“who is the Patriot”

It is clear that many professional sports players make a lot more than the people sacrificing their lives for the our nation. Which is very unfair. The sports teams were charging the military? I could be confused while reading this passage but what? They already make enough. “NFL players often remained in the locker room during the national anthem” says the author. They were supporting the troops. But the troops had to pay them money to do it? “The team charged the National Guard $10,000 for a “promotion to recognize soldiers and their families and provide 12 vendor passes during each four Brewers home games” “The Brewers charged $7,500 for the honor of a service member throwing out the first pitch” These two statements are actually very new information for me. This whole time I thought the sports team were supporting and recognizing the military out of respect and the costs were or would be essentially free. WHY IS THE MILITARY PAYING ORGANIZATIONS TO SHOW TRIBUTE. Am I being wrong if i state that our tax paying dollars do go to the military. Why are they spending so much of our money to show false recognizance. “They were all in on it :NASCAR, MLB, the NBA, the NFL, NHL, MLS, and the NCAA.” “The military was using sports to sell the business of war.” Business of war? what I’m actually confused at this point. Are they trying to recruit people to go into the military? They are not trying to make more money that is for sure they keep giving it to all the sports teams and they are making the good money living easy with their well paid incomes. In this passage the author is trying to put more awareness on what really may be going on behind the scenes. From now on I believe we should all think harder and deeper about who or what may be getting paid where is our money going to? how is it being spent? Reading the paragraph the author sure did open my eyes behind the heart wrenching display of military on the sports fields. It was all paid for by them. They are just making professional sport players more richer. Its very scandalous to me.