rich. They’ll be able to afford to live wherever they please whenever this nation turns in on itself with self hatred, as it is at the moment. Mark Cuban included.
     
  6. Mngwa

    Mngwa Well-Known Member

  7. Splendid Splinter

    Splendid Splinter Well-Known Member

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  8. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    So those who oppose the anthem aren’t real Americans?
     
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  9. TwoGloves

    TwoGloves Well-Known Member

    America The Beautiful should be the national anthem.
     
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  10. Flip Wilson

    Flip Wilson Well-Known Member

    Only when the recorded version by Ray Charles is played.

     
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  11. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

     
  12. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Are you under the impression that the national anthem protest is related to the words in the song?

    Any "national anthem" is going to be protested for the sake of the protest.
     
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