ESPN Analyst: 'Star Spangled
Banner' a 'War Anthem,' Shouldn't Be Played Before Games
by Ben Shapiro 7 Nov 2013, 8:05 AM
PDT
On ESPN’s Around the Horn,
frequent guest Kevin Blackistone of the Dallas Morning News said that football
games should not include the singing of the national anthem beforehand, as that
added to the “military symbolism.” He actually called the Star-Spangled Banner
a “war anthem.”
Blackistone was addressing
controversy over Northwestern
University’s
American flag-themed football uniforms, designed to raise money for the Wounded
Warriors Project. In a show segment titled “Buy or Sell,” Blackistone said that
he would “sell” the uniforms:
I'm going to sell it for the same
reasons. If you sell this along with me, you should also be selling the rest of
the military symbolism embrace of sports. Whether it’s the singing of a war
anthem to open every game. Whether it’s going to get a hotdog and being able to
sign up for the Army at the same time. Whether it’s the NFL's embrace of the mythology of the Pat Tillman story. It has
been going on in sports since the first national anthem was played in the World
Series back in 1917. And it’s time for people to back away.
When prompted by host Tony Reali
about the difference between “calling a football game a ‘battle,’ right, and
singing the national anthem before a game,” Blackistone shot back, “You are
conflating a war anthem with a simple game. When you have military flyovers and
the military symbolism that goes on in sports, I think you’ve got a problem.”
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