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Is this what's holding us back?

Will playing the National Anthem before tournies grow the sport?

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Aim For The Chains said:
Any parents with little kids in school know if they still recite the pledge of allegiance?
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I've taught in 2 different school districts, one in southern Ohio and one in northern Kentucky, and the pledge is said in both. I've been in other systems where it was said over the PA system every morning but few students paid any attention.
 
http://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm

http://history1900s.about.com/od/1930s/qt/The-Star-Spangled-Banner.htm

the pledge and the anthem are actually really interesting. if youre interested you should take some time and learn about the founding fathers and how they created the country and the reason they had for not doing certain things. especially pay attention to Charles Pinckney (not the imposter Madison) and Jefferson, Paine, and Franklin had interesting effects on the outcome as well.

tbh i consider the pledge and anthem to be socialist/militaristic and about as unamerican as it could be. i know thats a minority opinion but its an educated one. but thats also held with the belief that what it means to be american is to uphold the core values of the founding fathers.
 
Psssst. I'll let you in on the secret. If you don't play the sport, you don't care to watch someone else play it. It's just throwing frisbees in the park. Anyone can throw frisbees in the park.

That's what's holding the sport of disc golf back. If you don't play, you don't care.
 
i am a huge critic of my country, America, but when i hear the national anthem i have been known to tear up. it is time to reflect on what this country is all about, and to be humbled by how good we really have it. i think the positivity of the message helps competitors achieve their best, just like i notice how applause will help a performer do better. a mass showing of positivity would change the energy on the course and i guarantee we would see lower scores and people would have a better time.

disc golf is american through and through, its time we embrace it!
 
As far as playing the National Anthem at events, I think it's a good idea.

Will it propel disc golf to national prominence? No.
 
nolangherity said:
i am a huge critic of my country, America, but when i hear the national anthem i have been known to tear up. it is time to reflect on what this country is all about, and to be humbled by how good we really have it. i think the positivity of the message helps competitors achieve their best, just like i notice how applause will help a performer do better. a mass showing of positivity would change the energy on the course and i guarantee we would see lower scores and people would have a better time.

disc golf is american through and through, its time we embrace it!
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what I've noticed about disc golf is that its similar to running in where there is almost universal camaraderie from all levels.

I've run half marathons in NYC, montreal, singapore, manila, and have gone for regular exercise runs in Prague, Machu Piccu, Rio, and Iguazu falls Argentina and no matter what the situation when you see another runner you end up smiling or nodding at each other in approval.

During running races I've ran with total strangers and we end up talking during the race and its just like disc golf when you show up and play a random twosome/threesome/foursome/doubles/tournament with strangers ect... you end up just talking getting to know one another and cheering each other on (seeing your tourney 4some mate hit a huge birdie putt is almost as exciting as hitting your own).

whats holding this sport back isn't national pride. its the # of participants playing. sure there are tons of new disc golf courses being made day by day, but honestly people are still ignorant of what the sport is.

those times I've ran races in other countries they do their respective national anthems before the race, but its the hundreds to thousands of runners, the camaraderie involved, and the people at the finish line cheering you on that makes it such a popular sport for regular people to participate in.

i get the same feeling when playing in my random handicap disc golf league or local tournaments only this time is about 20-100 people involved. the camaraderie and joy of participation is still there though. Just not the sheer numbers.
 
As far as I am concerned we can play all the native players country anthems. More the merrier really-- "DG brining world peace to a country near you"
 
Joe Sixpack: What's this here new fangled sport on ESPN 12?

Billy Bob: Dun kno. Dey ain playni teh anthum tho.

Joe 6P: Rightly said. Let's go watch Tiger ruin his legacy.
 
nolangherity said:
i am a huge critic of my country, America, but when i hear the national anthem i have been known to tear up. it is time to reflect on what this country is all about, and to be humbled by how good we really have it. i think the positivity of the message helps competitors achieve their best, just like i notice how applause will help a performer do better. a mass showing of positivity would change the energy on the course and i guarantee we would see lower scores and people would have a better time.

disc golf is american through and through, its time we embrace it!
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Great post!

If you would have phrased the question as, "should we play the national anthem before tournies?" I think the outcome would have been drastically different. I think we should but I don't think it's holding the sport back.
 
Half the problem is the question of "what's holding DG back?", like it's a ravenous beast fettered with an imaginary force it cannot identify.

Its disc golf, enjoy it. It's not golf, baseball, football, basketball etc. It's a derivative of golf, and always will be, just because we don't have mainstream tv production doesn't mean we can't enjoy it.
 
The SSB was a poem originally and someone decided to add the melody of an Irish limerick to make it a song is what I hear. I think America the Beautiful would make a better anthem. Either way , playing an anthem before a DG event isn't going to get the sport on the front of the sports page unless it's Beyoncé or some other pop star singing it.
 
If you're playing the anthem as a way to try to legitimize your event, you're playing it for the wrong reasons...
 
Tfire25 said:
If you would have phrased the question as, "should we play the national anthem before tournies?" I think the outcome would have been drastically different. I think we should but I don't think it's holding the sport back.
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It's a much more interesting topic if you ask it that way. There's no way it's holding disc golf back from anything, but whether or not it should be played is probably worth discussing.
 
This is not a shot at the OP but it is two separate conversations rolled into one. What is holding disc golf back and should we sing the SSB at events. I don't think it is holding the sport back like I voted but I do think it would be a good idea to sing it.

Whats "holding" it back is it is still a growing sport at 40ish years old. The major sports of baseball, basketball, football, soccer, golf, tennis and hockey were all started before the 1900's with a couple being much older than that. They have a hundred to a thousand years of experience over disc golf.
 
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