While they rarely admit as much, we do just watch as a professional singer will sing the national anthem and that often takes for granted that we don't get to experience that joy or bravery anymore. We get to stand and wait to go back to the game and not do any work.  Peter Seeger observes that we as a group at certain events would sing the national anthem together. We would all go through the fear of being put on "blast" and trying to match the notes. But in all doing so, we'd be standing there with each other matching pitches or not, it'd show bravery for a lot of people. Nowadays, we sit and watch while someone else does the singing. Usually a single person. In the second quote, this person agrees with Peter Seeger when he writes, "The rest of simply do what we are going to do for the rest of the game: watch, listen, and enjoy as someone else demonstrates skill and courage." I agree that Peter Seeger has a point, because in my experiences at baseball games, basketball games, football games, etc, we all just stand and watch as someone takes the lead. My experience as a citizen arriving at the games confirms it.