Until last year, the NFL did not normally broadcast the singing of the Anthem. Now it is one of the highest rated segments of NFL broadcasts.

It looks like the plan for this week is everyone standing with locked arms, including the paying customers in the stands. I'm all for that and wouldn't mind if it became a tradition. Some of my most memorable Jaguar games occurred while locked in the arms of the random fan.

It's not as you might think, you dirty-minded gadabouts. Her husband was there. She was just too big for the seat. And I was the type to require about 98% of my seat space anyway. I squoze in there with my shoulders hunched together as narrow as I could make them. She was at least 4 inches into my seat. After about 30 seconds she said "Uh-uh honey, this ain't gonna work", and put her big arm around me like my own sweet Mother never did. We spent an enjoyable Jaguar victory arm-in-arm, with her husband supplying the peanuts.

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