There's One Tiny Business Behind All Those Giant Flags
by Emma Baccellieri from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#35J31)

It has become impossible to ignore the American flag at sporting events. This is, in part, because of the increasingly elaborate performance that is the pregame ceremony for the national anthem, in which the flag works as symbolic shorthand to represent whatever you want it to about the country, the troops, and only"