All my life where we've stood with our hand on our heart while the National anthem was played or sung, so the standing part predates that 2009 in the article. In 1992, I sang with a group that performed it for a Phillies game, and everyone stood.

I was sure I heard it playing while under the bleachers smoking a joint at my High School games.

That was in the early 70's. So we got to do fun things like that.

It caught my eye because I’ve been going to college football games for decades and we’ve always done it. I’m not into pro football, so when I saw the headline I thought: What, they’ve only been doing that for eight years?

The article is about the players standing, not the fans. (Although, to be honest, I have my doubts about the veracity of the entire article.)

...when did ppl start doing it for the national anthem?

was not misconstrued with what the Nazis or other totalitarians were doing

I don't think the Star Spangled banner became the national anthem until the early 1930s. So what did Trumps ancestors do for the first 150+ years since 1776?

Such BS

doing anything with the American flag. Oh, and his mother was a Scottish immigrant.

It's just a steaming pile of BS so he can feel good about himself at the country club, where in his mind, people of color working there are just paid slaves - who should kneel down to him - not some lowly flag.

It's like school prayer that has nothing to do with education. Just don't do it.

jin·go·ism
ˈjiNGɡōˌizəm noun derogatory

extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy.

synonyms: extreme patriotism, chauvinism, extreme nationalism, xenophobia, flag-waving; More

Called for the National Anthem to be played at all games.

"President Herbert Hoover signed a bill into law making "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official anthem of the U.S. in 1931, giving the country a national anthem for the first time.
During the World War II era, with the addition of sound systems that allowed the playing of recorded music at ball games, the performance became standard and moved from the seventh-inning stretch to the beginning of the game, Ferris has said. The tradition spread to football games, too.At the end of the war, after Japan announced it would surrender, NFL Commissioner Elmer Layden called for all of the league's teams to play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at their games, arguing, “The National Anthem should be as much a part of every game as the kick-off. We must not drop it simply because the war is over. We should never forget what it stands for.”"

And even the quoted text indicates that any connection is simply speculation.

sacrifice to elevate the military's authority in this country. Our military is becoming a never-ending challenge to a country that believes in equality and free speech. We have to face off, not just against the military propaganda, but the officers who go through the program believing they're gods.

I know it was 2009 when this practice began in the football fields, but that autocratic belief has a strong racist pattern, in my opinion. If you think about it, the draft during the Vietnam War forced two demographics together. You had young black soldiers who were inducted as privates and you had a higher preponderance of white officers, many who would never have to reevaluate the racist beliefs of superiority that they learned from their red origins. How many of those white officers ever saw minorities as anything but subordinates? Their entire career was reinforced by the visual reminder that their officer's clubs had few minorities eating dinner on the next table over. And when minorities started to show up in force, they only had to deal with them on a one on one basis.

And these are the people who retire into our red Florida communities and people think they're going to make good community leaders? No wonder our red counties are still stuck in the 50s.

Further that this is being pushed by a five time a draft-dodging racist scumbag is more than I can tolerate.