23 January, 2006
Please rise…
So I watched (parts of) the AFC and NFC championship games yesterday. I managed to catch the beginnings of both, and as the commentators paused for the national anthem, we got to hear the PA announcer speaking to the crowd. At both games, the announcers asked people to rise and remove their hats. (Well, at the game in Seattle, he asked the “gentlemen” to remove their hats.)
When did we start needing to be told to do that? As kids, didn’t we all go to ball games with grownups who took off their hats and didn’t we learn by watching them and the people around them? Have we forgotten how to show respect for anything anymore?