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To: Cactus Jack who wrote (50910)4/3/2006 2:02:52 PM
From: elpolvo  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 104202
 
here's a comment from a blogger:

"The tradition of playing the national anthem (US or Canadian) in college and pro sports started in the 1940s to increase patriotism during WWII."

dunno if it's right. there are a lot of interesting tidbits
about the history of the song on wikipedia:

en.wikipedia.org

wikipedia is a cool NNBM application.

-ep

ps-the anthem is playing live on CNN right now in cincinnati