re: Do you care if your coach does this if you win a natty

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With that being said, requiring specific participation goes against the spirit of the freedoms said event supposedly celebrates.

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If anything it honors duty and commitment. Putting duty above personal feelings. It cost you nothing to be present and standing during the anthem but by choosing not to (and UofSC choose not to all tournament) it alienates and divides the patrons and reflects poorly on the event. It’s disrespectful to the hosts and sponsors. It’s selfish and gains you nothing while harming the event.

I despise what this country has become and am the biggest proponent of Balkanization on the tigerdroppings family of message boards but I stand as I am able for the anthem. I have stood for the anthem of a country that expelled me and my family (thanks jimmy carter) and for countries that I was in with US soldiers and marines actively fighting them. You want to play the game, standing for an anthem, any official anthem is just part of it. I hate Whitney Houston’s butchering of the anthem but stood for 4 years at least 12 times a years while it was played.