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As if you needed another reason to hate LA

by Will on May 28, 2009

How arrogant are the Lakers? Thanks for asking.

So arrogant that they feel free to change the lyrics of the national anthem.

Now, fans cheer different parts of the anthem for partisan reasons all over. In Baltimore, they cheer the “Oh” in “Oh, say” because of the Orioles. In Houston , they cheer the rockets’ red glare because of the Rockets. But in Los Angeles  on Wednesday night, singer and actor Tyrese Gibson changed “our flag was still there” to “our Lakers were still there.”

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Will writes from Washington, D.C. (well, Arlington, Virginia). You can reach him at willblogcorrespondence at gmail dot com.

{ 4 comments }

1 Mark Thompson May 28, 2009 at 7:38 am

No he didn’t – really? Please tell me no one in attendance cheered that line. Don’t get me wrong – I’m ok with making changes to the anthem in various ways (I am prepared to brawl with anyone who says Marvin Gaye’s legendary anthem was anything short of magnificent). But…you don’t change the words to analogize a freaking sports team to the flag.

2 Will May 28, 2009 at 7:47 am

Did Gaye actually change any of the lyrics?

But yeah, Tyrese freakin’ Gibson mangling our national anthem for a bunch of jackass Lakers fans is almost too much to bear.

3 cwk May 28, 2009 at 8:45 am

Kansas City Chiefs fans have been changing the anthem to “land of the free, home of the Chiefs” for years. I find it pretty distasteful, and I’m normally not one for symbolic patriotism displays.

4 Mark Thompson May 28, 2009 at 8:58 am

Will – not that I’m aware of, but obviously what he did was not the traditional anthem, either.

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