“Everyone stand and remove your caps.”
It is said before every baseball game, every race and every football game. You follow it up by putting your right hand above your heart and sing, or hum, the National Anthem as the music plays.
The song gives you a sense a patriotism. The people around you provide a sense of unity. All of this only gets amplified when it comes to the Olympics. Who wouldn’t want to compete in the Olympics where you could represent your country?
Buffalo Bills wide receiver and Olympic hopeful Marquise Goodwin has the opportunity to make the United States team in the long jump event as he will be at the University of Oregon in Eugene for the US Track and Field Olympic Trials (July 1st-10th).