I respectfully disagree. I don't watch sports or TV. I believe that sports are a distraction and TV is programming. I believe that the powers that be would like nothing more than for you to sit back and watch your football game without controversy. Because even the smallest amount of controversy require thinking. The question is, how can overpaid celebrities ( and remember, they can only get paid what the people believe their are worth.) solve the problem of people being killed in the streets. People are being killed because they are out of touch, another way of saying that would be a lack of consciousness. There are many people who still believe that this is the land of the brave and the home of the free and those who are called black all came over on slave ships. Not one of those beliefs are accurate.. The problems in this country is so deep that you have to go to the root identify them. And the star spangled banner is deeply connected to the root. If your interested in that history, you can find it here.

http://theroot.com/star-spangled-bigotry-the-hidden-racist-history-of-the-1790855893

My point is people need to deprogrammed and you cant deprogram if your unconscious. The only way to deprogram is to raise the issue up from the subconscious to the conscious. Having said that, I present this also for your edification.
http://geneticmemory.org/index.php/wu-files/274-never-forget