Guess I’m not much of a team player . Can’t say that in all my life I’ve ever watched a football game from beginning to end as it just bores me into insanity and I’ll tell you the same about baseball . Of course other parts of the planet play Cricket with games lasting so long they have to stop in the middle of it for lunch and lunch would probably be pretty interesting .
Neighbor walked by and asked if we saw the game and what did we think and I thought …..
” What game ? ”
” Womens World Cup Soccer ”
The wife told him she watched it and America won and that was the first I heard of what the neighbor explained was a disgusting display of disrespect . Apparently the US team of Women refused to sing the National Anthem at the begining of the game and it sure must have bothered him because he wanted to tell me all about it . Fourteen words between us in fourteen years and he wants to talk about a game he didn’t watch either …. of course , of course thought I as he fumed …. Megyn Kelly .
” Guess I have some catching up to do ” I told him … ” I haven’t seen the Bud Lite commercial and other important stuff yet either ”
Now he did spark a bit of curiosity on my part as it never occurred to me that in a country where no one can make me get vacinated, and many didn’t just on principle, that I might be required to sing the National Anthem as a show of respect to my fellow Americans …. whether they deserve it or not . Should you ever hear my voice you’d heartily agree that any attempt at the National Anthem on my part could be deemed just as disrespectfull to America as smashing windows and doors at the Capitol building while trying to overthrow an election .
So with interest peeked I Googled numerous beginnings of sporting events that traditionally start off with The Star Spangled Banner and what did I see ? Well what I saw each and every time was only one person with a mic singing be it a gathering of MLB NFL or any other group of initials . Not a single player singing though I realize now that other countries teams do sing their National Anthems before the game but I suppose if I feared my family back home would be arrested and tortured if I didn’t I’d take this voice and sing like a canary too.
