I don't disagree with what you're saying about the performances, but if anything the kids playing football should be more attentive to the noise coming out of the speakers when its been reworked to fit their demographic.JALLEN wrote:Not only bad singing, although some consider these ahhh, err, uhhhh, performances good singing. Either way, these "free style" ad lib renditions are demeaning and disrespectful as far as I am concerned. Of course, I freely admit to being an old fashioned grump.Taypo wrote:The lack of respect shown the Anthem by a group of ill mannered children is a result of bad singing?JALLEN wrote:I'm confident that at a college football game, the National Anthem was played by a college band, mostly standard arrangements, reasonably competently played.
However, at most sporting events, the undignified, incompetent renditions by even otherwise accomplished musicians has diminished the respect and dignity of this custom. I refuse to be afflicted by these spectacles, which are among the principal uses for the mute button.
After hundreds of these performances, and fewer and fewer of the more dignified ones, it is little wonder that few pay much attention, and respect is in short supply.
Nothing improves upon the arrangement by John Philips Souza played by a military, good college or high school band. No others need apply.
It boils down to a lack of respect IMO. They're being taught that it's OK to be disrespectful to anything patriotic. That's coming from everyone from the President to the news to the classrooms. They play a sport in front of millions as a stepping stone to play a sport in front of 10s of millions, yet dump all over the country that's allowing them that privilege.