Where the hell is the singing of the National Anthem before the game's on the NCAA Basketball??

WTF.. I recall this before all broadcast sports events when I was growing up.. and just tonight it hits me.. I haven't noticed this at all this year and not sure recalling it last year??

Hog

I heard they were setting up Holiday Tree's instead....

Go - Gators !

Go - Gators ! !

Go - Gators ! ! !

Gators are Goin!!

UCLA Sucks... in this East Meets West MatchUp...

Hog

#2, that would be "upside down" holiday trees.

Hog, I worked as a broadcast engineer for years and have engineered many many many professional sporting events. Typically, from what I have seen they usually do not broadcast the singing of the National Anthem. I know when it was sung at most of the events I engineered we were not on the air at the time. We would go on the air just after the anthem and the beginning of the game. They will jam in a commercial or two any chance they get. Just because you are not seeing it doesn't mean it is not happening.

...Maybe they just don't want to offend the Democrats!

Thanks Erik, You saved me allot of emails today...

I'm pretty PeO'ed about this.. it just hit me last night and I recall many times in the past and reflect back to watching these games in the late 80's early 90's they still played the Anthem for the TV audiences... but I cannot recall when I stopped seeing this on TV??

I think your onto something there HockeyDad LOL

Hog

Hog,

I think you probably are remembering correctly. Back in the 80's I don't think the NCAA games were nearly as popular as they are now. I am sure they did not have nearly as many corporations willing to advertise during the games because of low viewer numbers. Since the whole March madness thing has become so popular to the point that they are pre-empting huge prime-time shows, I am sure the demand for commercial air time has increased dramatically as well. So airing the singing of the national anthem is not "cost-effective" for them. Trust me, if they even think that a time-out is going to go for 1 minute they will jam two :30's in there if they can. It's all about money.........but then.....isn't everything?

I've seen that a couple times this season with the 30's time outs sometimes 3 30's and clip back to the game in progress... when it's a damn good game I'm thinkin WTF?? Arseholes and their commercials... if the game is sucky I just go with the flow LOL

Hog

FIFA has decided to quit allowing National Anthems to be performed before international games between countries (usually, both anthems are played with the host countries played first).

It seems every time our anthem is played people raise a ruckus and a lot of boo's and cat-calls are made.

Dang Canadians!

that one is totally different then what I'm talkin about with the NCAA and basically all sports events that used to broadcast the Anthem before the games...

IMPO, I think that as long as we have our Men and Women in Harm's way (War On Terror) these sporting events can at least go back to playing the Nation Anthem Televised it will make people stop and think about what's going on and are we United or What?

Hog

I totally agree with that Hog. That is one thing I really like about baseball games. Many of the baseball broadcasts (or at least the Yankees anyway) STILL continue broadcasting during the 7th inning stretch for the singing of 'God Bless America'. That is awesome!!! They give up commercial time for that..........so why not the National Anthem?

I don't know Erik.. but now I am back to going to write that email and Ask!

I'll post a follow-up if I get any responses..

Hog

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