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TopicCrowd boos when there's no national anthem at softball game, sings it anyway
Pillowpantz
05/27/18 7:47:39 AM
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https://sports.yahoo.com/crowd-boos-theres-no-national-anthem-softball-game-stands-sing-cappella-version-225131766.html

On Friday night, the public address announcer at a high school softball championship game in Fresno, California announced that there would be no national anthem performed prior to the game.

The crowd erupted in boos at the announcement before performing an impromptu a cappella version of the Star-Spangled Banner, The Fresno Bee reports.

Players from Clovis and Buchanan high schools paused their warmups to face an American flag, and the crowd broke into cheers at the end of the rendition, according to the report.
Lack of anthem was protocol for the event schedule

Event coordinator Bob Kayajanian explained the decision to not have an organized rendition of the anthem planned for the game to the Bee.

The national protocol is the first game of the session you have the national anthem, Kayajanian said. The games after that are just played. We got caught (off-guard). Both the teams turned to face the field and they all started singing the national anthem. They started to play some music, and the people took that as the national anthem and they all started singing, which I think is obviously a wonderful thing to show off their patriotism.

We try to follow with what normally gets done. Its all a learning experience for everyone and (going forward) were playing the national anthem at every game.
National debate plays out in local softball game

This rendition of the anthem at a high school softball game warrants attention in the wake of the NFLs decision to allow fines when players and team staff dont stand at attention for the anthem. Its a decision that was influenced by President Donald Trump and applauded publicly by Vice President Mike Pence.

Polling showed that the NFL decision was overwhelmingly approved by NFL fans...


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