Putting Out the Flags So to Speak

I can't imagine a barroom full of beer sloppy drunk Americans standing en masse and breaking into the national anthem during a football game. American patriotism is cute and icky and the same time; charmingly naive with its yellow ribbons while annoyingly and maybe a in your face spooky(every third house in suburbia puts out a flag year round just for the hell of it). 

I think I learned something about the British national character last night. They are patriotic but it takes a lot of beer and a football match to show it publicly.