They should never again be considered to sing the national anthem.
It's pretty embarrassing to apologize for essentially saying: I don't care what race you are, your life matters because you are part of the human brotherhood
I agree with the message of All Live Matter, if only to decry the lies and racism of BLM.
That said, the anthem isn't a place for their political activism. Nor is inserting your own views into something you've been explicitly payed/contracted to do otherwise in.
This group should have some punitive action taken against them.
Its embarrassing because getting the honor to sing your country's National Anthem for a large audience in a Special game is something that most people would never get the chance to do.
The one guy ruined the other people's big moment by putting politics in it. I doubt there was any laws broken but a breach of contract was most likely broken.
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The NFL is going to learn one day how to avoid having controversy's during their super bowl halftime.....wait nvm they cant even get the players to stop doing dumb ass shit.
Funny enough if he said, "black lives matters" and was punished, a city in Canada would be burned to the ground tonight.
All Lives Matter = Wildly Inappropriate
Black Lives Matter = Wildly Inappropriate
Blue Lives Matter = Wildly Inappropriate
No Lives Matter = Wildly Inappropriate
You don't take the National Anthem of your country which you have been hired to perform at a Major Event and then twist it to serve up your own Political Agenda. I don't care what the message is...it's not the time for that shit.
Canada seems to be a pretty awesome place to live, if this is the kind of problems people there are concerned with.