To take it a step farther than I did in my last post: Why are progressives now intent on subsidizing professional sports? There's been a huge push for decades to stop subsidizing sports, both at the professional and collegiate level. Sports which can survive based on the product they provide (entertainment) can survive, those that can't can fail, same as any other private business. No matter what year you look at it, lengthy articles have been written for decades that're highly critical of sports subsidies. Here's just one example of such an article: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/12/how-taxpayers-keep-the-nfl-rich/418971/

Quite frankly, this is one area where I'm in perfect agreement with the long-established progressive opinion. Professional sports leagues are private businesses. There is no reason whatsoever they should be receiving any subsidies at all. There is no reason the Pentagon should be paying millions to incentivize the leagues to honor veterans and the national guard. There is no reason why cities should foot the bill for anything related to professional sports.

The problem with the republican backed bill in Texas isn't that it's attempting to hold private businesses to a standard of civic pride in order to retain public subsidies. The problem with the republican backed bill is that it allows the public subsidies of these private companies to continue at all. The NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, etc. will all do just fine if they have to pay their own way. Why should citizens who don't care about sports be forced to fund these private institutions they care nothing about?

Capitalism and the national anthem can exist without each other.

no corporate profits of a capitalist system without a moral framework can not exist with a national anthem. rofl, man now i see why you are DUHCrossbones. you are dumb AF

Do all of the pro Texas sport teams own their respective arenas or were they built fully or in-part with tax dollars? If tax funded, seems reasonable.

wut?
LOL so the moral framework of our country is based on the number of times the anthem is played before sporting event?
You think capitalism is morally sound.. LMFAO

its more morally sound than socialism, but you don't have deep thought at all

also, playing the anthem at sporting even is part of the framework, you clown.

I didn't compare anything.
You are the one trying to make economics=morality=anthem
not me

it's intertwined.... again nothing but a sheer display of lack of depth from you

you clearly are just a bitter man

yea that's it you have it all figured out.
you want anthems at a football game makes you a deep thinker.
got it.

God kicking Satan out of heaven was the original cancel culture.