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Crash.Override posted:

i'm not 100% sure about right now.. but, in the RECENT past, the ONLY REASON the players are on the field for the national anthem is because they are paid to be on the field for the national anthem.. or , to be more specific, the team collected money from either the national guard or army or some branch of service to do the color-guard and national anthem as kind of an advertisement of the armed services during football games. before this practices was started, very few if any teams were on the field during the national anthem. rather, they came onto the field at its finish and had the coin toss.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/0...-tributes/index.html

The Defense Department paid millions of dollars to pro sports teams to stage patriotic and "heartwarming" tributes at games, according to a congressional report.

 


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