re: It’s my understanding that no Eagles player kneeled during the National ...

Snowflakes.

Who gives a frick?

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quote: Who gives a frick what anyone does during the national anthem Me and several million other Americans

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This. As a family physician, I can tell you that over 90% of my patients > 50 years old have been boycotting the NFL in response to the above. I’m sure the ratings had to be at least 10-20% less since this began.

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It's a-fricking-mazing how many people don't understand that the national anthem isn't an ode to the military. That has been the most baffling thing to me in the whole kneeling fiasco.

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Well, actually, it was:
During the rainy night, Key had witnessed the bombardment and observed that the fort's smaller "storm flag" continued to fly, but once the shell and Congreve rocket[5] barrage had stopped, he would not know how the battle had turned out until dawn. On the morning of September 14, the storm flag had been lowered and the larger flag had been raised.

During the bombardment, HMS Terror and HMS Meteor provided some of the "bombs bursting in air".
The 15-star, 15-stripe "Star-Spangled Banner" that inspired the poem

Key was inspired by the American victory and the sight of the large American flag flying triumphantly above the fort. This flag, with fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, had been made by Mary Young Pickersgill together with other workers in her home on Baltimore's Pratt Street. The flag later came to be known as the Star-Spangled Banner and is today on display in the National Museum of American History, a treasure of the Smithsonian Institution. It was restored in 1914 by Amelia Fowler, and again in 1998 as part of an ongoing conservation program.

I mean it was thought of and written shortly after the bombardment of an American Fort, describing the feelings of Francis Scott Key as he saw the Flag still waving as our soldiers held out a key position against the British.

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Well, actually, it was:
During the rainy night, Key had witnessed the bombardment and observed that the fort's smaller "storm flag" continued to fly, but once the shell and Congreve rocket[5] barrage had stopped, he would not know how the battle had turned out until dawn. On the morning of September 14, the storm flag had been lowered and the larger flag had been raised.

During the bombardment, HMS Terror and HMS Meteor provided some of the "bombs bursting in air".
The 15-star, 15-stripe "Star-Spangled Banner" that inspired the poem

Key was inspired by the American victory and the sight of the large American flag flying triumphantly above the fort. This flag, with fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, had been made by Mary Young Pickersgill together with other workers in her home on Baltimore's Pratt Street. The flag later came to be known as the Star-Spangled Banner and is today on display in the National Museum of American History, a treasure of the Smithsonian Institution. It was restored in 1914 by Amelia Fowler, and again in 1998 as part of an ongoing conservation program.

I mean it was thought of and written shortly after the bombardment of an American Fort, describing the feelings of Francis Scott Key as he saw the Flag still waving as our soldiers held out a key position against the British.

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I know how and when it was written. It's not about the military. It's about the country. It's an anthem. A national anthem.

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I can tell you that over 90% of my patients > 50 years old have been boycotting the NFL in response to the above.

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Whole bunch of snowflakes.

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I know how and when it was written. It's not about the military. It's about the country. It's an anthem. A national anthem.

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It wasn't written with the intent to be a National Anthem! It was a poem that was written and then set to music. It was written September 14, 1814 and made the National Anthem on March 3, 1931. So, no. It was not written as a National Anthem.

The poem was written in awe of what the military did at Fort McHenry, and the name of the poem was "Defense of Fort McHenry"!

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What about that guy? He signed up to lose those legs so people could do whatever the hell they want during the National Anthem.

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This statement tells me all I ever wanted to know about your lack of character. There were times I thought you might just be a troll having fun.

You are exactly who I feared you were. I feel bad for you and everyone who has to be around you every day.

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Because they are patriotic and think others should be?

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Because they are so upset about something that has nothing to do with the game that they would stop watching something they enjoyed.

But sure, you can throw in the "patriotism" thing as well.

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It's a-fricking-mazing how many people don't understand that the national anthem isn't an ode to the military. That has been the most baffling thing to me in the whole kneeling fiasco.

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You really need to know your history buddy if you think this is true. It is the ultimate Ode to our military and freedom.

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort M'Henry",[2] a poem written on September 14, 1814, by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. Key was inspired by the large American flag, the Star-Spangled Banner, flying triumphantly above the fort during the American victory."

The British told the revolutionary soldiers in Fort Mchenry that the bombing would stop if they lowered the Colonial Flag. The soliders kept that flag up and at the end of all the bombing the flag was still standing. When they went to inspect how that was possible the flag was wedge between 100's of dead soldiers bodies so it could still stand no matter what.

(And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.)

It is indeed sad just how little this generation knows of there history and the sacrifices that were made for this generations freedom. To not honor those sacrifice is a disgrace.