Ten years ago the home team wasn't even on the field for the national anthem, and now it's some kind of holy writ. Nonsense. (Do we even need to go into how Francis Scott Key was an avowed white supremacist who advocating the murder of any freed blacks -- that we're asking for players to stand to honor a song written by the man who advocated the murder of many of the players' ancestors..? The third verse of the Star Spangled Banner is usually left out. In that verse Key attacks a slave rebellion and brags of the people murdered during that rebellion... Why don't we stand for that part, hrm?)

This is all such a mug's game to distract people from all the ditches, one after another, this country is being run into. We should be grappling with the fact that the president and vice president are actively trying to sow division in our society while also wrapping themselves in patriotism.