How NFL Flags Are Constructed These Days
You simply can’t have a football game without NFL flags.
To do otherwise will be decidedly un-American!
Okay, never mind that these things are most likely made in China.
Hey, what’s more American than having others do your stuff for you?
So NFL flags are probably produced in China.
Hey, it’s cheap and sufficient for the Sunday game.
Who cares?
Sports transcends politics, right?
Truth be told, those “old-economy” jobs are basically never coming back to the United States – or any other advanced industrialized nation, for that matter.
All things considered, who wants to make a living making NFL flags?
Not the Chinese.
No, really!
Even they don’t really want to do this kind of work forever.
In fact, the authorities over there are already trying hard to steer their economy away from making low-value stuff like flags, shoes, and other simple things.
Indeed, haven’t you recognized that lots of your apparel is coming from places like Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, and even Mauritania?
No joke!
That’s just how things are.
It’s called capitalism.
Businesses will do whatever they can for cash.
And it simply does not make cents – as in dollars and cents – to have American workers, with their lifestyle (as lowered as it is in the 21st Century, to be sure) and needs, making low-value products.
Of course, you can still find companies here in the States creating these products, but then you can have to pay a premium price for them – which, of course, many a patriot does simply on principle alone.
And so the “Made in USA” label can be a proud marker that businesses are eager to exhibit.
After all, what’s more American than free choice?
And so many a football fan will wave their American-made flags with delight, choosing to literally put their money where their mouths are!