I really liked the reading of the Declaration by NFL players and personnel before the game. Classy.
I’m sorry. I disliked it. I think it first was Tea Party style pandering crap by Fox, and second and much more importantly, by it’s placement and with the blending of Soldiers and football players reading, it furthers the idea that football players are American “warriors” that should be held in esteem as such. That they are somehow defenders of our freedom. They aren’t and that’s crap.
They are well paid very large boys playing a violent game. I like football myself and am a fan, but we are in two real wars with real soldiers that are really losing their lives. Do something to honor them, great. I loved the medal of honor winner getting a standing ovation, but cut the crap trying to tie the fracking millionaire man children in the NFL to real American soldiers. Attempting to wrap "Great Americans" like Haynesworth, Vick and Roethlisberger in the flag kinda makes me ill.