O, say, can you see a game without 'The Star-Spangled Banner'?
The most interesting aspect of the Dallas Mavericks omitting “The Star-Spangled Banner” before their home games this season is that it took 13 games before anyone asked them about it.
29 Sunset Missives
Blog/newsletter by David 29 Sunset • 29sunset.com • rss • receive new posts as email newsletter • contactThe most interesting aspect of the Dallas Mavericks omitting “The Star-Spangled Banner” before their home games this season is that it took 13 games before anyone asked them about it.
‘Wishful thinking. Most people will never learn the game of basketball…’
A brief note before we get to the main topic… I’m launching a new project next week, writing about a fictional NBA expansion team called the Pittsburgh Pierogies. You may have come across something similar before, but I’m planning to take it somewhere very different. Read the introduction, and be sure to subscribe to the mailing list so you don’t miss any entries — it’ll be published exclusively via email.
In 2014, Ken Arneson, a baseball blogger I’ve followed for more than a decade and a half, wrote a piece I’ve pondered ever since. Titled “10 Things I Believe About Baseball Without Evidence”, after I read it, I had a distinct feeling that it expressed thoughts I already had but couldn’t articulate, even to myself.
What the Super Bowl means
My earliest Super Bowl memory — one I’m not even sure actually happened — is of going to a party at a family friend’s house in January 1990, for the 49ers-Broncos game. I didn’t care a whit about the game, or the commercials, and I don’t think there were any other kids there other than my toddler brother, so my main memory is of the adults’ mirth growing in proportion to the 49ers’ lead, and that there was a lot of beer.