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I love the anthem. I think it's great. I also like (aside from Rosanne Barr's) when people try to do their own interpretations. Sure some of them stink, but if people didn't experiment, you'd never have Marvin Gaye in the greatest rendition of the song perhaps ever.
My pet peeve with the anthem, though, is that I'm not really sure I understand why we have to start all sporting events with it. It seems very silly to me that the only place most people hear it is before sporting contests almost always (other than occasionally in hockey and very ocassionally in baseball and basketball) between two domestic teams.
It almost cheapens it a little -- I can think of so many places where it should be played and is not, yet we all think it fits at sporting events. Weird is all.
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