The Heritage talks about the matter of the American military paying sports team for promotions such as walking the flag across the field before game, letting a soldier take the first pitch, and more. They are trying to debate if this is wrong to do or not.
Sports teams and the military are like best friends, there is stuff that team owners know that normal citizens like us don’t know about. People say that the military paying the teams to be apart of the game as a way to get “sponsored” by the team is foul to do. The military sees it as a promotion of patriotism and the sport teams sees it as business. So does this make it right? Is this a form of corruption? Some say the military shouldn’t have to pay to hold their flag across the field. Some think that the military should have no part of the ball games. So who’s right and who’s wrong?
Personally, I believe the military shouldn’t be paying to get advertised on a ball game. There is so much more where that money could go. The military has gave millions and millions of dollars to help sport teams. With those million upon millions dollars we could’ve put that money into school, help people who can’t even afford to eat a meal, and helped with the nations debt. I understand that the military is trying to make more people patriotic and want to join the army, but there’s plenty more ways to do it then spending all this money just to hold a flag up. Also, being involved with military can lead to being tied down to information and not being able to tell anybody. Such as the death of Pat Tillman. A man who disagreed to become the poster child G.I Joe for quitting football to join the military.
The military could’ve done things much different to promote themselves. Such as get more commercials on the tv or the radio, setup more sign up tables at high schools and colleges, and promoted their clothing more publicly. All of this would’ve been much cheaper and less costly then promoting themselves. This making it so they have no tie ins with sport teams and the game can be kept all about the game as it should be
So who is the real patriot? Nobody in this case. The deal between the military and sport teams is solemnly a business deal. A patriotic act is something that comes from the heart not just because you got paid for it. If the teams let soldiers walk with the flag for free and no costs involved, that would’ve been a the real patriotic act. But as people say,” money controls the world.” More money means for more evil and this book shows you that. Are the sport teams wrong for accepting the money? That is an opinion but I believe so. But who wouldn’t want millions of dollars and military back up just to let them be apart of the game?
There are many ins and outs with our government and how they operate. Some people know them all, some people don’t know a single thing. The government just tries to make them look the best while not telling people what they do behind closed doors. Such as spend taxpayers money in non essential ways. I believe the act of paying for this type of promotion is uncalled for and stealing from the taxpayers. The military shouldn’t have to spend this money on promotion when there is bigger problems in the world they should be fighting.
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