"Home of the Vikings" Deemed Disrespectful

It's a school pride thing.

That's getting a bit ridiculous.  At my high school we did the same thing.

as an amendment banning flag-burning...both the anthem and the flag are symbolic representations of actual virtues of our nation, most importantly liberty.  Being able to change the last word of the anthem, or burn the flag in protest are examples of us exercising that liberty, and if we can't do that, then the symbols lose some of their significance.  I can tell you that when I am at Arrowhead (or anywhere else for that matter), I tear up a little when the anthem is sung, but I still yell Chiefs at the end.  And I am not being disrespectful at all.

I find myself worried about this site becoming something other than football and Chiefs related, because of this.  I am not criticizing by any sense the subject being brought up, however I point to all the new names I see that have commented that we do not get to see on a regular basis for regular site posts.

In the other sense I find myself wondering about the ages of everyone who has posted a comment just as a curiosity to relate their thoughts to the time they have grown up in this world.  

I can sit here and tell you many things about our past and our Country since I was raised in the 60's.  On the other hand my daughters who are 16 and 18 can't really tell you much about our Country because it isn't being taught in the schools anymore, especially without the same purpose it was introduced to myself and my classmates.

While I respect anyones right to have free speech, their does come a sense of responsibility with that right. When the argument is presented that all we are doing is changing the last word to the song, we are not disrespecting the anyone one or any tradition, that is wrong in itself.

When the song was adopted by the United States it became a symbol of our pride in our Nation. The same pride we have in our flag.  The same pride we have in our National bird (Eagle). Would you paint the Eagle red just to say it is a "Chief" bird?  Who would that upset? It was done in a manner of free speech.  

I could go on and on because above all of my rights as an American, I love this Country dearly as I do my family, but I took the time to study on why our Country is so great and who and what made this Country that way.

I am not going to take a side on the issue of the song, although I am saddened it cannot be sung proudly by everyone at any venue with the love and respect of why it was written.

Please let's get back to the Chiefs.

I'll sing "God save the Queen" and nothing more!

Vikings has two syllables, Chiefs has one, I might be okay with "Vikes," but it's a stupid mascot and aesthetically lousy move.  They should change their name to the insurgents, after all what were Vikings other than blood-thirsty foreign mercenaries?  It's really only a matter of taste.

Actually, several states have statutes insisting on the proper, complete singing of the anthem, so it's unlikely they'd get a constitutionality ruling before say flag-burning, etc.  That said several states still have laws against sleeping in boxcars and oral sex.  (Surprise bigots, sodomy laws effect you too.  You're breaking the law anytime the missus might give you a knee wobbler).

What's so disturbing is that so many people want to make it an issue of patriotism, wrap themselves in the American flag, and throw around the "brave men and women who gave their lives in defense of this country."  Yes, they should be honored, that's why we have numerous monuments and a holiday in their honor.

Does changing the words to a song detract from that?  Really?  More so than the fact that we are now allies with Vietnam, Germany, Japan, Iraq, Mexico, and England?  Does anyone feel guilty about how much our lives profit from those alliances?  Does anyone have a problem with G.I. Joes or Jessica Simpson wearing an American Flag bikini?  Those don't bother you proud defender of the American service men and women?

What about the brave men and women who risk their lives everyday in law enforcement?  Is that enough for you to declare rap music unpatriotic?  What about every halloween, when there is invariably one group of slutty cops or slutty firegirls?  Do you tell them to go home and think about 9/11 proud defender of the American way?

Kneejerk patriotism and couching one's arguments in the blood of American soldiers is possibly one of, if not the most, dangerous lines of thought prevalent in our society today.

It provides blinders to imperialism and global racism and been the undoing of every great empire from the Romans to the British.

It replaces solemn reverence and thanks with inflammatory rhetoric and puritanical chastisements to the everyday ironies of life, death and society.

From Gaul to India and Pakistan and now Iraq and Afganistan the subterfuge and perversion of the battle drumcall for domestic empowerment has been the undoing, God save the Queen indeed.

amendment right.  The principal obviously doesn't know the U.S. constitution and it sounds like a personal/ego decision.