WTH IS WRONG with SOME PEOPLE! This Guy is a Professor, Sad! ** Blackistone said, agreeing with a fellow panelist. “And 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 embracing of the mythology of the Pat Tillman story. It’s 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.” Tillman is the former Arizona Cardinals safety who left the NFL after 9/11 to become an Army Ranger and was killed in a friendly fire incident. “But there’s a difference, though, between calling a football game a ‘battle’ and singing the National Anthem before a game,” Reali fired back. “You are conflating a war anthem with a simple game,” Blackistone reiterated with emphasis. “And when you have military flyovers and all the other military symbolism that goes on in sports, I think you’ve got a problem.” He received no points from Reali for his comments (although he did go on to “win” the game) theblaze/stories/2013/11/06/espn-panelist-and-prof-unloads-on-war-anthem-being-played-before-sporting-events-and-says-nfl-has-bought-into-mythology-of-popular-fallen-soldier/
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