#anthem sports

[thekidsarentalright]

literally so funny that fob are so often like. The sports band given how uninvested in sports half the band and their fanbase is. like yeah go ahead and make the gay loser band the sports band why not

[ike-mcswains-mortician]

glenn has a psa for everyone!! :D

(song: seatbelts! by ninja sex party)

(if the quality is bad shhhh no it isn’t❤️)

[scotianostra]

The Yoons want us stop using Flower of Scotland- it must never be allowed to happen.

There is nothing more stirring than this!

#AsOne.

Where else in the world can they put a musician in such a position to get the crowd going like this?

Name another instrument that can make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican, took to Twitter on Sunday afternoon to complain about the Black National Anthem being performed during the Super Bowl.

Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph is slated to perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing," colloquially known as the Black National Anthem, ahead of the Sunday night football game. The song, written more than 100 years ago, emerged as a rallying cry during the civil rights movement, according to the NAACP. The NFL began including the song in its games following the Black Lives Matter protests that occurred during the summer of 2020, but the move has faced backlash from some conservatives.

Boebert became the latest prominent Republican to criticize the National Football League (NFL) over the song's inclusion, which will be performed alongside the "Star-Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful." The GOP lawmaker accused the league of attempting to "divide" Americans by including the Black National Anthem in the performance lineup.

"America only has ONE NATIONAL ANTHEM," she tweeted. "Why is the NFL trying to divide us by playing multiple!? Do football, not wokeness."

Critics argued, however, that Boebert's tweet was more divisive than the inclusion of the performance. Condé Nast editor Luke Zaleski accused Boebert of "gaslighting" viewers.

"The gaslighting is the fact that she's using the concept of unity to divide. She's doing what she's accusing the NFL of. It's a fake grievance contrived to irk and produce the effect of further fracturing society," Zaleski tweeted.

"It's black history month. The song is meaningful to African Americans. It's also a historic game with 2 black quarterbacks, the first time ever. Get over yourself and your ridiculous white grievances. If you don't like it, don't watch. Simple," another Twitter user tweeted on Sunday in response to Boebert.

Other conservatives have previously criticized the NFL over the song. In 2021, Fox News host Sean Hannity decried a performance as an attempt to "inject politics into sports." Several conservative pundits also complained when Vanessa Williams performed the song during a PBS Fourth of July special that same year.

WHAT IS THE BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM?

NAACP leader James Weldon Smith first wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing" in 1900. His brother, John Rosamond Johnson, composed the music for its lyrics, according to the NAACP.

The song was first performed by students at a segregated school in Jacksonville, Florida, to celebrate the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who presided over the emancipation of slaves during the American Civil War, according to the NAACP.

The song became a landmark of African American culture. According to Time magazine, it was performed during meetings in which civil rights leaders planned the Montgomery Bus Boycott and has been quoted in speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Following the 2020 racial protests after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police, the NFL sought to confront what many players have described as systemic racism following years of protests.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told The New York Times in 2021 that the inclusion of the song is "an opportunity to highlight messages that are important to the league, players and personnel and our communities."

"We've seen tremendous work done by our players to make an impact, and we can increase that through the high-visibility platform that the NFL provides," he said.

Newsweek reached out to Boebert's press office for further comment.

[majudgemajudge]

People say I’m jealous, but my kink is watching you ruin your life.

[belle-epochalypse]

How do you have Deaf actors and performers signing the National Anthem during the Superbowl and only cut to them ONCE, for THREE SECONDS during the song?? THAT’S TROY KOTSUR GIVE HIM HIS SCREENTIME

[ssaalexblake]

i couldn’t be american for many reasons but one of them is that if i was subjected to the national anthem as much as you all are i’d flip off any flag in close proximity out of nothing but sheer annoyance and i’ve come to realise your diehard america fangirls (gender neutral) don’t tend to react well to things like that 

[nco05]

ONS WILHELMUS IS STUCK IN MY HEAD NOW, this never happened before

[mochimarner]

a tale old as time young love don't last for life

[abbyanne-sari-sari]

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[the-shy-artisan]

Thanks God of War. I was already an emotional wreck earlier after a heartfelt conversation with my own father, and then you pulled out the big guns.

[iheartliquor]

Lana Del Rey — Song Of Myself | 2013

[toribookworm22]

10 Songs 10 People

Thank you @briannaswords for the tag!!

No pressure tagging: @likegemstone @jolovesfandoms @rsdan @friggjarson @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @regalserpent @sleepyowlwrites @the-orangeauthor @vmccombs & my open tag!

I was already listening to a playlist, so I decided to use the next 10 songs to play. Here's a taste of my Aro Aro Aro playlist: 💚🤍🖤

1. Wake Me Up by Avicii

2. I Can't Handle Change by Roar

3. I Don't Wanna Be In Love (Dance Floor Anthem) by Good Charlotte

4. these are my friends by lovelytheband

5. Sports by Beach Bunny

6. Against the Kitchen Floor by Will Wood

7. Never Been In Love by Will Jay

8. I Don't Love by Have A Nice Life

9. I'm Just Your Problem by Adventure Time (feat. Olivia Olsen)

10. Cute Without You by Emma Blackery

[millipedish]

It pleases me to no end to see people come to the fraggle fandom via the 2022 show and explore the 1986 show after. It's so lovely.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Football (Soccer) isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

- Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalisation

The printed illustrated sheet music cover for ‘The National Football Song’, words by L. Myers and music by C.A. Wills. It was published in London by J.A. Mills, ca.1880.

The song celebrates both Association Football and Rugby football and the cover depicts the national star players of the day.

The two types of ball are also illustrated, above and below the flags. Both soccer and rugby developed from the same game but there was such confusion between those who played it as a contact sport and those who didn't that in 1863 there was a meeting of representatives in London to clarify the fundamental rules. It was after this meeting that those who played rugby-style football went their own way, and the Football Association was founded for those who favoured a game that forbade tripping, shin- kicking, and carrying the ball.

In 1871 the Rugby Football Union was founded. One man illustrated here, A.J. Gould, who played for London before returning to his native Wales, is credited as having invented the idea of having four three-quarters in attack and defence.

[eggy-tea]

I’m sure the reason I don’t get it is just that I’m not American, but it is genuinely so weird to me that the singing of the US national anthem so often turns into a showboat performance.