This is really cool! I was fourteen when this happened and had forgotten about it until I read about the 30th anniversary in USA Today...

Outfielder Rick Monday of the Chicago Cubs dashes between two men in the Dodger Stadium outfield in Los Angeles, in this April 25, 1976 photo, snatching an American flag the men were about to burn. In honor of the 30th anniversary of his saving the American flag, Monday will be honored Tuesday with a video tribute at Minute Maid Park in Houston. By Jim Roark, Los Angeles Herald Examiner via AP


My hat is off to Rick Monday for that. These two idiots deserved worse than to be humiliated on national TV. It'll have to be enough that thanks to Monday's heroics, they were unseccessful in their treachery. It would have been cool if both teams had charged them in the outfield and beaten them senseless...that would have been a fitting punishment.

It's almost to the point where Americans are shy about open displays of patriotism like Monday's. We're told that it might be off-putting for non-Americans, that we might offend somebody from another country, and that because of America's evil deeds around the world leading to the negative perception abroad, we don't have a reason to be proud of our flag and what it stands for.

What a load!

You might see this tape on Fox News but I guarantee you won't see it on any mainstream news outlet because the MSM sides with the two flag-burners. They don't want you to see Americans defending the flag...it might stir some latent patriotism in you and heaven forbid Americans take pride in their country.