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Originally Posted by FishermanTim
I was more surprised to see how many US athletes DIDN'T sing the national anthem along with the music!
I figure that if an athlete, ANY athlete, dedicates 4 years of their life in the pursuit of Olympic gold and they succeed, they are entitled to a little bragging leeway.
Now if we were talking about highly overpaid sports brats, it would be a different story....
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Maybe most of them can't sing it? I sure as hell can't.
There are like 5 people out of 300 million Americans, who aren't trained singers, who can sing the damn thing and stay on key.
Don't you cringe when you're at Fenway and everyone in the section have their voices crack on "Red Glaaaaaarrrre?
It's an old English drinking song (To Anachrion in Heaven) and some idiot decided about 150 years ago that it fit the words of Key's poem.
We should have replaced it with America the Beautiful (written by our own Katherine Lee Bates) years ago.
