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On the evening of 14 November 2011, the NFL's Green Bay Packers hosted the Minnesota Vikings in a football match-up held at Lambeau Field in Green Bay which was televised by ESPN as part of that network's Monday Night Football schedule. As the previous Friday (11 November) had been Veterans Day, the Packers announced they would be staging a number of Veterans Day-themed events before the game and during halftime: Some of those activities, such as the pre-game card stunts in which the stadium crowd spelled out messages including Thank You Veterans and Thank You Military and the unfurling of a large flag on the field during the playing of the national anthem, were captured in the photographs displayed above and audience videos such as the following: Within days of the game, reports (such as the following account from Milwaukee television station WTMJ) began to trickle out expressing disappointment that only spectators present at the game had been able to view the pre-game Veterans Day tribute activities at Lambeau Field, as ESPN did not include them in their telecast: We contacted ESPN to invite them to explain the circumstances behind why the tribute had not been aired, and they sent us the following response: This theme was played upon in a satirical 31 January 2012 Daily Spoof article which posited that the performance of the U.S. national anthem before the upcoming Super Bowl XLVI game would be pre-empted on television by a commercial for Dodge trucks: Some readers who encountered this article out of its original context took it seriously, but as noted in the article's disclaimer, The story above is a satire or parody. It is entirely fictitious. One photograph typically included with this item was not taken on the date of the Veteran's Day-themed events at Lambeau Field, but rather during the season-opening game two months earlier:
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