>I think we're overlooking a significant portion of people's experience with
> sports - the concept that sport is a spectator experience that you enjoy
> in
> a stadium seems very middle class. Of all the people watching a particular
> game (including tv and radio) very few are standing for the national
> anthem.
Well, I doubt many are standing in their living rooms, but they're not standing in stadiums? There's mass rejection of the National Anthem? If so, I'm happy to be wrong.
There seem to be a lot of working class people going to games. Hit a Jets game, for instance, and see.
Dennis