Via-The Blaze
If you ask journalism Professor Kevin Blackistone what he thinks about the special and controversial Northwestern University football jerseys adorned with an American flag, he’ll tell you the country should nix the playing of a “war anthem” before sporting events and that the NFL has bought into the “mythology” of a fallen soldier that once played for the Arizona Cardinals.
Prof. Kevin Blackiston (Source: University of Maryland)
How do we know? Because that’s exactly the rant he went on during a Wednesday afternoon segment of “Around the Horn” on ESPN.
The segment — which features a panel of sports commentators from around the country — was part of the show’s “Buy or Sell” section where guests affirm whether they would like to “buy” things they like or “sell” things they don’t. Host Tony Reali brought up the uniforms and asked each panelist if they would like to “buy” or “sell” them.
Blackstone didn’t hold back.
“I’m going to sell it too…,” Blackistone said, agreeing with a fellow panelist. “And if you sell this along with me you should also be selling the rest of the military symbolism embrace of sports: whether it’s the singing of a war anthem to open every game, whether it’s going to get a hotdog and being able to sign up for the Army at the same time, whether it’s the NFL’s embracing of the mythology of the Pat Tillman story. It’s has been going on in sports since the first National Anthem was played in the World Series back in 1917, and it’s time for people to back away.....
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