A couple of days ago....I saw this news piece....the NFL says that it will play the song widely recognized as the Black national anthem (Lift Every Voice) before every 2021-2022 season game.
Blacks universally agreeing on this 'national anthem'? Well....no.
Likely to draw criticism and physical acts to counter the 'anthem'? I would suggest that some in the stadiums will stand and turn 180 degrees....putting their backs to the field area.
The odds that some will render another song instead? I could see some rendering a rendition of ABBA's 'Money, Money, Money'.....or the Beatles 'It's Been a Hard Day's Night'.
The possibility that some viewers will start the telecast by muting the sound and watching the entire game in silence? That might happen.
The odds that the Latinos/Hispanic announce that they want their 'anthem', that the Chinese community will want their 'anthem' played....that the southern whites will want their 'anthem' played.....that the Boston community will want their 'anthem' played....and so on? I'd give it pretty goods that by the sixth week of this....this issue will arise.
That idea that NFL football will be about football? Gone. Maybe it's not such a bad thing for it to just dissolve away.
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And us Irish will demand the prophetic anthem by Flogging Molly:
* What's Left Of The Flag
https://youtu.be/Trkx9xLb5X8
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I know I will.
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